MARS NEEDS BEER! Budweiser begins space experiments aimed at brewing beer on Mars.

Well, this is the 21st century, you know.™

I THINK WE’RE ALL THANKFUL WE’RE NOT HERE: With Al Franken This Thanksgiving.

THANK YOU, NASA: Cassini Team Unveils Farewell Photo of Ringed Planet.

SARAH HOYT: How to Deal with Leftist Turkeys on Gobbler Day.

DOESN’T THIS SEEM POTENTIALLY SELF-SERVING? Conyers: Allow ‘People Who are Incarcerated’ to Vote.

KATHLEEN SEBELIUS SUDDENLY FINDS THE GUMPTION TO CRITICIZE BILL CLINTON:

Sebelius extended her criticism to Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton White House for what she called a strategy of dismissing and besmirching the women who stepped forward—a pattern she said is being repeated today by alleged perpetrators of sexual assault—saying that the criticism of the former first lady and Secretary of State was “absolutely” fair. Sebelius noted that the Clinton Administration’s response was being imitated, adding that “you can watch that same pattern repeat, It needs to end. It needs to be over.”

Ann Althouse comments: “It’s still too little, too late. Too easy to say this now when it’s convenient. Nevertheless, good to hear.”

Plus, from the comments: “And why did Obama not say anything?”

VOX: DEMOCRATS WERE WRONG ABOUT BILL CLINTON AND SHOULDN’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WITH AL FRANKEN. At Hot Air, John Sexton responds:

They fought us tooth and nail on this issue for 19 years. They mocked the right’s concerns and made flaming hypocrites of themselves abandoning their own concerns (sexual harassment, respect for women). Having done all of that, the left is now casually switching sides on the field, like a football team after half-time. As someone who lived through all of this, their sudden, convenient about-face is just astounding to behold. Two decades of their smug, snooty garbage and now it’s just “Okay, you were right all along.”

I’m not sure why Sexton is so astounded; for three-quarters of a century, the hard 180 has always been the left’s favorite move.

QED:

DO YOUR PART AND FRY MORE FOODS: The Telegraph (UK) is good at finding “scientists” who will say anything. Here, finally, they find some scientists who have useful information:

“In large cities like London, cooking fat is known to be responsible for 10 per cent of small particles in the air, so researchers believe frying food could have a noticeable impact on cloud formation and rainy weather. In fact, the effect is so large it could even have a cooling effect on the planet, and potentially slow down global warming.”

I, for one, am waiting for the government to offer tax incentives on deep fryers, because, you know, global warming. I’m willing to make that sacrifice if it helps Mother Gaia.

GIVING THANKS: Easily Overlooked Signs of a Gradually Improving Country.

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IT’S ALWAYS THEIR SEASON FOR GIVING: Male Dolphins Are Total Gift-Bearing Players When Courting Females.

SO A WOMAN SENT TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT A PACKAGE BOMB, and he opened the package himself, but it failed to detonate because he opened it the wrong way. You’d think a governor being nearly blown up would be bigger news.

PRO TIP:

At the very least, it’s better advice than Newsweek is offering up for you today.

“SOD OFF, SWAMPY” — EQUINE EDITION: Woman on horseback whips the hell out of hunting ‘saboteur’ who grabs animal’s reins in angry clash.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Gillman & Chemerinsky: Professors Are Losing Their Freedom of Expression.

I KNEW I LIKED HER: WaPo columnist: Sanders humiliates the media daily.

SO BAD… THEY’RE STILL JUST BAD: 7 Turkey Films for Turkey Day.

HISTORY: The First Thanksgiving Was Nothing Like What You Were Taught.

Among the most compelling historical accounts of that world comes from Charles Mann’s intriguing 2005 book, “1491,” a revisionist history of the pre-Columbian Americas that renders our storybook conception of the first Thanksgiving obsolete and, by comparison, rather boring. The truth is, the Pilgrims were able to survive and establish their colony because they were drawn into the political machinations of Massasoit, a shrewd and calculating Indian leader who was trying to figure out how to save his people from apocalypse.

The Indians Drew The Pilgrims Into a Political Alliance
Massasoit was the sachem, or political and military leader, of the Wampanoag confederation, a loose combination of villages in southeastern Massachusetts. About five years before the Pilgrims arrived, Massasoit’s people had been decimated by diseases brought by earlier European traders. Entire villages had been depopulated—including a Patuxet village that the newly arrived Pilgrims settled into and named New Plymouth.

As Mann explains, Massasoit was in a bind. The epidemic that had hit the Wampanoag hadn’t touched their longtime enemies to the west, the Narragansett. Massasoit feared his weakened people would be overrun, so he decided to gamble and let the Pilgrims stay. European traders had been visiting New England for at least a century, but Indian leaders always forbid them from establishing permanent settlements. The relationship was strictly transactional. Far from seeing the Europeans as superior, writes Mann, the Indians had good reason to take advantage of these strange newcomers.

Fascinating stuff — read the whole thing.

MARC THIESSEN IN THE WAPO: This Thanksgiving I’m Grateful Hillary Clinton Isn’t President: Read the whole thing.

FROM MY FORMER STUDENT CORBIN PAYNE: How To Interact With The Police.

NOTE TO POLITIFACT:THIS IS A JOKE!  Turkey pardoned by Trump had multiple contacts with Russian officials.

YEAH, BUT WHO DOESN’T?  Whales love a nice exfoliating rub down.

PEOPLE JUDGE EVERYTHING.  AND?  JUDGEMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT:  People judge married couples with different last names.