absoluteparanoia: We must consume and expand indefinitely!

I'm not sure... Are you talking about the turkey dinner, or shopping on friday?

Thanksgiving is racist. The turkey starts out white then ends up brown.

I'm the most liberal motherfarker here and I'm going to four Thanksgivings.

/Cultural Relativism ftw

SnakeLee: I'm the most liberal motherfarker here and I'm going to four Thanksgivings

damn

And I was proud of myself for working 3 separate Thanksgiving dinners in to one day.

absoluteparanoia: We must consume and expand indefinitely! No balance shall be reached! We shall have dominion over all.

End communication

I'm all for evaluating our consumption as a civilization, but it is just one day a year.

Bunch of turkeys

The hard-core anti-Thanksgiving movement has traditionally been centered around the Native American cause, whence came the term "Thanks-taking."

Nothing make me happier then knowing that people like this will be relegated to shouting from the sidelines for the next four years.

Nothing is ever allowed to change from the way it is now. Everything is perfect exactly as it is, so any changing or adapting with the times will only diminish that perfection and invite anarchy.

Jesus Christ on a cracker.

Thanksgiving is a time when family can come together and biatch about the travel required to get to the home of a person they wouldn't ordinarily have anything to do with, if they weren't related to them.

Why does the NRO hate my therapist?

what_now: Jesus Christ on a cracker.

Thanksgiving is a time when family can come together and biatch about the travel required to get to the home of a person they wouldn't ordinarily have anything to do with, if they weren't related to them.

Why does the NRO hate my therapist?

Yeah, really. All this negativity, criticism, hostility, judgement and anger -- and it's only Monday. WTF is my grandmother supposed to do on Thursday?!

Diogenes: Yeah, really. All this negativity, criticism, hostility, judgement and anger -- and it's only Monday. WTF is my grandmother supposed to do on Thursday?!

I can't wait for my father to pigeon hole my boyfriend and ask him when we're getting married. Maybe my brother and sister in law can get in another fight in the spare bedroom that we can all hear. That will be swell.

/booze.

At least ground hog day is safe.

For now.

bulldg4life: SnakeLee: I'm the most liberal motherfarker here and I'm going to four Thanksgivings

damn

And I was proud of myself for working 3 separate Thanksgiving dinners in to one day.

Oh see you definitely have the win on "Most On Thanksgiving Day." I am going to two on Thanksgiving, one on Friday and one on Saturday.

/I am going to shiat out my body weight on Sunday; I need to remember to bring my book

BigBen: We are doing a hot pot for thanksgiving this year. Gonna be sweet.



Just don't bogart the bird, dude.

SherKhan: He finds a 10% contribution to emissions a dismissible fraction. Let's raise his taxes that dismissible fraction and see how he feels.

Uhhh....What?

So, the theme here is that Americans should feel free to overindulge on Thanksgiving? How is this any different from every other goddamn day of the year?

I could not even read that all the way through. Did this guy make up all that stuff just so he could have something to rant about? Other than the "turkey genocide" thing and general "holiday weight gain" stuff [wtf do people DO that they gain weight because of a few holidays, anyway?] I have never seen these things.

Honestly, I was thinking the article would be about how there's a "war" on Halloween AND Thanksgiving, in that they're both being pushed out of stores in favor of Christmas. A few days before Halloween, it was hard to find Halloween stuff because of all the Xmas crap already filling the stores. But no, just a crazy man angry about something weird.

/has never grasped why people need to eat 18 lbs. of food on Thanksgiving... but don't care if they do.

NeverDrunk23: I don't want to click on anything that says 'NRO,' so I'm going to guess that the author is ranting about completely pointless stupid crap?

Am I close?

Warm...warmer...OMG you're red hot!

I think I'll be sending him some smallpox-infected blankets. He seems fond of the oldies.

serpent_sky: [wtf do people DO that they gain weight because of a few holidays, anyway?]

They spend the time from Halloween to NYE drinking, eating, and indulging. Also, it gets so cold that people aren't outside as much.

I generally gain a pound or too of useless weight over the holidays, but it's the easiest weight in the world to get rid of, because Eggnog is not something I commonly consume.

At this point, I have four Holiday parties I have to go to, from Dec 6-20, already. I assume there will also be an office party for my office, and one for my boyfriends that I will attend, and then my family.

They completely skipped thanksgiving here.
There are Christmas decorations up all over the place already.
There's one guy down the street from me who insists on turning on his Christmas lights on November 1st.

The front page of Sunday's Washington Post Food section tells us that Thanksgiving offers "a real opportunity to eat sustainably."


Animal-rights and vegan groups have traditionally criticized the annual "Turkey genocide."

I'll be wearing this shirt while I think about these well thought out statements.

The NRO had the opportunity to clean house, to be the breeding ground of a new, intellectually honest way to think of conservative politics. It could have really helped the Republican party come up with new ways to connect to voters, rejecting the Rove bullshiat that led them to a historic assbeating.

But, instead, it's choosing to keep up the same hysterical crap it's been churning out for the past several years. So it's useless. At least if I had a paper copy of the National Review, I could wipe my ass with the pages, but I can't do anything with this article. It just stole bandwidth and time from me.

So this guy is pissed that there are people who there who might make some decisions for their Thanksgiving meals based upon ecological considerations? It would seem that to the NRO anything but good old fashioned American excessive waste is an assault on our values.

Dead for Tax Reasons: you can be thankful for and celebrate your abundance of food/money/family/whatever, but you should also consider those who are not as fortunate and how your lifestyle affects others

Socialist!

You know what's more annoying than tofurkey-pushing PETA-types? BS manufactured outrage-pushing columnists. And they are everywhere.

...and they keep trying to fight battles in a war they've lost. Knock it off, assholes, you are far more of a buzzkill than a few whiny hippies.

Makes a lot of sense to me.

What are we celebrating? How we gypped the natives into pretending we were their friends, ate their food and killed them?

And now, across America, every household is expected to eat a bunch of crap they don't need.

Don't even get me started on the turkey industry, where they have to use a baster to inseminate the females because they're bred to be Thanksgiving-sized.

So yeah, there are issues. But eat, drink and be merry so you don't have to think about them!