Turkey: You're not going to eat that, are you?

When Thanksgiving Was Weird: Thanksgiving used to be Halloween. "People—young and old—got all dressed up and staged costumed crawls through the streets," Linton Weeks writes at NPR. "In New York City—where the tradition was especially strong—a local newspaper reported in 1911 that "fantastically garbed youngsters and their elders were on every corner of the city. Thousands of folks ran rampant, one syndicated column noted. 'Horns and rattles are worked overtime. The throwing of confetti and even flour on pedestrians is an allowable pastime.'"

Thanksgiving Dinner Arguments: At Slate Amanda Marcotte offers some tips for winning after-dinner arguments with your RWNJ relatives about affirmative consent, Bill Cosby, and feminism. Vox offers debating points that will help you win arguments about immigration, the midterm elections, Ferguson, Israel-Palestine, and more.

Kid Thanksgiving vs. Adult Thanksgiving: The kids win this round.

Blazing Wattles: Gawker rounds up all the best turkey frying disaster videos YouTube has to offer. Enjoy.

Ferguson Protests: "Protests of Mondays grand jury decision were dampened somewhat on Wednesday night—particularly in Ferguson, Mo., where only a few dozen protesters braved the snow to demonstrate," reports NPR, "[But] more robust protests were seen in London, at the U.S. Embassy, and in Los Angeles, where protesters attempted to march on the Staples Center—where an NBA game was in progress—before being turned back by authorities." More than 300 people have been arrested in Los Angeles over the three days of protests and in New York City six people were arrested for attempting to stop the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Guns: "We shouldn't talk about Ferguson without talking about guns," writes Matthew Yglesias at Vox. "When civilians are well-armed, police have to be as well. That turns every encounter into a potentially lethal situation. The officer always has to worry that if he doesn't reach for and use his own gun, the suspect will."

Some Fap Material For Gun Nuts: Edmonds woman grabs gun, shoots intruder while kids and husband sleep. Having a gun in your home, research conclusively shows, makes a person less safe: "These weapons were fired far more often in accidents, criminal assaults, homicides or suicide attempts than in self-defense. For every instance in which a gun in the home was shot in self-defense, there were seven criminal assaults or homicides, four accidental shootings, and 11 attempted or successful suicides." But, yeah, Individual results may vary.

Two Seconds: That's the amount of time that elapsed between Cleveland cops pulling up after someone called 911 to report that a kid in a playground was waving what looked like a toy gun around and the cops shooting that 12-year-old kid dead. The kid is black—anyone surprised?—and Ohio is an open carry state where white guys parade around carrying assault weapons without being shot by the police.

P.D. James: Dead.

Britsgiving: One in six Brits now celebrate Thanksgiving. They're probably thankful that descendants of the puritans (our "pilgrims")—a.k.a. the jerks who pulled down Shakespeare's Globe—are over here.

Orcas, Orcas Everywhere: More of the iconic whales are being spotted in the Pacific Northwest. Researchers speculate that the a boom in seal and sea lion populations—which the whales feed on—are drawing the giant mammals.