Ben D. Kritz
While some of us—excluding, of course, the unfortunate one-fourth of the Filipino workforce for whom “labor” is another way to say “wishful thinking”—might be enjoying the extra day off today’s Labor Day holiday provides, it is not without a certain appreciation of irony: An official holiday declared by a government which is guilty of abetting most of the exact same sort of excesses that led to the date’s being adopted as “Labor Day” in the first place.