Some turkeys to be thankful for

George Will:
“People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.”
— Randall Jarrell,
“A Sad Heart at the Supermarket” 


This is not a Golden Age, which distinguishes it from no other age. Although we are told it is our duty to be morose about the nation’s trajectory, many satisfying, edifying or entertaining things have happened this year. So on Thanksgiving, which still keeps Super Bowl Sunday in second place on the list of days when Americans eat the most, gorge yourself on some reasons for feeling at least a bit grateful for 2011: 
A new genre of humor was born, the currency crisis joke. A Spaniard, an Italian and a Greek go into a bar. They drink until dawn. Who pays the tab? A German. 
The euro is unraveling and might dissolve the European Union, that product of transnational progressivism based on the belief that national sovereignty should be leached away to clever experts who, uninhibited by the consent of the governed, can create clever things like the euro.
In 2011, someone asked how an Amtrak employee with a $21,000 salary earned $149,000 in overtime
A week after Barack Obama cited an Ohio restaurant as a beneficiary of the Chrysler bailout, the restaurant closed.
...
 No one saw the possible problem with the word “despite” in this headline: “Gun crime continues to decrease, despite increase in gun sales.”...
Manning the ramparts on the wall of separation between church and state, a Seattle teacher required Easter eggs to be called “spring spheres.”...
The gun crime headline reminds me of the famous NY Times story with the theme that crime continues to decrease despite the increase in prison population.  Who knew?

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