We celebrate Thanskgiving the traditional way, with our Third Annual Turkey Roast. With any luck, one of the turkeys will be a trivia answer in a year or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2SUaoVy_iU

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“I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once, as a wayward teenager, and never did it again.”
—Mitt Romney to People magazine

• Pop Rocks.
• Loosened tie while on Mission.
• Tied family dog to car roof. (Adult indiscretion)

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One recent Populist Uprising was notable for its brandishing of weapons. The Populists, peacefully assembled, feared violent supression by the State.

Another recent Populist Uprising is notable for its lack of weapons. The Populists, peacefully assembled, fear financial supression by the State.

Guess which peaceful Populist Uprising the State has chosen to violently supress?

The Occupiers are missing a major symbolic opportunity. Screw Fawkes. Go Gadsden.

Why didn’t Natalie Wood take a shower on the boat?

She wanted to wash up on shore.

What did Princess Grace have that Natalie Wood could have used?

A good stroke.

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We’ve been a geek since age 15, although we took a decade off to explore other things before being dragged back in. (We used to blame it on buying an answering machine, which ended our Luddite Interval forever.) These days we earn a serious part of the rent by developing and maintaining websites, which means we’ve spent a serious amount of time thinking about passwords.

About which, we discovered last night, we’ve been seriously wrong.

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This is going to get very ugly very quickly. We’re going to quote a passage at length from the Penn State grand-jury report — the part that describes what then-graduate assistant and now-assistant coach Mike McQueary saw in the locker-room shower, and what he did about it. Especially the latter.

We’re quoting the passage because McQueary’s been — in our judgment — too casually condemned for his response. Andrew Sullivan, in particular, has been all over it. And, to jump ahead to our point, we’re not sure we would have handled it any better. Or, more precisely, we have no fucking clue how we would have handled it. Hindsight not only distorts perception, it distorts the facts.

Here’s the relevant passage, from page 6:

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