¡Que tengas un feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Across the USA today, many of our friends and neighbors will celebrate Cinco de Mayo even though many can speak no more Spanish than is used at Chipotle or Taco Bell.

For a lot of us, today is a good reason for a party, and we certainly don't need a second invitation to do that. Except for parts of the American Upper Midwest, the weather should be conducive for frivolity and debauchery (assuming the weather needs to be even remotely pleasant for those of us who will 'observe the holiday').

Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862

It's too bad we north of the border of Mexico don't have a better grasp of our own and our neighbor's history to more fully appreciate the significance of a holiday on calendars other than our own.

-bill kenny