only in the US, would you take an entire month of summer and not even provide a single damn long weekend. Seriously, only in the US; in Canada, they even invented a holiday just so's you could have one long weekend in August. And of course, just try to find a European country where anybody is at work or even at home during August.

Of course, that doesn't mean anything actually gets done during August; only the worker bees are held to the tyranny of the 2 week annual vacation. Enough people have the luxury of taking time off more or less at will, and management is so inept at arranging for people to cover for each other, that employees just sit at their desks all month despendently posting sour crap to the Fray.

Leave August Alone. Here in Canada we Celebrate August with Holidays & Festivals such as the Civic Holiday (the first Monday in August) and other Cultural Celebrations. It is as good a month as any other. The beating down of August article is a typical U.S. reaction. "Let's blame a month for our boredom and the historical events that are taking place as the summer winds down. Have you run out of things to complain about and have chosen August to pick on? Leave August Alone. I could understand an article about February or even Mondays. Let school kids enjoy what is left of the summer. The tradgedies that happened would have still taken place no matter what the month was called. Any month following July would have had these events engraved in it's history. 9/11 was horrendous but it didn't occur in August. My Dad died in July, that was the worse month for me. I say once again, "Leave August Alone".

June is considered a summer month too (usually pretty warm itself and is generally when school is out), but correct me if I'm wrong -- when has June had a holiday where people get the day off? There is not one "single damn long weekend" in June, either.

Just wondering, sour crap and all (yours was not sour at all).