Thanksgiving weekend rolls on

...off to B-Daddy's this afternoon for more bird and fixins. Yum.

Quote of the day from Instaglen:

I like Thanksgiving; when I was a kid it seemed like a pale imitation of Christmas, without all the presents. Now it seems like a purer version of Christmas, where the focus is on family instead of . . . all the presents.

We're glad Glen thinks this way. It's quaint, cute even but we are of the mind that Thanksgiving is becoming the forgotten holiday. With Christmas decorations going up days after Halloween why not just go with an 11-month calendar where November and December are eliminated and and we rename the last 60 or so days of the year, "Holiday"? Charmed, we're sure.

Our creeping cynicism is deepened after learning of a horribly needless trampling death upon the opening of Black Friday doors at a Wal-Mart on Long Island (jeez, did it have to be a Wal-Mart?). Hate to say it but that's Third World stuff and we all could use a "re-boot" when it comes to the practice of our better nature during the frantic Holiday Season.