THE APHRODISIAC POWERS of pumpkin pie.

ENJOY THE TURKEY: World ‘Dangerously Close’ to Food Crisis, U.N. Says.

COLD-WEATHER comfort food.

VEGETARIANISM FROM THE OTHER SIDE. Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks to reader Matt Barker for this.

CRACKS IN THE DAM: The Daily Express today becomes the first national newspaper to call for Britain to leave the European Union. Jim Bennett emails: “Having to pony up ten billion to bail out a currency they don’t even belong to after all those domestic budget cuts seems to have woken people up. Once the change starts, it might unfold very quickly. ” Stay tuned. We live in interesting times.

Related item here: A contagious Irish disease?

ADVICE TO ASPIRING WRITERS from Sarah Hoyt.

MORE ON SECURITY SCANNER SAFETY.

BINGE THINKING: A look at the social impact of state liquor controls.

WILL ELECTRIC VEHICLES LIKE THE NISSAN LEAF be cheaper to insure? This seems a mixed blessing, though: “The Leaf, with its 100-mile range, is expected to be driven less than a conventional vehicle. Less time spent on the road means that the likelihood of being involved in an accident drops off significantly.”

NOBODY TELL STEPHEN GREEN: Vodka-infused Turkey.

INDULGENCE, GRANTED: You have permission to eat pie.

IN THE MAIL: From David Drake, The Complete Hammer’s Slammers: Vol. 3.

UNITED STATES V. HUET: Second Amendment Protects Gun Possession by the Housemates of Felons.

CHANGE: Is China’s Competitive Edge Already Eroding?

NEW FRONTIERS IN PLAGIARISM ONLINE. Frankly, I don’t believe the student’s excuse. “And at the University of Maryland, a student reprimanded for copying from Wikipedia in a paper on the Great Depression said he thought its entries — unsigned and collectively written — did not need to be credited since they counted, essentially, as common knowledge.” Riiight.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM REASON TV: The Pilgrims and Property Rights: How our ancestors got fat & happy.

THE TEN COOLEST KITCHENS OF CELEBRITIES.

ROGER SIMON: Thanksgiving 2010: Is the American Dream Dying? Do not take counsel of your fears.

ROGER KIMBALL: Democracy: Use It Or Lose It.

ROB “N.Z. BEAR” NEPPELL WRITES that if you’re thinking about your end-of-year charitable donations you might want to consider Spirit Of America.

TURKEY-COOKING FAQS from Butterball.

CHANGE: Latest Gallup poll: Barack Obama gets another shellacking from the Tea Party.

SHIRLEY SVORNY: MAKE COLLEGE COST MORE. “The state’s prosperity rests on public policies that encourage economic activity, not on heavy subsidies to higher education. Moreover, artificially low fees attract some students to higher education who simply aren’t suited to the academic rigors of a university. Ultimately, the presence of these lower-achieving students hurts those who are more academically inclined, as they end up in watered-down courses in which professors have to focus on bringing the low achievers along.”

Related: The Five-Year Party: Is College Worth It? “About 70 percent of high school graduates start college, but only half complete a degree within four years. A large number of those who do graduate have trouble finding good-paying jobs or end up doing something for which they do not need a college degree. Brandon’s conclusion: Millions of people would be better off doing something else with their time and money.”

UPDATE: Reader Tim Maguire writes:

I think Ms. Svorny misses an important point about college subsidies. Ending them might make college marginally more expensive in the sense of out of pocket expenses of the student, but the harder truth is that the subsidies themselves have made college more expensive.

Tuition inflation has largely tracked the increase in aid available so that, far from making it easier for people to attend college, it has functioned as a wealth transfer from taxpayers, parents and students to college administrators. Given that so much of college costs today are merely time shifted into the student’s future through loans that must eventually be repaid, there is every reason to believe that ending government aid will reduce the real costs of a college education.

Indeed. That’s what the higher education bubble is all about.

OUR NEXT PRESIDENT: “Tough, smart, and chubby?”

THANKSGIVING in 1810, 1910, and 2010.