We suppose we ought to write some kind of treatise on the holiday, but what can you say about Thanksgiving that hasn't been said a thousand times before?
Some trivia: Did you know that the First Thanksgiving was actually a Seder?
What?
Oh, never mind: That was the Last Supper.
(We didn't know Jesus was a Pilgrim.)
Also, Tea Partiers would have you believe that the original Pilgrims were Socialists who came to see the error in collectivized living. This, of course, is nonsense. The Pilgrims, as you might expect of people forging a new life in a strange wilderness, people frequently delirious with hunger to boot, experimented with various different forms of governance and societal organization.
One of the more notable experiments involved the use of the "Speaking Badger": Executive authority was invested in whatever male over the age of 30 was holding the badger. Indeed, this is where the expression, "Uneasy sleeps the man who holds the badger" comes from: Between the frequent assassination attempts and, let's face it, the fact that he was holding a 50 pound animal with sharp claws and teeth, the badger-holders were seldom able to concentrate long enough to push through any sort of legislative agenda.
Hope you all enjoyed your turkey!
(Image from HeatherCherry.blogspot.com. We tried to find something more appropriate, but you try finding any images of pilgrims holding badgers.)
Thanksgiving is a tall, dark, Asian with one arm and a marked propensity to dressing in purple tutus. I don't think that's been said a thousand times before.
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