Hating Columbus

What did Christopher Columbus do, anyway? He borrowed three boats and sailed across the ocean, with a crew that thought they'd fall off the edge of the Earth, in search of gold and spices. When he landed, he thought he was in Asia--it took Amerigo Vespucci to tell him he had "discoverd" a new continent. As if nobody else would have been able to find the Americas anyway.

But I'm ranting about Columbus primarily because his namesake day (which I had forgotten) foiled my ingenious plan to make a trip to the public library after work today.

In unrelated news, when did my blog get infested with spam comments??