Open Thread – One Person’s Folly is Another’s Fortune

Happy Seward’s Day, Alaskans! And for the rest of you, please allow this post to serve as your permission slip to bail out of work early today. Just tell your boss we said it was OK. Seward’s Day is one of those “we’re going to force it to happen on a Monday” holidays that gives many Alaskans a nice three-day weekend, and a special grown-up treat – a day off while the kids are in school! The day commemorates the signing of the Alaska Purchase Treaty, on March 30, 1867. Newspapers at the time called Alaska “nothing but walrus covered…