I don't mean to ruin Nadezhda's silver lining, but ...

We're Congressional Republicans are spending $2,000,000 taxpayer dollars so that George W. Bush can have a Presidential Yacht?

(Edited: credit where credit is due)

Maybe this is a little early yet for some folks, but Thanksgiving break is here at BU. While I expect to spend the bulk of the break on marathon paper-writing sessions and thus expect my postings to remain light as they have been for the past month or more, I'm not actually going home for the holiday itself. Rather, I'm going to be celebrating it here in Boston... with Professor Bacevich. He invited folks in class without Thanksgiving plans to join him and his family and I was the only one to take him up on it... awkwardness abounds. It'll be great!

I plan on cooking (with my Japanese conversation partner: more wierdness) and bringing a derby pie to the festivities, the recipe for which follows below; this is a holiday staple of my Dad's (natch -- hope he doesn't mind me sharing it here), but times I've made it in the past, folks from around here have never heard of it, so maybe this is really more of a Southern or Midwestern thing. In any case, it's delicious and no turkey day is complete without it.

Happy Thanksgiving!   more »