Deconstructing Thanksgiving to create some alien food form. NOT in my kitchen.

The challenge is to have left overs that taste good and do not need tweaking.

(secret, make extra gravy)

Looking forward to a new approach beyond the recipe.

Welcome to Salon, the new frontier.

(foodies, can we do something about that word?)

Just reading three letters and my stomach is turning. The cycle of bashing women goes like this:

1. Tween girls are little sluts.

2. Teens are whores.

3. Mothers are obnoxious and entitled.

4. Women of a certain age are in the way.

Do you see the pattern? They are all women.

Apparently Hillary was "entitled".

Scientists, doctors, sociologists and psychologists are telling us daily how to mother--cause apparently we did it wrong for generations. When the young and capable women try to apply the things they are told to do to be good mothers, they are being helicopters, fawning and all kinds of dreadful things.

Common thread: don't be born a woman. You can be a thirty year old slacker still dressing like Bart Simpson and no one is allowed to talk about your sorry useless ass. But start a hate circle about women, and here they come.

Jonathan I was worried about you, it took so long to respond. Now off you go cause this got twittered and facebooked. Gonna be a busy day Jonathan.

Glenn, no AIPAC drones yet, telling you all the standard hogwash about how the Palestinians don't want peace.

The terms the US put down:

So simple: NO NEW SETTLEMENTS.

Don't evict Palestinians and destroy Palestinian Houses

No, what do Obama and Clinton do, they want the Palestinians to accept less than the ban on settlers, and allow Israel to continue the evictions. The Obama administration characterized the Israeli offer to only put up 3,000 houses and not to stop the eviction, "unprecedented".

Now drones, tell us how the Palestinians and Arabs don't want peace and make no effort.

The Tax Credits replaced all the government affordable housing programs. Instead of funding affordable housing, we have created an entire industry that structures complex financing for not so affordable housing. The structures have now created a cottage industry that will never allow this to change, since the fees from consulting and such sustain them.

Tax credits is like lying to yourself, but then again, we loved lying to ourselves and being lied to. Infantilism of a society.

I have noticed a certain type of person who particularly dislikes the access to writing and reading on the internet. They are always eager to scold others on their usage. It is a way of shutting people up.

A few years ago I read June Casagrande's work on the subject. She basically points out the conflicts in usage among the experts.

Rushing to buy this book.

So, President Snowe will get her wish,(she may even not vote for it) President Obama will claim we have a bipartisan bill. The question remains, is anything better than nothing? If this had some real insurance reform, maybe. But, the insurance companies will not even have to pick up people with pre-existing conditions without government subsidies till 2013.

The current Baucus version is a textbook on privatising profit and socializing risk.

To say no and stop something always looks like a win (the Republicans). To say yes, and work on something that has to have lots of compromises appears like a loss to the public. We need to educate ourselves about when we "win" something, where are the points of victory. We talk of bipartisan and yet, we have no language and no culture of welding together compromise, our language is always of winners and losers.

The point on the Healthcare Reform, many of us are caught up on the horse race and we are not paying attention to the hundreds of policy details that need to be decided and some decision will be made. It does not help that our press is always talking the "horse race' and never spending any time to educate us on the implications of the policies.

Joan, on Bill, I think for me one of the reasons I wanted Hillary to win was that the Clintons had the experience with the Senate, the House and the Press. They did not need the learning curve. This is exactly why I was adamantly for Hillary in the primary. I do not think and did not think we have the time for learning curves and for the side show that I knew the right wing would create. I am sure that the "powers that be" did not care to have experienced Democrats in the White House.

When did size 12 become a "plus size"? I never got the memo.

I thought plus sizes were 16 and up, just wondering.

Mr. Moyers,

I was reminded last week of your program during the primary, where you described the meeting with MLK and LBJ, I found that to be one of the most poignant moments of the primary. Mr. Obama, must stand up to Congress. This is not a time for half measures, as it was not time back in the time of LBJ and MLK.

I admire you greatly Mr. Moyers, but I disagree on one thing, let Ms. Walsh write the speech.

So Joan, how do the Obama people ask for money when I read this today, again, from administration officials?

But some administration officials welcome a showdown with liberal lawmakers if they argue they would rather have no health care law than an incremental one. The confrontation would allow Obama to show he is willing to stare down his own party to get things done.

Give money for what? To get stared down? Are we counting how many times the "liberal base" aka, the Democratic agenda, gets stared down.