﻿ Obiter Dicta: Features   Valentine's Day is Actually a Good
Thing  Staff Writer  February 14th is fast approaching. For
some, this is a wonderful event in which you involve yourself in
an activity where you get to find out precisely how much your
significant other cares about you and/or knows how to read a
calendar so they can actually plan things. For others, it is a
not-so-gentle reminder that romantic comedies are terrible and
that you can, in fact, eat an entire tub of ice cream.  Okay,
I’m sorry. I’m a bit cynical here. I don’t actually hate
Valentine’s Day (which I will avoid abbreviating as VD), partly
because it always follows my birthday but mainly because I think
that Valentine’s Day is an unrealized opportunity.  You see,
people consistently tell me how much they don’t like the
consumerism that Valentine’s Day represents. It seems that an
entire industry has developed around relationships and that
starts juicing the minute February rolls around. Going into
their steroid rage you have florists, re