Well I worked today and really don’t give a rat’s ass about Columbus, anymore than I care about Pizarro, or Magellan, or any of the rest. Wild adventures. Great accomplishments for their day. But I don’t really get the celebration thing, either. It doesn’t bother me. It’s barely a blip on my radar.
Columbus, Cortez, Pizarro, the whole gang, are fascinating. Must have been a really interesting time in history, what with the new land turning up and the hope of wealth to be had and land to be conquered. Even a bleeding-heart liberal has got to acknowledge what great adventures those were.