TALKLEFT REPORTS that the ACLU has gotten involved in the battle over Racine, Wisconsin’s dumb anti-rave raid. (I wrote about the raid here a while back). You can also see the party organizers’ website on the subject here.

JAMES LILEKS has a fine Thanksgiving post. No surprise there.

ARABS RIOTED IN ANTWERP Wednesday night. It hasn’t gotten much attention in U.S. media, but Live from Brussels has all the details. And scroll down to read the point about Berbers.

NO BIAS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: Check out this headline:

6 Israelis Die at Polling Station; Sharon Wins

No comment required.

MICKEY KAUS has been blogging up a storm while the rest of us have dozed in a turkey-induced coma.

SOME APPALLING PICTURES from Kenya.

DINNER HERE WAS A SUCCESS, except that next year I think I’ll cook a second leg of lamb. Both the turkey and the lamb looked like they had been attacked by hungry piranhas, but the lamb was the most popular. Now I’m going to drink beer with my brother. Woohoo!

I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING ABOUT the absurd appointment of Henry Kissinger to find the truth behind the 9/11 attacks because, well, it just seems too absurd for words. David Corn and Mickey Kaus are not so encumbered, and they’re both appalled.

All I can figure is that the Bush Administration has an equal-and-opposite mole to the one Tony Woodlief has identified at NPR.

ONE OF THE THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR: Sgt. Stryker!

JEN TALIAFERRO HAS PUT UP HER SIDE in the latest delinking brouhaha. Me, I agree with the Volokh position on all of this stuff.

Somehow, it’s hard to take it seriously in a house full of family, and the smell of turkey and lamb cooking.

THE TURKEY’S IN THE OVEN! And the lamb is marinating. I’ve been snacking on some of my mother-in-law’s excellent hummus to keep up my strength.

Here’s a link to an account of the first Thanksgiving. Still no word of what Tony is cooking (last year, I remember, he decided not to do the leg of lamb). But Will Vehrs has a 25-pound turkey in the oven.

UPDATE: Tony has posted his menu and it sounds yummy.

BLOGGING WILL BE INTERMITTENT TODAY: I’m cooking a turkey and a leg of lamb. (I wonder what Tony is cooking?) As usual, we’ll be having my family and my wife’s family over, so it’s a pretty big affair. But the computer’s right here, and it’s always on, so I’m sure there will be some posting. Happy Thanksgiving! Despite all, we have much to be thankful for.

ONCE AGAIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES IS PLAYING CATCH-UP TO THE BLOGOSPHERE, with a story on the shortage of female warbloggers, something that was bruited about the blogosphere months ago. Jeff Jarvis is unimpressed, and not shy about saying so:

(1) Anyone of any gender who wants to start a blog can. Nobody will stop them. So you can’t argue that some bigger power structure — blog executives, the old blog boys club — is stopping them. The only thing stopping nonbloggers from . . . blogging is themselves. That, after all, is the whole point of this new medium: It’s anybody’s. It’s everybody’s.

(2) There are many, many great women bloggers. I don’t need to start listing them. You know them.

Even the writer has to admit that there is no frigging point to her story: “But women are, in fact, blogging in big numbers.” So why write it? Why print it? Just because it fits?

I don’t think the story is quite that bad, but maybe my expectations for the Times are lower than Jeff’s. What I think is curious is that the author didn’t interview more female bloggers, especially warbloggers. Sure, she interviews Virginia Postrel, but (1) Virginia writes for the Times, which makes it kind of inside-baseball; and (2) Virginia isn’t blogging much anymore. (Why not? Come back, Virginia! We miss you!) Rebecca Blood is mentioned, but she’s not a warblogger by any means, and the article seems just to be drawing from her book — she isn’t actually quoted. The other women quoted are non-warbloggers.

But the reporter could have gone down my blogroll and found a lot of women warbloggers who blog more-or-less daily. Talking to them might have shed some light on the story. My guess is that women who do warblogs are interested in different things than women who don’t.

The interesting thing to me isn’t that there are fewer women warbloggers than men. It’s that there are so many more women warbloggers than there would have been ten years ago. The Times missed the bellicose-women trend entirely in this story. I can’t help but feel that a conversation with Michele, or Brooke, or Athena, — all of whom could be found without getting past the “A” section of my blogroll — might have been enlightening. And led to a better story.

MY BROTHER, in his beloved-uncle role, is telling my daughter a bedtime story. We just finished watching Mystery Science Theater together (off the swell Rhino 1st-season DVD collection). So I thought I’d check my email and when I look I’ve got a bunch of messages from somebody using the pseudonym “Henry Flowers.” There are a lot of them, with subject lines like “Den Beste reveals his ignorant bigotry,” and “Typical lying Republicans.” They’re full of typos.

And I wonder — what kind of guy sits up the night before Thanksgiving churning out that kind of embittered, yet utterly pointless, stuff instead of enjoying life and the holidays?

Al, get some help.

AUSTIN BAY WRITES ABOUT MICRODEVELOPMENT EFFORTS in Africa.

SOMEHOW, THIS DESCRIPTION reminds me of the color commentary from a televised golf tournament. Heh.

OKAY THIS WHOLE DELINKING THING seems to be spreading. Is that such a good idea?

WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD LOVE FEDERALISM: Read my FoxNews Column — coauthored this time with Professor Brannon Denning — to find out.

HOMELAND SECURITY: Maybe it’s me, but this kind of reminds me of this.

What do you think?

I WAS GOING TO BUY A DIGITAL CAMERA today, but thanks to Nick Denton’s Gizmodo site, I found this article saying that prices are likely to drop sharply in the next few weeks. Thanks, Gizmodo!

My wife, interestingly, was up in New York last week doing a TV show and dropped by her cousin’s palatial loft in Chelsea. He gave her a cup of coffee from some outrageously fancy $700 coffeemaker that he’d found via “this great website called ‘Gizmodo’.” It’s a small world.

IS ALL THE ANTI-MEDIA STUFF FROM DEMOCRATS A COORDINATED CAMPAIGN? Neal Boortz and Hugh Hewitt think so. (And Hewitt calls InstaPundit a “third-tier force” in the media! Woohoo! I think that’s a tier or two higher than I deserve, actually — but I’ll take it.)

Justin Katz, meanwhile, wonders if the Arab News is in on the campaign, too?

YOU CAN HEAR ME ON “DIGITAL DIALOGUE” HERE, right now.

THE SAUDI / 9-11 CONNECTION still has legs.

MY EARLIER POST quoting feminist scholar Mary Daly in support of a world where the percentage of men was drastically reduced brought these thoughts from reader Steve White:

Regarding the thoughts of Mary Daly and Sally Miller Gearhart, who proposes limiting the number of men to ten percent of the human race: isn’t this about what Dr. Strangelove had in mind when he talked about the “mine shaft gap”? I’m not sure, but take a look at the script:

Strangelove: I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy…heh, heh…(He rolls his wheelchair forward into the light.) at the bottom of ah…some of our deeper mineshafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in drilling space could easily be provided.

President: How long would you have to stay down there?

Strangelove: …I would think that uh, possibly uh…one hundred years…It would not be difficult Mein Fuehrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh…I’m sorry, Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country, but I would guess that dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.

President: Well, I, I would hate to have to decide…who stays up and…who goes down.

Strangelove: Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.

Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha. But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.

… (later) …

General Buck Turgidson: (judiciously) You mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Wouldn’t that necessitate abandoning the so-called monogamous form of sexual relation ship?

Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to perform prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating order.

Er, I don’t think this is what Daly had in mind. . . . She only endorsed a nine-to-one ratio!

DO YOUR JOB, GET FIRED:

Senior investigators hired to root out fraud and corruption at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been fired — just days after revealing what they knew to officials with the Department of Energy’s inspector general.

Armed guards escorted Glenn Walp and Steven Doran out of their offices on Monday, a half-hour after Stan Busboom, director of security, informed the pair that they were not “suitable fit(s) for the requirements of (their) position(s)” at the lab’s Office of Security Inquiries.

Over the past several months, Walp and Doran had led a series of high-profile investigations that generated a tide of bad publicity for the birthplace of the atom bomb.

It’s this kind of stuff that explains why people don’t trust the whole Homeland Security enterprise.