For what will be my last pre-Thanksgiving TV appearance, I’ll be on al-Jazeera at 9 p.m. to discuss the steaming heap of international mess the Obama administration will have to confront just after the holiday ends. Iraq! Iran! Afghanistan! Pakistan! Copenhagen! It’s the arc of instability coming further unstable. Or something. I will have some drinks before going on air, which ought to clear my head.

Oh and this seems as good a time as any to say: for the next couple days, this blog is going to take a relaxed posting schedule. I’m getting on a plane at 11 a.m. tomorrow to spend Thanksgiving with my girlfriend’s family, and blogging is not going to be high on my agenda. I doubt I’ll ever actually let the blog go dark, even on Thanksgiving itself, but I’m probably going to have more like a few-items-a-day operational tempo. But I do want to go apeshit in Marcy‘s comments for the actual turkey day football games.  After all, I’m going to be in Detroit and can’t wait to finally see one of these awful, wretched Lions performances in the company of actual Lions fans.