http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/2004_11.php#056138 Michelle Malkin links to a Fox News story about Maryland school kids not being taught about the religious component of Thanksgiving's roots. From the headline, it seems the kids are being taught to thank "anybody but God" as part of... en-us http://drinkthis.typepad.com/main/2004/11/declaring_himse.html Stephen J. Williams, a 5th grade teacher at Stevens Creek School with an 8-year tenure in the Cupertino Union School District in California, has been ordered to refrain from using such documents as the Declaration of Independence as teaching tools http://sundriesshack.com/index.php?p=1094 For those of you who aren't regular Shack readers, I live in Maryland, not all that far from Washington, DC. Let me tell you, it can be a pretty interesting place to live sometimes. Take our school system, for instance. Inn my home county - Charles... http://massdiscussion.blogspot.com/2004/11/turkey-butchers.html Our friends over at the Butcher's Shop have a real interesting aside in a post about the first English-speaking Thanksgiving in America...and it's not the one we've all learned about in school. http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/056169.html One of the great things about blogging is that if you are too worn out from the rest of your life to put any thought into anything serious all you need to do is read. Eventually, you will find someone...