The Forgotten Month

now is the month of discontent as there are no days to celebrate. You would think the greeting card people could have come up with a reason or some important issue to uphold the celebratory challenged "August" when all other eleven months have something to cheer about. This may well be my feeble attempt to right the wrongs and wrong the wrongers!

Today, August fifth, is National Beer Day. How come I didn't hear of this sooner? There are many reasons to hail "oh August" on her the eighth month that wasn't! Women got the right to vote in August, the last time a nuclear weapon was used (on Nagasaki-the weapon nicknamed "Fat Man") in history, but it is also the first month it was used as well, on Hiroshima when "Little Boy" was dropped and killed many thousands of Asian people because we just couldn't get along and it seemed the only way to stop and end the war that was going on all over the planet. The first transatlantic cable was finished this month and the Social Security Act was signed by our dear Franklin Delano Roosevelt too. Some may even be impressed to know the first Caucasian child was born in the United States in the month of August and gold was first discovered in the Klondikes during this month. The very first oil well was drilled in the US and not in the great state of Texas as most would jump to the conclusion of, but in Pennsylvania-amazingly!

Technically this month was originally the sixth month in the Roman calendar having March as its first month and was aptly named Sextillis by the ancient Romans and was later renamed August in the 9th century to honor Augustus Caesar for a tribute to his reign and is so now in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. There were only ten months in the original Roman calendar prior to the eighth century BC and January and February were added before March at the beginning of that century. And several centuries later in 45BC Julius Caesar gave us the footprint for the calendar we have today. NO other month starts on the same day of the week as August excepting on leap years when February has its "fit." And November ends on the same day of the week as August.

It is amazing the things you find when your ass is tired and you can't sleep and are on a caffeine and sugar overdrive. Tip your hat today for Beer, the Female Vote, the rise and fall of Nuclear destruction and the beginning of depletion of one of today's most precious fossil fuels, oil. I declare the month of August, the Month of Mobe...a time to eat, drink plenty and go out and drive yourself off a cliff taking as many dumbasses and troublemakers you can fit into a Volkswagon! Have fun laddies and lasses...~mobe's love to her all and her all to her loves.