December 30th, 2011–Gone

I love this kind of political calendar wackiness. Like the fact that Russia adopted the Gregorian calendar way later than the rest of the world (the Gregorian calendar being a Catholic plot after all). So the Russian “October Revolution” is now celebrated in November due to the two week discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

Oh, honestly, look it up. I’m not making this stuff up.

So now American Samoa is going to eliminate 12/30/2011. Awesome. Samoa is within 20 miles of the international date line. In 1892 Samoa flipped the other way, trying to align with American time. That year they had July 4th twice.

This year they have decided that they do more trade with Australia, New Zealand and China, than with the US. So they are switching back. To align themselves with those countries they are switching to the other side of the international date line.

So December 30th will be skipped. Bah, who needs it? Let’s go straight to New Year’s Eve. An entire day will not exist for an entire country.

Now, can we just skip Mondays? Please?…