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(Stupid geology question...the irony being I got a 100% A+ grade in my geology course in 8th grade...)

Speaking of irony, Saturday is one of those Great American Drinking Holidays, Cinco de Mayo, not to be confused with other Great American Drinking Holidays, such as St Patrick's Day and Oktoberfest.

And yet, pretty much the entire planet celebrates today as a holiday in celebration of the worker, except America. If I were charitable, I'd guess that's because America is the Land of Opportunity(TM) where the worker of today has the potential to cross the faint class boundries to be the captain of industry of tomorrow. Or, if I were cynical, I would say that May Day smacks too much of communist rhetoric for the average American to easily celebrate. Most May Days, I straddle the fence and think it's a little of both. When I was a kid in Omaha, May Day was a quasi-pagan fertility holiday where children would sneak around in the morning and leave candy on the doorstep of other children in the neighborhood. By the time we would get back to our house, there would be candy similarly left on ours. If, per chance, we would happen to be caught leaving candy, it was a requirement to shout "Happy May Day" and run away. When we moved from Omaha to Connecticut, we still left candy on doorsteps, but got odd looks from neighborhood kids (and parents), so the tradition died with our midwestern upbringing.