Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the U.S. is barreling down on it like a salt-stained maroon Subaru Forester hydroplaning uncontrollably toward a utility pole on one of our nation's many fine turnpikes. That's because the country is currently being savagely walloped by what one can only assume are Storms of…
A photo showing a Walmart food drive asking employees to donate canned goods to help fellow employees who can't afford a Thanksgiving dinner is once again drawing attention to the company's staggeringly low wages.
Butterball has announced a nationwide shortage of turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving. The reason? "We experienced a decline in weight gains on some of our farms causing a limited availability of large, fresh turkeys," said a non-worrisome company statement.
With each passing year, it seems, American retailers find some way to make to make "Black Friday," the terrifying shopping day after Thanksgiving, a worse experience for their poor employees. This year is no exception.
Sloopy's owner Devin Contreras says his chihuahua broke out a few impromptu dance moves after spotting the family's leftover turkey on the kitchen counter.
What is the best way to prepare Thanksgiving leftovers? Cold, right out of the fridge? Warmed to scalding in the microwave? Standing in your kitchen naked? Lady Gaga goes with naked.
This year's Thanksgiving parade was kind of a heartbreaker after a a Yonkers man died while clowning. But things may be getting a little bit worse.
Yesterday, we brought you a bunch of people who thought that you really shouldn't be going to the club on Thanksgiving night. Some of us heeded that advice and stayed home to watch Jets players run into their teammates asses. Others, though, hit the club undeterred, because Thursday is still Thursday and bloated…
If you are reading these words, congratulations! You made it through Black Friday unscathed. (Or you landed in a hospital that offers wifi, in which case: congratulations on being rich.)
Once Thanksgiving dinner is over and football is done and you've played card games with your grandparents and everyone is asleep, you begin to realize that being back at home (or somewhere else in the suburbs) can be pretty boring. What's there to do? How about the club? You know all those awesome clubs in your…
The beautiful thing about Thanksgiving is that no two plates are ever the same; no two stuffings or pies or turkey legs are the same. It's a melting pot! Like America! So what does your meal look like today? Are you feasting on a deep fried turducken? Or is this year's fare a slab of tofurkey with a side of…
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Today you will sit down with your family or your friends and you will tell them what you are thankful for. It's a Thanksgiving tradition, and a good one — we should all be thankful for having roofs over our heads and food to eat (if we do) and for even being able to participate in a holiday called Thanksgiving in the…
Call it the Seinfeldization of America, if you want. Somewhere in the last 20 years, a great mass of our fellow citizens decided that transforming every quotidian obligation of their existence into a Sisyphean fucking ordeal was an acceptable substitute for having something to say.
It's 2012, which means that your Thanksgiving won't be complete without a well-wishing on Twitter from some corporation that probably wants you to give them money for something shitty. Don't you just feel warmer already?
Hey everyone, how's your morning going? Did you get up early to run the Turkey Trot? That's a rhetorical question because of course you did not, that would be a complete waste of time: today is Thanksgiving.
It's Thanksgiving, and you promised your friends and family that you'd cook something. But in preparation for seeing your friends and family, you've already started to drink. A lot. No worries — we've got five great recipes designed for the already drunk.
More than anything this Thanksgiving I am thankful for this video of a San Diego anchorwoman giving a turkey call the old college try.
Even the most verbally combative families will eventually run out of things to talk about if Thanksgiving dinner drags on too long.
The White House is putting its annual turkey pardon to a Facebook poll, allowing anyone to vote on which turkey—Cobbler or Gobbler—will be blessed by Obama this Thanksgiving. But what could have been a profound glimpse into the very heart of Death is just a meaningless gimmick, because neither turkey is actually at…
