Lexi? Really?

So, I awoke from a dream that I was selling Lexus automobiles.

I was really, really good at it.

Thankya thanksgiving

So, a few things to start with - a very interesting op-ed in Mother Jones about Congress and regulating the financial markets. Best quote from that piece -

"I remain pessimistic on the ability of Congress to rein in the financial community in any serious way. They just don't have the power."

Next, a terrific and funny contribution from a Northwest flight attendant in today's New York Times. Terrific reading for anyone traveling this Holiday season.

Having a peaceful weekend, did my "traveling" today just trekking from the office to the apartment.

Tomorrow, going to Donna's where we will hang out drinking coffee and jabbering all day. No turkey (I think), no "tradition", no nonsense.

Speaking of holiday traditions, it is quite well established that Christmas is a re-purposing of the pagan winter solstice. Easter is the spring solstice. Thanksgiving, though?

It's a holiday unique to North Amercia. Canadian Thanksgiving is earlier than is ours and is to celebrate the end of the harvest.

Here in the US, we are told that some of the first English settlers invited their Native American neighbors over for a little nosh in gratitude for their support of the previously starving English settlers.

With turkeys, cranberries and mashed potatoes.

What if it wasn't so? What if we've had a re-write of history, just as we have with the Bible and so many other "truths" that are taken for granted?

These two diaries are very interesting - they're pretty angry (given the author's point of view) but the present a very interesting perspective and a possible background we've never heard about.

Just a quiet rant, but it seems to me that holiday shopping and hours are particularly aggressive today.