Vacation Day

Sleeping in today and doing nothing so far has been pretty great. Can these trends continue? Let's find out.

* Delicious vegetarian Thanksgiving recipes, at AskMe.

* Parents suddenly begin to realize that Philip Pullman is a big fat atheist, and panic accordingly. A little more commentary and a different link over at blucarbnpinwheel.

* A legislative compromise has finally been reached on Iraq: Proposed Bill Would Bring 4,000 Troops Back To Life.

* The stem cell controversy is over, too: scientists have finally had some success in getting adult stem cells to do what embyronic stem cells can do. So medical science has been set back only six years; a drop in the bucket, really. (Please note that bucket also contains some chronically and terminally ill people who have suffered and will continue to suffer needlessly as a direct result of the absurd superstition and ignorance at the highest levels of our government.) More at MeFi and Washington Monthly, where they address the ludicrous claim that Bush deserves any credit whatsoever for these breakthroughs.