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The Thanksgiving celebration starts early. My brother arrived from Mississippi last night. I go to a client's this afternoon for food and drink. I meet family and friends at the honky tonk later this afternoon. It's my favorite secular day of the year. I'll drink beer and visit with no fewer than twenty family members, friends, and clients. If I only had a beer for every hand I'll shake.

A great start to the holiday season, but how will Wal-Mart's holiday season start? It looks like the boycott against it is picking up steam. I always thought Wal-Mart was a traditional-family type place. Why did it start subsidizing the gay agenda? Most disappointing. I've always hated shopping there anyway. This is a great excuse to stay away.

Later addendum: I received this email earlier today: "Wal-Mart has announced they 'will no longer make corporate contributions to support or oppose controversial issues unless they directly relate to their ability to serve their customers.'" The American Family Association has asked for the boycott to stop.

Lookin' for some Cliff Clavin material tomorrow? Try this: U.S. turkey production has plunged below levels not seen since 1989. I have no idea whether the site is reliable, but the prose rings of legitimacy.

Also just in time for Thanksgiving: "Researchers have genetically engineered cotton plants that produce toxin-free seeds, potentially unlocking enough nutritional content to feed half a billion people worldwide each year." We'll be soaking cotton in gravy, using cotton stuffing, and eatin' cotton pie.

Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, granted a rare interview. It's pretty interesting, especially if you enjoy Zen-type talk. I found this passage about one of his mental breakdowns pretty humorous:

This is described in the psychiatric canon as catatonic schizophrenia. It is cited in the Zen Buddhist canon as hard enlightenment. I have never insisted on either - in fact I switch back and forth depending on who I am talking to.'

Lots of whures getting pregnant these days: "Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday." Is "whures" kinda harsh? My apologies. Technically, they're concubines.

Interesting interview at National Review Online with the Arab author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror.

Courtesy of the USDA, a Thanksgiving gift from me:

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