happy Patriot's Day

the national park service yahoos in concord have cancelled the reenactment at the bridge, but they swear it's not because they're pinching pennies in a difficult budget situation, even though they separately talk about how much money it saves not to be running the big reenactment, and how rough their budget situation remains. (we can do the math, but wouldn't it be nice if all the "patriots" in this country swearing up and down how much they love our troops and all that would notice and/or care about and/or do something about this?)

bernie's funding the pools this summer (kudos to the city manager for that--every kid deserves a splash every summer) so why can't somebody at the park service spring for a few nerds with muskets marching around for an hour down in concord?

fail.