February should have more holidays.

The Friday Newsletter has some ideas, too.

February has problems.

It’s cold, or wet, or often both. It’s bleak. It’s boring. It’s the shortest month of the year but also somehow takes the longest time to finish. It’s not even consistent. Every four years it has the gall to stretch things out another day? If the rest of the year is a roller-coaster ride full of ups and downs and twists and turns and thrills and laughs, February is the interminably-slow climb up that first lift hill. You know something’s coming, but you can’t see it yet. You’ve just got to wait.

It’s not great, is what I’m getting at.

My proposal?

February needs more holidays.

Sure, it’s already got a handful. Valentine’s Day is the big fish, of course. Groundhog Day is a fun little novelty. Presidents’ Day? Not a fan, personally, but there’s something we could work with there. I think we can do better though.

First of all, the Super Bowl is stuck in limbo as a pseudo-holiday, and it needs to be formalized. The Monday after the Super Bowl should be an actual holiday, …