Miller: Remember, remember this fifth of November
Today marks the 404th anniversary of Guy Fawkes Night, perhaps the most perverse of all the holidays. Tonight, celebrating a terrorist’s failure to detonate barrels of gunpowder inside Parliament, people all across the former British Empire, well, detonate gunpowder. Fireworks, bonfires and burning effigies are all par for the course. And while the occasion ostensibly commemorates deliverance from tragedy, anyone who’s seen V for Vendetta knows that the real hero of Guy Fawkes Day isn’t law enforcement — it’s the eponymous holiday’s villain himself.
And why not? For starters, Fawkes...
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By Yale 2008
10:37a.m. on November 9, 2009
Give us our monasteries back!!!
I actually like this article. A smidge over the top with the ole thesaurus, but still enough oomph and snap to make a point.