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Open Thread: Happy Thanksgiving

by: Dean Barker

Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 08:58:37 AM EST


The Poet:
Immigrants

No ship of all that under sail or steam
Have gathered people to us more and more
But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream
Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.

Give thanks. This is a Happy Thanksgiving Open Thread.
Dean Barker :: Open Thread: Happy Thanksgiving
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Pretty much everything (4.00 / 1)
rotten about Villager culture, all in one imbroglio.

Do I live (4.00 / 2)
here?

I don't recognize it.

A picture from Mars feels more familiar to me than that story.


Had a thought today (4.00 / 2)
The Senate special election in Massachusetts is WAY, WAY more important than NY-23 was in November. It's also, as far as I know, the only election in the country right now.

But because a Democratic victory is guaranteed, there is no "referendum" angle.

Why doesn't the opposite angle kick in? The one where a slow news time inflates a story?

Can't the national political press do anything without Glenn Beck or She Who Sells a Book Full of Lies telling them to cover it?


Because the XMas music (0.00 / 0)
is already getting to me:



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