5 excellent things about 3-day weekends.

1. You don’t feel like your wasting your weekend if you spend most of day straightening up around the house.
2. An afternoon nap is an investment in long-term fun rather than a waste of time.
3. For a few moments, you forget you have a job.
4. You only tend to get a 3-day weekend when there’s [...]

5 things from which our founding fathers should have declared independece.

1. email
2. cell phone/Blackberry
3. talk radio/cable news
4. unnecessary meetings
5. Lifetime Movie Network (isn’t there a limit to how many beautiful women from once popular television programs can be sexually/emotionally/physically threatened by raffishly handsome men who played secondary characters in television cop shows.)

A 24-hour Fourth of July film festival.

1. John Adams (HBO miniseries) – 8 hr. 35 min.
2. Independence Day – 2 hr. 25 min.
3. 1776 – 2 hr. 21 min.
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – 2 hr. 10 min.
5. National Treasure – 2 hr. 11 min.
6. Johnny Tremain – 1 hr. 21. min.
7. Yankee Doodle Dandy – 1 hr. 25 min.
8. [...]