TODAY: Thanksgiving dinner a costlier endeavor than last year. “The price of your holiday meal is up 13 percent from last Thanksgiving.”

A year ago today: Sarah Palin: Inflation Is Coming. Which shows she’s just as dumb as all those lefty pundits say — because food prices aren’t counted in inflation. Which is lucky for us, because if they were, we’d have a big inflation problem now. . . .

UPDATE: Killjoy Tom Maguire writes: “Re your comment about Sarah Palin, the CPI, and food – food prices are included in the standard CPI. Because food and energy prices are volatile, a second “core” CPI excluding food and energy is also commonly bandied about.” Yeah, I know, I was just trying to emulate the style of bestselling political humorist Frank J. Fleming. I suppose that kind of thing should be left to the professionals.