Brought to you by Bobby Hill:

And I’d use “genocide” or “cultural/mass annihilation” rather than “rape,” Bobby.

*I’ve been pretty blah about Thanksgiving for about 10 years now, because any way you cut it, it is a pretty fucked up “holiday” to be celebrating.  Still, some years I’m all, “yay, food!”  And some years I’m, “yay. genocide.” or “yay, tortured turkeys.”

That being said, I’ll be making mashed cauliflower, stuffed portobella caps (using a stuffing “recipe” that I am 99% pulling out of my ass), roasted potatoes/brussels sprouts/asparagus, and mushroom gravy.  My parents went behind my back and bought pecan pies this year, even though I made a beautiful bourbon-almond pecan pie last year.  Anyway, everyone will eat my food in addition to their turkey/trimmings, and then I’ll be left with no leftovers and a fridge full of turkey that I can’t eat since I’m a vegetarian. *grumble*

via Eric Margolis

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swept into Kabul last week like an angry nanny to give Afghanistan’s delinquent, US-installed leader Hamid Karzai’s a sound spanking for being such a corrupt bad boy. [emphasis added]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??

via MSNBC

Roman Polanski is one step closer to getting out on bail.  The Swiss Criminal Court has accepted $4.5 million to allow Polanski to be transferred to house arrest, which means he’ll be staying here:

instead of in a jail cell where he belongs.  The move can be appealed by the Swiss government within 10 days.  If the tranfer does go through, he’ll be monitored by an electronic bracelet.  Their reasoning for the move:

“The 76-year-old appellant is married and the father of two minors,” the court said as it considered Polanski’s offer of a cash bail secured by his apartment in Paris. “It can be assumed that as a responsible father he will, especially in view of his advanced age, attach greater importance to the financial security of his family than a younger person.”

Disgusting.

Steven R. Gundry: Your “All Natural, Organic, Free-Range Turkey” Never Ate Its Natural Food Or Stepped Outdoors

Nina Sankovitch: Great Women Writers of 2009: Give Thanks

Cake Wrecks: Talkin’ Turkey Tuesday, Too

Ray Hanania: An American Arab Thanksgiving

A Radical Profeminist: With Gratitude to African American Radical Feminists

Daily Tidings: Artistic explorations of Mexico’s African roots

NY Times: Recipes for a Vegan Thanksgiving

BlogHer: Walmart and the Unsustainable Thanksgiving

Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: History Lesson

Evil Slutopia: The War on Thanksgiving?

Resist Racism: Once a year

And finally, my two fave TV Thanksgivings of all time are—of course— from “King of the Hill.”  Here’s a clip from “The Turkey Bomb.”  You’ll see a clip from the other episode tomorrow!

via ONTD: Did W Magazine replace Demi Moore’s body?

If you compare the collar bone and cleavage areas (give or take some lighting), it’s pretty much dead on. WTF?  Psh, and here we thought the Photoshopping was the biggest issue with this cover…

via Washington Post

I missed this last week: the Supreme Court has refused to hear a case regarding trademark protection of the Washington Redskins. Native American activists had been waging this particular battle against the Washington Redskins for 17 years. The Court refused to hear the case based on statute of limitations.

The justices declined without comment to reconsider a lower court’s ruling that the activists waited too long to bring their assertion that the nickname is so racially offensive that it does not deserve trademark protection.

“Obviously, we’re quite pleased; it’s been a long road,” said Robert Raskopf, a lawyer for the team since the suit was first filed in 1992. “We’re not surprised the court didn’t see any issue worthy of review.” [...]

Through the years, the team has steadfastly defended the use of the Redskins nickname as honoring Native Americans, not disparaging them. [...]

Through the years, the team has steadfastly defended the use of the Redskins nickname as honoring Native Americans, not disparaging them.

Native American groups have persuaded scores of high school and college teams to rename their mascots. The National Congress of American Indians told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief that the Redskins name is “patently offensive, disparaging, and demeaning and perpetrates a centuries-old stereotype.”

But despite vociferous protests, the team has not budged. Under both former owner Jack Kent Cooke and current owner Daniel Snyder, Raskopf said, there has never been “even a whisper” about changing the nickname.

A new group of Native American activists plans take the case to court again using different circumstances in order to get around the statute of limitations.

Except it’s also pretty damn funny.  Horrifying and scary, but funny…

via New Left Media

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1. Paul Simon – Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
2. Slow Club – Come on Youth
3. Andrew Bird – Nomenclature
4. The 1900s – When I Say Go
5. Sleater-Kinney – Good Things

I saw this headline on my local paper’s website.  As you can see from the first paragraph, law officials want parents to step up and guide their children on the right path.  But you wouldn’t be able to tell that from the headline.  Nope, let’s blame the mothers!

Ugh.

TransGriot: Time To End Putting People’s Civil Rights Up For A Majority Vote

TIME: Rape and the plight of the female migrant worker

Criss Writes: My Cis Priviledge & the #ProChoice Movement

Womanist Musings: Honouring The Rage

Austin-American Statesman: State elections official fired after poking fun at Spanish-speaking voters

Monitor Mix:  Rock music goes the way of the beard

FWD/Forward: Why are they so angry at her?

The Pursuit of Harpyness: Is Feminist Punditry Really Possible? (Or Positive?)

Jezebel: Why Men Should Learn To Like Period Sex

Racialicious: Dulce Pinzón’s The Real Story of the Superheroes

Feministe: Raising a Progressive-Minded Kid

Flip Flopping Joy: slave woman/mistress

Muslimah Media Watch: Marketing Muslim Lifestyles and Rethinking Modesty

stuff white people do: get inside the heads of non-white people

ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project: “No One Should Go Through What I Went Through:”

Feel free to leave your links in the comments!