Two years ago, just a few weeks after the 2016 election, I wrote "Yes, You Should Shame Your Trump Voting Relatives At Thanksgiving Dinner." I was still trying to find the words to describe what I knew was coming and I got a ration of crap for it. This was long before the media ...read more
Given that it'll likely be pretty quiet around here for the Thanksgiving holiday, I figured I'd go ahead and post something first published back in late November of 2009 over at my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent. It concerns veganism, Thanksgiving and the question of just how much we ...read more
It's Thanksgiving, a time to give thanks (duh), feed our faces, make poor use of the political talking points we've all prepared for our obnoxious uncles/bleeding-heart nephews, and enjoy an almost total news dead zone. One of the ways we stuff the cavity of that news bird every ...read more
My first Thanksgiving in San Francisco, when I was 21, I met a girl who invited me to a Thanksgiving Day protest. When I asked why they were protesting, she looked at me with disgust and said, “because of the rape and murder and exploitation of indigenous peoples by the ...read more
Given that it'll likely be pretty quiet around here for the Thanksgiving holiday, I figured I'd go ahead and post something first published back in late November of 2009 over at my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent. It concerns veganism and Thanksgiving the question of just how much we ...read more
Thanksgiving is a tradition that Americans from every walk of life can enjoy. It is a time when friends and family get together and give thanks for what they have. However, the tradition has some rather worrying elements to it that could teach Americans socialistic concepts like ...read more
On behalf of everyone here at The Daily Banter, including Chez Pazienza, Oliver Willis and especially our esteemed publisher Ben Cohen, I'd like to extend to you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving. We couldn't do this without your support and your smart, insightful ...read more
As the relatively small number of Occupy Wall St protesters brave the cold and rain in the name of income equality and social justice, millions of Americans have been waiting in line at shopping malls through the night in order to rack up their credit card bills to buy cut ...read more