It's President's Day, so class if you'd take your textbook, 'Land of Truth and Liberty'

...and open it to page 57, Franklin Pierce, "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills."

So, you know about Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR and JFK and Reagan and the Bushes and Obama but do you know about Franklin Pierce? He was a President. OK, not a great President but what better time to learn up on our 14th President that by following this link and then emailing Johnny your book reports, the best and or most amusing of which we'll reprint in this very space.

Enjoy Franklin Pierce, one of our more disheveled Presidents!

Since today's a federal holiday, and the interns are nowhere to be found

Johnny's gonna take the day off too. You can't expect him to make the coffee, do the reporting AND do the writing. His interns are slackers, no doubt about it.