TJ Turns 264 and nobody cares

What don't tell me you didn't notice?

Ok, today's post is all about Thomas Jefferson in honor of his birthday. No, not really but play along anyway. Did anyone notice that it would have been TJ's 264th birthday today? Does anyone care? Probably not, but people certainly care about the king himself, Elvis' birthday Celebration is held every year in Memphis. He would have been 72 this year.

How many times have you heard something like this while driving in the car. "So and So would have turned 83 today". At what point do we stop caring about deceased people's birthdays?

Obviously the most famous of these dates being Dec 25. Will celebrating that birthday ever be out of fashion for the general masses of America? Probably not as long as Christianity is prevalent and there continues to be a holiday related to it.

Of course, I'm not here to bash Christmas, on the contrary I enjoy having a select number of individuals to remember and honor their birthdays or things related to birth. But where do we draw the line?

• Christmas -- OK
• Presidents Day -- OK
• Mother's Day -- OK
• Father's Day -- OK
• GrandParent's Day -- OK
• Kurt Cobain -- Not so Much

In fact, there was even an article dedicated to how not enough people remembered his birthday.

As well it should be. Now, don't get me wrong, I love Nirvana, but don't really need to know when he would have turned 87.

Luckily I found some solace learning that the website http://www.deceasedcelebrities.com/ is for sale, so people must not care that much, but I swear each day on the radio I hear about some rock star who would have been X today.