Friday morning roundup

Wait, the people in Norfolk unequivocally believe in climate change? Then why don't they vote in a way that reflects that belief? On a related note, the tea party sets its sights on Virginia. Oh, and someone can't keep her Koreas straight.

The Post on contentious TG dinners, with an excerpt that hit close to home:

"Thanksgiving 2003," says Kori Schake, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution and big sister to Kristina, Michelle Obama's new communications director. The Schake family is so political that Kori's mother once gave her, as a birthday present, three months where she promised not to mention the Israel-Hezbollah war. In 2003, Kori went home to her liberal sister and liberal parents. "I was exhausted. And everyone wanted to talk about Iraq."

Finally Kristina ran interference, saying, "Listen, if you all want Kori to feel like she's at work, then you're achieving that. If you want her to feel like she's among people who love her, then we need to talk about something else."

I have definitely begged my mother to just let things go--sometimes, politics are exhausting even when you agree, and we rarely do. And her aggressive, ad hominem style takes it from exhausting to intolerable.

I had a good Thanksgiving, with friends (and the family of the hostess). I caved and had a dinner roll and pie that a friend had brought (I do cave on very special occasions, and what is TG if not that), and I $hit you not, a few wrinkles have popped up since.

How cool would it be to have women-only metro cars in this capital?