internetfoodassociation.wordpress.com - 11/26/2008
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By Matthew Yglesias
Ever noticed that your favorite dishes from your traditional family Thanksgiving are all sides? And that that one time you had Thanksgiving dinner outside your traditional family gathering the best dishes there were sides? And how when your friends organized a fauxsgiving ...
ourfuture.org - 11/25/2008
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ourfuture.org —
Oh, Lordy. It is that time again. Thursday
is Thanksgiving— the official kickoff event of the 2008...
holiday season. For a lot of progressives, these festivities also mean that we're about to spend more quality time with our conservative relatives over ...
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Talking Turkey: Ten Myths Conservatives Believe About ...
eschatonblog.com - 11/26/2008
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eschatonblog.com —
I've long been puzzled by the turkey backlash.
Get a heritage turkey, cook it on the grill...
with some smoking chips. Yummy!
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I Like Turkey
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The Case Against Turkey
Matthew Yglesias —
... I was going to say that Thanksgiving always leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, but really it’s the bland taste of turkey. The bitterness is purely metaphorical — everyone feels compelled to eat a sub-par bird merely for the sake of tradition. I make the case for overthrowing the monstrous foul. ...
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
... Matthew Yglesias makes the case against turkey, and he's not even a commie pinko vegeterian like me! His argument is based on the fact that turkey doesn't even taste good. ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money —
This is right. Admittedly, traditions being self-justifying is less harmless when it comes to one meal a year as opposed to, say, when Antonin Scalia uses this logic with respect to the 14th Amendment... ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Unqualified Offerings —
As you know, it’s been a contentious week filled with controversy. Yglesias kicked it off by declaring that " Turkey Sucks ." That led to rejoinders from ...
What to make after you get sick of turkey - Part I: Behold the [Pita] Bread
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... for his temerity in making a case against the Big Bird on lefty bloggers' favorite American holiday, I prefer a quieter approach to dashing tradition on the rocks of contemporary reality. ...
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