The foregoing is a lament from a fictional real estate lawyer many years ago, when Congress rearranged our national holidays to give citizens three-day holiday weekends, to avoid the disruptions caused by midweek or weekend celebrations of national figures. G. Washington and A. Lincoln suffered a hostile merger in the process, but Thanksgiving and Christmas survived.

So today Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., is commemorated, although he was born on January 15.

Wherefore, The Glasshouse in the District of Columbia, locked down for COVID, is doubly locked today, invoking Rule 25(a)(2),(b).

In consequence whereof, I regret to inform my readers that I, too, am out of action today.