Groundhog Day
           As we already know, Groundhog Day is the day when the groundhog comes out of his hole to look for his shadow.   If he sees his shadow and returns to his hole, we supposedly get 6 more weeks of winter.  If the day is cloudy and he sees no shadow, he's supposed to take that as a sign of spring and remains above ground.

                Okay, so right there I already have a problem with this.  We all know how unpredictable the weather can be (around here anyway) during the winter.  One day it'll be sunny and warm (and sometimes it'll stay that way for a couple days), and the next day it will snow again.  Therefor, determining whether or not spring will come earlier or later is impossible to be determined by one day's weather.  If the prediction happens to come true, it's coincidence.  That's complaint number one.

                Complaint number two is the fact that tens of thousands of people crowd around to watch.  Now think about this for a minute.. If you were a groundhog (or any other small defenseless animal for that matter) and you came up out of the ground to see tens of thousands of human faces staring at you and snapping pictures, what would you do?  Personally, I would be back underground in no time.  These people took a nice little tradition and turned it into another excuse for commercialism and greed.

                And furthermore, he doesn't even get to decide when to come out for himself!  They don't even allow this poor groundhog to live in the ground like all the other groundhogs.  Look at this thing they keep him in!

               How can they call this a natural tradition?  It's not even as if the groundhog had any choice in the matter.  They claim to "help him out of his winter slumber," but, well what's the point of that?  What's the point of having a specific Groundhog Day if the groundhog would rather be sleeping that day anyway?  They say (in reference to Groundhog Day) "It is the day that the Groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow," when they should be saying "It is the day that the groundhog is shaken from his sleep, ripped from his cage, and exposed to thousands of staring faces."

                Maybe at one time Groundhog Day was a nice, cute little traditional day, but now it's just as bad as all the other commercialistic holidays.
 

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