LES JONES: Climategate II – Longer, Harder, Uncut Emails. “I love it when highly-credentialed scientists use scare quotes. And triple question marks. The only thing separating these emails from notes passed in junior high is little hearts over the i’s and talking about how much they hate that new cheerleader who transferred in from Central.”

#OCCUPYFAIL: Weapons Cache Found During Zuccotti Park Cleanup, Sources Say. Okay, it’s a “weapons cache” by the standards of Bloomberg’s New York.

SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Obama Admin Backs-Off Ban on Parks Plinking.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on GPS and Navigation.

ESTIMATING THE COSTS of legal scholarship.

MORE ON BRITAIN’S SAD DECLINE: You can’t buy that lime… it could be classed as a weapon. “An assistant then came over and told her that more than one lime was deemed a weapon – because the citric acid could be squirted in someone’s eye.”

UPDATE: It wasn’t clear to me at first, but on rereading this was apparently a joke by the store staff. That it’s credible, however, underscores the “sad decline” point anyway.

WELL, SHE’S SUCCEEDED: “I want to look like a cartoon character.” Plus this: “Despite constant staring from strangers, Kristina, who has never had a boyfriend, loves her bizarre appearance.”

STUDENT-BUILT ELECTRIC VEHICLE is more than just a car.

SARAH HOYT OFFERS advice on breaking into writing.

THANKSGIVING IN IRAQ. The last one there for U.S. troops?

TRANSPARENCY: Exposing the Cost of Health Care. “Most Americans don’t know what medical procedures cost until after the fact. One startup aims to change that.”

DRUGS: “Lethal” Radiation Doses Can Be Treated With Drugs. My 7th-grade science fair project, which involved giving rats megadoses of Vitamin E to see if it protected them from radiation, never got off the ground — some teachers thought it was cruel or something — but it’s nice to see that others are working on this sort of thing. We may need it.

SUPERCOOLED: Water doesn’t have to freeze until -55 F.

WELL, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR: Goldman Sachs predicts that U.S. will be world’s largest producer of oil in 2017. How did I miss this?

THE PHYSICS OF wine-swirling.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”

For those who’d like to watch the whole episode, it’s online at Hulu.

WASHINGTON POST REPORTER BRIEFING DEMOCRATS:

From JournoList to activist, it appears that WaPo‘s liberal blogger Ezra Klein is once again blurring the lines between being a journalist and trying to sway politics. In what appears to be at a minimum a breach of journalism ethics, Klein spoke to a group of Senate Democratic Chiefs of Staff last Friday about the Supercommittee, just days before the Committee announced its failing. “It was kind of weird,” said a longtime Senate Democratic aide, explaining that while people “enjoyed it” and gave it “positive reviews” this sort of thing is far from typical.

A longtime Washington editor who deals with Capitol Hill regularly also said this is not the norm: “I have never heard of a reporter briefing staffers. It’s supposed to be the other way around. This arrangement seems highly unusual.”

Or highly typical, in Ezra’s case. But hey, at least he hasn’t engaged in unauthorized re-tweeting. That might get the WaPo’s ombudsman on his case.

UPDATE: Maybe this is a case of “progressive flooding.”

HOW TO ROAST A TURKEY, and other advice.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Occupy flash mob fails to impress Walmart workers. “A two minute ‘flash mob’ by members of Occupy’s Santa Ana contingent left some Walmart employees feeling disrespected and confused.”

GET YOUR Mars Mojo Working.

TODAY ONLY: LG 42-Inch 1080p 120Hz LED-LCD HDTV for $499.

FROM ROGER KIMBALL: A Couple Of Thoughts About Thanksgiving.

WHAT TAX PROFESSORS ARE THANKFUL FOR.

CLIMATEGATE PART TWO: “On a second reading of the stolen UAE emails leaked today, and just reading the README file emails, these sound worse than I thought at first – their impact will be devastating.”

UPDATE: Yeah, it should be UEA, not UAE, but it’s a quote.