The New Yorker: The Man Who Invented the Calendar

newyorker:

Shouts & Murmurs: B.J. Novak imagines the origins of the first calendar: http://nyr.kr/17TUC2V

“January 30th—People really hate January and want it to be over. I tried to explain that it’s just a label and that ending it wouldn’t make any difference, but no one got it. So finally I told…

That’s the humour of the New Yorker for. Sad thing is if one guy simply invented the calendar, it wouldn’t be so fu**ed up. Sort of disproves intelligent design: the world is too screwed up to have been designed, much less intelligently.