mlk

when i used to work as a technical writer (_not_ a "testicle biter") for radioshack, there was this rather courtly gentleman from arkansas who officed down the hall whose opinion i usedta semi-respect. this one time we were working on mlk day (you only got like three holidays off at radioshack and one of them was easter) and i remember he came in my cubicle and said something about how he couldn't understand why there was a holiday for someone who "was responsible for so many of the problems we have in society today." i asked him what he meant and he said, "you know ... by giving all _those people_ hope." he wasn't being ironic, either. i told him you could say the same thing about lincoln. or jefferson. he must not have been thinking, otherwise he'd surely have pointed out that we don't have a holiday for thomas jefferson.