John McCain and MLK

My best pal John Sidney McCain recently had to apologize for not supporting a national Martin Luther King Day holiday back in the 1980s.

Folks, that was 25 years ago when John was a young old man.

Besides, he has nothing to apologize for. John never had anything against Martin Luther King Jr. It's holidays he hates. There's enough truants out there every day anyway, I say. Why give the kids another day off school?

When the kids are out of school they just spend all day loafing at the mall, wearing their baggy pants around their knees, playing loud BOOM BOOM music from their slow moving cars and messing up the lawn!

The lawn issue is really important right now because MLK day falls smack in the middle of seeding season. If you want a nice lawn in summer you have to be seeding now. Having the kids out of school at this crucial time just wrecks everything.

Besides, didn't we just have President's Day?

In my day we didn't have holidays. You worked every day but Sunday and you spent Sunday in Church, begging God to let you live another day so you can work another week.

The "L" in Martin Luther King Jr. doesn't stand for loafing. It stands for Luther. John Sidney McCain knew that then and he knows that now.