Labor Day is one of those holidays I ordinarily don’t think too much about, except as an excuse for a barbecue and a day off. It has bad associations for me because it always came around the time of the beginning of school in the New York City school system of my youth—thus, the name had special significance; “labor” indeed.

Here’s the history of the holiday. To a certain extent, it’s connected philosophically with International Worker’s Day, which I wrote about here, celebrated in other countries on the first of May.

I hope you all are having a good holiday, wherever you might be.

And here’s how Michael Moore is celebrating.