HAPPY LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY: If you work for the Postal Service I think you get the day off. Lincoln is such a weird and towering figure in our national consciousness, what with the sickle cell anemia and the nutty wife and the personal tragedy and of course the assassination. He also presided over what is supposed to be the event that made America America --the Civil War-- so I guess he's earned his holiday and the penny and the five dollar bill and all that.