Happy Labor Day!

As another summer come to an end, culturally if not climate-wise, I would like to take a moment to recall that the reason for Labor's Day creation was Grover Cleveland's terror of workers celebrating an actual labor day, for various reasons.

Whatever serious and sober celebrations the laboring classes were expected to hold on this day of rest that Grover had so graciously granted, it is hard to imagine a West Indian carnival as one of them.  Yet at this very moment on my street the soca is blasting, girls are dancing, and rum is flowing.  What more could a working man ask for?