I was never much into this holiday until I read a very nice and funny quote that went roughly like this:"Guy Fawkes was perhaps the only person in history who went to Parliment with a constructive mission".
After watching our congress piddle and twiddle, with congressmen not showing up for hearings, to watch them make utter fools of themselves in public and private and to see persons take the plunge on behalf of party rather than the electorate to whom they are responsible....well...at the risk of homeland security, Guy is looking better and better.