Well, Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and so too, of course, has Black Friday. It seems to me that Black Friday is the most important feast of the American religion of Consumerism. America could create a liturgical calendar around Consumerism’s holy days: Start with Halloween followed by Black Friday; the next would be “The Holidays,” i.e., the month of December; then comes Superbowl Sunday, then Eggs and Bunnies Day, Memorial Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, July 4th, Labor Day. Other feast days might be Newcar Day, the day the new models of automobiles are revealed, or Chic Week, the season of the fashion shows in Paris.

These are some possibilities that come immediately to mind. The point is that I think we should replace the residually Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter, with a series of secular holidays that better reflect who we are as a nation. The economic benefits of this plan are obvious, and tensions that arise from the original meaning of Christmas and Easter could be put to rest.

I’ve been reading about the battle at the U.S.-Mexican border between I.C.E., the U.S. Army and the unarmed migrants. This, finally, is a war we can win. Look at the resources we can bring to this conflict. We have our Wehrmacht, our SA (the Texas “militias”), and our SS (I.C.E.), concentration camps where children can be separated from their migrant parents by way of penalty, and we have additional sites to contain the migrants in America’s for-profit prisons and detention centers. I’m waiting for Trump to escalate the crisis and order our soldiery to open fire on the migrants in a repeat of the Boston Massacre. Trump is being inexorably forced into a corner, and the only way he can get out is to start a war.