Just like the Fonz... America has jumped the shark.

Okay, I have never seen a more blatant example of political correctness run amok then what is transpiring in the state of Washington. Festivus was a joke on Seinfeld. It was a JOKE, and now it is becoming recognized as a holiday. Maybe the terrorists are right! America needs a pimp slap right across the kisser. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about festivus. Festivus is an annual holiday adapted to modern times by writer Dan O'Keefe and introduced into popular culture by his son Daniel, a scriptwriter for the TV show Seinfeld.[1][2] Although the original O'Keefe Festivus took place in February 1966 as a celebration of O'Keefe's first date with his wife, Deborah,[2] many people now celebrate the holiday on December 23, as depicted on the December 18, 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike," or on other dates in December.[1][3] According to O'Keefe, the name Festivus "just popped into his head."[2] The holiday includes novel practices such as the "Airing of Grievances", in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past year. Also, after the Festivus meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday only ending if the head of the household is actually pinned. These conventions originated with the TV episode. The original holiday featured far more peculiar practices, as detailed in the younger Daniel O'Keefe's book The Real Festivus, which provides a first-person account of an early version of the Festivus holiday as celebrated by the O'Keefe family, and how O'Keefe amended or replaced details of his father's invention to create the Seinfeld episode.[4]
Some people, influenced or inspired by Seinfeld,[2] now celebrate the holiday in varying degrees of seriousness; the spread of Festivus in the real world is chronicled in the book Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us.[5] So shine up the water skis find a lake with a shark and get to jumpin. I am going to get my own holiday recognized...so please send me your suggestions and we will make enough noise, just like these people and get our own started. I am thinking about calling it Shark day. What do you guys think? More to come.
Steven