It’s probably the greatest honor that one can achieve in life: being so popular that a chia pet is created in your likeness.

(Obama has two available – a determined one and a laughing one.  We chose determined because his job is no laughing matter.  These are available for pre-order through amazon.com – just click on the link on our site)

It doesn’t matter if you’re for or against our president, the celebration today has nothing to do with him anyway. The celebration focuses, rather, on the fact that we actually have one. Sure beats some of the people in charge of other countries that we see in the news and he and his family are definitely better looking than most.

We trimmed our holidays over time from Lincoln and Washington birthdays to the streamlined and generic “president’s day” and have given up entirely on the birthday side of the things. After all, who cares when the guy was born, what we care about is what he does, how effective he is, how we all do with him in the lead.

The Dalai Obama hasn’t been in office long enough to tell, but he had posted about 30% attrition in his cabinet posts in less than a month or so; if that were a corporation, many investors would be concerned. His efforts have shifted from crossing the aisle to straddling it, so his conviction is being questioned. And, we still don’t know about the puppy, do we?

So, to all of you with the day off, the Worried Worker salutes you! We should eliminate President’s day altogether and replace it with Tax-Payers day (which would exclude several of Obama’s staff). I’d vote for that.