It's quiet time now at The Next Hurrah. Pleasantries and kitchen talk, saving our strength for today's Olympics of Gluttony, and the Great Debates to follow.
In a pre-emptive attack on Avian Flu, we have assembled a quail stuffed in a squab, stuffed in a chicken stuffed in a duck, stuffed in a turkey, stuffed in an emu stuffed in an ostrich, sizzling in the virtual oven ... and we've got a pool going on how many hours to give it. The kitchen herbivores are sculpting a competing creation in tofu.
On a sobering note (and it's good to have a sobering note before we hit the cranberry sauce), Wampum reminds us:
The corn that kept the Alden-Standish party alive during the eight weeks they spent on the Cape ... was taken from a Wampanoag granary (Corn Hill). Stealing burial goods was the next logical step ...
Today we give thanks:
- That our Murtha's and our McDermott's are singing from the same page ... a consensus to be cemented further by earnest family discussion all around the nation today.
- For buttered mashed potatoes. (This story may change your outlook forever.)
- That Scott "Dilbert" Adams has started a blog.
- For winds of change, raising hopes that pigs will soon be put to flight and turkeys will relinquish their Presidential Medals of Freedom.
- For Merlot cranberry sauce.
- For good and wise and diverse companions on the blog, and in comments, and in our background cabal (if you only knew!) ... and even in real life.
Happy Thanksgiving! This is an Open Thread.
ew - thank you for your intelligence, insight, analysis, and humor. What a brain.
Posted by: Ardant | November 24, 2005 at 12:53
I give thanks that we have Ron K, and everyone else on this blog, and on others, to keep the civic fermet bubbling along:
Oh, Pamphleteers!
happy turkey day everyone.
Posted by: jonnybutter | November 24, 2005 at 14:48
Did you remember the leopard for pesentation?
Posted by: donna Woodka | November 24, 2005 at 15:43
Thanks Jonny, to be called a pamphleteer in this context is a high compliment.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who comes by to make this place such a joyful endeavor for myself and the rest of our crew.
Posted by: DHinMI | November 24, 2005 at 16:42
Pamphleteers and more. I'm thankful for you all. (Reminds me, I print out articles that I think are especially appropriate and powerful and leave them wherever I go. I've even been known to buy a newspaper and stuff the others with reading material.)
And I'm thankful for practical, kind and compassionate Americans.
Posted by: LindyH | November 24, 2005 at 19:31
I'm thankful for The Next Hurrah, Firedoglake, and critical mass.
Posted by: RadicalFringe | November 24, 2005 at 21:22
Grateful for another bastion of progressive thought and discussion.
Looking forward eagerly to another year of fine posting here at The Next Hurrah.
Posted by: Rayne | November 25, 2005 at 08:00