Happy June 23rd!

Editor's Note: The following post has nothing, zero, nada to do with sports. I apologize in advance. It will happen again, but it won't happen often.

As I live in an area that is just a river away from Canada, those of us living in Michigan celebrate our Independence Day with our neighbor's own holiday, Canada Day. It only seems logical as Canada Day is July 1st and, of course, we celebrate the United States' independence on July 4th.

Part of this annual festival is a huge fireworks display. Again, a fairly reasonably proposition. However, in recent years the explosions seem to be getting closer and closer to Flag Day. (June 14th, in case you didn't know.) This year, June 23rd is the day for the big blowout. Now, this seems plain ridiculous.

It's over a week until Canada Day and closer to two weeks until the 4th. Why not have the fireworks on Flag Day? Or August 7th? Or October 16th? None of those are anywhere close to either holiday, either.

Yeah, it's an over-reaction on my part, but shouldn't we "celebrate" the holidays in the same week as they take place? Is that really asking too much? I could see June 30th. Maybe even June 29th depending on how the calendar falls, but we in Metro Detroit are having our Fourth of July celebration on June 23rd?

I'm sorry our nation's founders, and their Canadian counterparts, didn't have the foresight to plan these holidays around our busy schedules. I'm getting really tired of making holiday convenient for our banking industry and to accommodate our hectic lives.

Somehow Adams, Jefferson, Washington and the gang managed to tend to their affairs at home, design a country around a form of government yet unprecedented and fight a war at the same time, but we can't even get a stinking fireworks display within a week of the day we remember their accomplishment?

Thank you for reading my tirade. I will now return to the sports world. Happy June 23rd!