We don't want to allow Columbus Day to go by unremarked. COTTonLINE tips its hat to the intrepid explorer and navigator Samuel Eliot Morison memorialized in Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus.
I, for one, am damned glad old Chris made the crossing. I've visited Europe repeatedly and, while it's pleasant enough to visit, I wouldn't want to call it home.
The niceness of the U.S. is a thought I revisit every time I return after an extended visit abroad - twice this very summer. The other DrC says much the same.
