Eagle probably tastes like chicken...just like snake, gator and lizard

Ah, Thanksgiving. Gail Collins of the NY Times does a marvelous job skewering some of our traditions as she mocks Courage, the Grand Marshall of The Disneyland Thanksgiving Parade, and ponders the cosmos. Courage is of course, a turkey. Obama seems to be becoming more ironic as the year wears on, commenting at the National Turkey Pardoning that “There are certain days that remind me of why I ran for this office. And then there are moments like this, where I pardon the turkey and send it to Disneyland." For Dispheet de la Dweeb, this was always the high point of his year.

You know, I wonder if the inspiration for DEVO, and certainly the best example of the justice behind the concept of devolution might not be the turkey. Franklin, who was probably drunk, advocated the American Wild Turkey as the national bird. Collins has some thoughts on it...

The National Turkey Federation named the bird Courage, perhaps in memory of Benjamin Franklin’s contention that the bald eagle was a bird of bad moral character while the turkey was “though a little vain and silly, a bird of courage.” If Franklin’s argument had prevailed and the turkey, rather than the bald eagle, had become the national symbol, would we still be eating them? Would the turkey farmers still be in business?

Now, they are just silly, stupid and held upside down to be de-blooded while Sarah Palin cheers. Oh, the AXE dislikes turkey. At the Catholic West Point, we had turkey a lot. Also, tuna fish. I had more than enough of the stuff. Mrs. AXE one year decided that capon would be a nice compromise. Nope. It was awful in its own way. I do prefer a nice bit of hobbit, with some fava beans and San Pelligrino...