OK, that Thanksgiving greeting is just a couple of days early. But since I'm working a shift on Saturday, I found out that I have to take tomorrow off. (All right! All right! Quit twisting my arm! Geez!) So between Thanksgiving and my regular day off Friday, I guess my work week is done.
I plan to spend those three days deleting all of the e-mails stacked up in my in-box during the presidential campaign. I got plenty from the John McCain, Ron Paul and Ralph Nader campaigns. But I think I got twice as many from the Barack Obama campaign than all of the others combined.
I just went through a bunch of them earlier today, and I'm confused. Is Barack Obama for change or not?
Just kidding.
Since I likely won't post before then, enjoy your Thanksgiving. It's a great tradition -- paying tribute to the time when the pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest by inviting the Indians out for a great feast.
Of course, modern historians tell us that legendary first Thanksgiving feast probably didn't, technically speaking, "happen." And I'm betting that if the pilgrims did invite the Indians out to dinner, it would be to stick them with the bill.
But whatever. "When legend becomes fact, print the legend." That line sounded so impressive in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Yet for some reason, my editors are reluctant to adopt that philosophy when it comes to fact-checking my stories. Go figure.
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