Happy Valentine's Day! Or Not.

Happy Valentine's Day my love kittens!

On the one hand, you have the me's of the world: let's celebrate love! If we can dedicate a day to the fact that a furry woodland creature can predict the weather better than a team of meteorologists then we can dedicate a day to love! I love love no matter if I'm single or taken or some messy place in between! Valentine's Day has literally always been my favorite holiday because my birthday is the 13th and so I thought the world decked itself out in red and pink and hearts and my class threw a party just for me.

And also, Die Hard is out today. So I feel like that makes Valentine's Day 2013 especially hard to hate.

On the other hand, there's the "I hate the corporatization and commercialization of Valentine's Day!" "You can't manufacture real love!" "This is just a ploy to get your money!" "This is a day made up by women so when a man screws it up he has to spend the rest of the year making up for it!

As my friend explained to her grade school class when one of her students came up and said a boy tried to kiss her: "Kissing spreads germs. Germs are how we get sick. Do you like to throw up? No? Then don't kiss anyone."

But no matter who you are, if you hate memes you hate freedom.

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