This is our lives on holiday

Jefferson County District Judge Sheldon Watkins decided that if everyday Alabamians didn't get to take off work Monday to observe Jefferson Davis' birthday -- and they most assuredly didn't -- then he wouldn't either. Good for him.

It should go without saying, of course, that the leader of a bunch of people who seceded to try to maintain slavery doesn't deserve a state holiday in the first place. (Yes, the Civil War was about slavery. If you don't believe it, go read some secessionist documents from that era.) If state employees must take off the first Monday in June, let's rename the thing in honor of D-Day.