Dessert Challenge, Capitalism, Freedom, And Gratitude: Happy Thanksgiving!

Blog entry promised by Herr D.

I gotta say, no matter what your politics, you are still thoroughly and emphatically American if you understand two things:

1. The chef who figures out an 'M'-shaped dessert that tastes of peach and mint and tastes GOOD is going to be rich and famous and have loads of people angry at him.

2. The biggest difference between our country and the old Soviet Union is that when people find out what the president did, in America, some people are really mad and want him impeached. In the old Soviet Union they essentially shrugged at the idea that a politician would break the law. They could do nothing about it without a bloody revolution.

We can be thankful for the capacity to overthrow our leaders without bloodshed and our right to miserably argue about it without fear of government reprisal.