The holidays are rough for everyone. The traveling, spending extra money, seeing those relatives that may or may not have touched you when you were little, it’s all a mess and just extra stress that no one needs in these already stressed packed days. So that’s why I’m proposing a holiday truncation.

Being Jewish I am well aware of the excessive holidays and I will be the first to tell you that all of the different holidays are a little overkill. A good number of them to go by the way side, mostly unnoticed and uncelebrated like the Flag Day, Arbor Day, and Columbus Day. Now imagine if more holidays were like them. Imagine if we devalued some of the bigger holidays and all the good it will do. Less travel, less money spent, and less time playing “Which Hole” with Uncle Ernie. It will take away a lot of unneeded stress.

Now it is just a matter of deciding which holidays should stay put and which should join the ranks of Earth Day and President’s Day.

The latest holiday in question; Easter.

I really don’t know about this one. I’m Jewish, I don’t even get this holiday. The Jews kill Jesus, but apparently we didn’t do a very good job because just a few days later he rises from the dead. But, people can’t be all that surprised that he rose from the dead; do you know who his father is? I’m sure he pulled a few strings. However this is my biggest question, after he rises from the dead, what happens? Does he die again? I haven’t seen him around these parts lately. Alls that I know is that he rises from the dead, the rest is kinda fuzzy, did we lose Jesus? Why hasn’t he called? I’m worried sick about him; he doesn’t even have his mittens. I tried calling his father, but he hasn’t returned my calls in the last thousand years or so.