A TURKEY OF A HEADLINE in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

WELL, this is comforting: “The U.S. military is vulnerable to China’s advanced war-fighting systems, including space weapons and computer attacks that would be used in a future conflict over Taiwan, according to a congressional commission”s report released yesterday.” Maybe we should just give Taiwan some nukes and wash our hands of the situation. Kind of like China and Iran . . . .

MORE THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR, via Daniel Drezner.

A LIST OF long-awaited DVD releases.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING: Now let’s shop!

FROM “WAR ON CHRISTMAS” to “war on Thanksgiving?”

A COLLECTION OF Thanksgiving proclamations thoughout the years.

SARKOZY PULLING A THATCHER? “If Sarkozy manages to face down the transport union, he’ll have really accomplished something–and I’d expect the other public-service unions to fall into line. The real problem, as in 1968, will be the student protestors. But I’ve seen these kids, and they aren’t the in the same league as their parents (grandparents!) from the Sixties. They’ll cave, too.”

ANN ALTHOUSE: “I don’t want people to know what weapons I hold.”

Plus, this: “Alan Greenspan has it together way more than Eric Clapton did.”

IT’S A SPECIAL THANKSGIVING SURVIVAL EDITION of PJM Political. Listen online, or pick it up on XM Satellite Radio, channel 130, at 6 pm eastern today.

Among other things, advice from the Insta-Wife on holiday political arguments, and James Lileks talking about his new book.

U.N. GREENHOUSE CONFERENCE WILL overload Bali’s airport with private jets:

Tempo Interaktif reports that Angkasa Pura – the management of Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport are concerned that the large number of additional private charter flights expected in Bali during the UN Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) December 3-15, 2007, will exceed the carrying capacity of apron areas. To meet the added demand for aircraft storage officials are allocating “parking space” at other airports in Indonesia.

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis. That clearly hasn’t happened yet.

AMY ALKON: How’s that D.C. handgun ban working?

AMAZON’S KINDLE sold out in 5 1/2 hours. People seem to want ’em — the Popular Mechanics folks were going to send me one, but apparently mine was intercepted by higher-ranking folks (er, that would be most of ’em) at Hearst.

HOW TO CARVE A TURKEY: With video.

UPDATE: Thanksgiving day food science! You gotta love this: “For perfect browning, McGee applies some final touches to the skin with a heat gun.”

MY SISTER-IN-LAW BROUGHT HOME a book by my University of Tennessee colleague Marilyn Kallet, Jack the Healing Cat. Looks like a must for cat-lovers!

UPDATE: Also from Marilyn Kallet: One for Each Night: Chanukah Tales and Recipes.

I’LL BE COOKING A TURKEY (JUST PUT IT IN THE OVEN) AND MY USUAL LEG OF LAMB: Actually, two legs, which may turn out to be too much — my brother has a sick kid and they won’t be able to make it after all. But leftover lamb is okay, too, so I’ll cook ’em both. Hope your Thanksgiving is similarly abundant, and that everyone is able to show up.

And if you need turkey-cooking advice, the Butterball folks are ready to help. Judging by their site’s load-time, a lot of people are taking advantage of it.

UPDATE: From Jim Lindgren, some food history.

HOME ON A FOUR-DAY PASS, John Tammes is thankful. And we’re thankful for him.

JAMES FALLOWS OFFERS constructive criticism to Andrew Sullivan.

HMM: Russian opposition election candidate shot.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “Anyone have any idea why both the third world countries I just visited offered excellent airport baggage service, while JFK took over an hour to offload my bag?”

UPDATE: More on the problems with baggage-handling. Airlines continue their war against carry-on luggage, but all it would take to fix the problem would be to make checked baggage something you can trust. People don’t carry their own luggage because they like to carry their own bags. They do it out of (well-founded) fear.

JFK’S DEATH, re-framed.

GIVING THANKS: Noah Shachtman emails: “A few months back, you recommended Charles Stross’ “The Atrocity Archive.” I finally got around to reading it – sheer, unadulterated genius. I’ve ordered three more books by him, as a result. Thanks for the heads-up — and Happy T-Day.”

Thanks for the thanks! And The Jennifer Morgue is good, too. As I’ve noted before, it’s kind of reminiscent of Tim Powers’ Declare.

UPDATE: And reader Louis Gifford emails: “While people are thanking you for books you recommended, let me also thank you for The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter and A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark. Because of you, I know a little better about how human civilization works.” Both excellent books. Thank the authors!

IN THE LONDON TIMES, Tim Montgomerie looks at different Bush foreign policy approaches toward Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq, and projects which will likely be seen as successful in ten years: “The bungled road to a democratic Iraq has been far too bloody but it’s now perfectly sensible to believe that Bush’s pre-emptive war may have sown the seeds for what could be the least troubled nation of the region in a decade’s time. The multilateral approach to Iran may leave us with a nuclear-armed Tehran terrorising Israel and holding the world to ransom over oil supplies.”

JAMES LILEKS ON what he’s thankful for. Plus, Mozart-whistling turkeys!

THE YOUNGEST LAWYER in California: “This week, many 18-year-olds are celebrating their first Thanksgiving back home, taking a break from freshman year. Not Kathleen Holtz. She’s celebrating passing the California bar exam and her first trial victory at a law firm.”