KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Columbus Day Always Puts Me in a Land-Stealing Mood. “These federal Monday holidays always catch me by surprise because I’ve never had a normal job that got days off like that. However, I have a particular fondness for Columbus Day because it triggers the grievance fetishists on the left. True, it doesn’t take much to trigger them — especially these days — but the ghost of Christopher Columbus has been living rent-free in their heads for a very long time.”