Dr. Helen has up a post about the nightmare of Thanksgiving in the politically-divided extended family unit. Stories, advice, exclamations regarding detested dishes are hereby all solicited.  Oh, and tips on etiquette, of course.  We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the napkin rings.

Mostly unsolicited. But sometimes from royalty. To wit, this, from the proprietor of the third funniest blog in the universe (source: Wizbang People’s Choice Blog Awards, 2007): Dear Mr. Goldstein: I have written a rave review of your performance piece “How To Guarantee That I Will Never Be Offered a Better Job at a Big Name School.” You can read it here: link Take care, Jon Swift http://jonswift.blogspot.com Without having

CNN busted for representing as a regular, undecided “swing voter” a woman who served as the Arkansas Democrats’ director of political affairs. This isn’t the only questioner whose background CNN chose to omit, either. I can give them a pass on another one Dan dug up just because you can’t expect them to know everything about a questioner’s history. But how about a questioner who’s appeared on their own network

After suffering stinging losses to St. Louis over the past couple of years, Detroit has regained its designation as most dangerous US city.

Among the more interesting things that I learned yesterday and today is that linking to someone’s information and expressing some of the things that make that person interesting can be considered stalking. Of course, if that person is Malkin, and it’s all about teh hate, that’s excusable, because if something were to happen to Malkin, then that would be deserved. I’ve also learned that taking an interest in an ex,

An expression of caring Don’t express your intentions.  We’ll tell you what they are. Brooklyn’s Meatiest Blog Civility. My victim. Feminism. Tbogg: A semi-conscious blogger And I would never follow that post up with a second one which implicitly suggests your misdeeds are the equivalent of a mother arrested for neglecting her children, or to the people who allegedly caused a young woman to commit suicide. Where is that suggested? 

Megan’s tormentors Dan Collins

Late in the documentary I Am an Animal, PETA co-founder Alex Pacheco says that PETA founder and president Ingrid Newkirk believes there’s no such thing as bad publicity. If that’s the case, PETA could have used a scathing indictment and not this boring, balanced portrait.I Am an Animal is at once a profile of Newkirk, an historical look a PETA, a contemporary tale of animal activism and a look at