Happy Samhain, everyone.

Samhain is the Celtic celebration of summer’s end and the beginning dark days of autumn and winter. Lasting several days, the celebration was seen as a time when the separation between those living and those dead became thin, and sometimes spirits would venture into the land of the living. The living attempted to fool the dead by dressing in costumes and disguises.

In the next few days here in the USA, we have a similar holiday on November 2 during which we select which of the living dead will haunt the halls of congress. During the two years that follow, these evil spirits rob the unwary and play terrible tricks upon the living who voted these fiends into office.
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