Columbus

Today is Columbus Day, a state and federal holiday. 

The holiday started in 1792 as an Italian-American heritage celebration in New York. The day was declared a federal holiday in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

There will be no mail delivery today - Postal workers and other government bureaucrats are particularly fond of Columbus because:

• When he set sail, he didn't know where he was going.
• When he got back, he didn't know where he had been.
• He did it all using somebody else's money.

Oh, and somehow, along the way, he also managed to introduce smallpox to the Western Hemisphere.