Happy Thanksgiving! rounup

It's not uncommon to compare Kim Jong-Il and his regime to a tantrum-throwing toddler, but I suggest that we start comparing such toddlers to Kim Jong-Il instead: "No, you cannot have that toy. I will not reward bad behavior, or next thing I know you'll be reprocessing plutonium."

Reactions to opt-out day keep getting better:

“We’ve had 10 years to be desensitized; I’m not sure why people are freaking out now,” said Dr. Janice Manjuck, 50, a physician from San Francisco who was traveling with her husband and 11-year-old son to Norfolk, Va. Dr. Manjuck said she doubted the efficacy of the pat-downs and body scanners, but did not particularly object to them.

“We’re from San Francisco, so we’re used to nudity,” she said.

Per SP, Michelle O.'s anti-obesity campaign is socialist. Would she have said the same about Laura Bush's literacy work? Same principle applies, in theory: an assumption that parents don't know what's best for their kids.

Let's be thankful and stop whining about taxes.

This Thanksgiving morning, I got a phonebook-sized stack of fliers with my morning paper. I doubt I'll shop tomorrow, less out of virtue than out of weariness, and also because I'm shopped out. But I do love Thanksgiving--for the people and the concept, not the consumption (literal and commercial). In any case, let's keep Thanksgiving non-partisan.

Sigh. Even eel is unsustainable now?

I'm ahead of a trend! Sweet potatoes are cool. But I will not be buying mine from ConAgra, thank you, nor defacing them with marshmallows.