Things to be thankful for

-- My health and the love of my wife, family, and friends.

-- The brave men and women serving our country in the armed forces.

-- that America dumped the 109th Congress.

-- I'm thankful Rick Santorum will have more free time to find the WMD.

-- Really thankful we no longer have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense we had.

-- for "red state values" like protecting reproductive rights, supporting stem cell research, and rejecting discrimination.

-- I'm thankful Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who calls climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” will no longer chair the Senate environmental committee.

-- and that Al Gore helped the nation, and the world, face an inconvenient truth.

-- I'm thankful the Dixie Chicks aren’t ready to make nice.

-- I'm thankful Ted Haggard bought that crystal meth but never used it.

-- I'm thankful for "the Google" and "the email" (and the "series of tubes" that make them possible). I'm particularly thankful Maf54 isn't online right now.

-- that Keith Olbermann's ratings are up and Bill O'Reilly's ratings are down.

-- I am so thankful I won't ever have to spend Thanksgiving hunting with Dick Cheney.

-- and last but nor least, I'm thankful the "Decider" only gets to make the decisions 789 more days.

Have a very happy Thanksgiving

Agonist Radio tonight (and all week)

My blog buddy Sean-Paul Kelley is hosting his progressive radio program each evening this holiday week on KTSA-550 AM. Stream it live over the Web if you cannot listen in the San Antonio market. Here's a podcast from last night's program and his conversation with Nathan Newman about the just-settled Houston janitors strike. Here's tonight's schedule:

700-730: Intro segment, introduce the night's guests, main topic, poll question and call-ins, etc.

730-800: Cliff Schecter is a regular contributor to MSNBC, the Huffington Post, a National Political Correspondent for The Young Turks on Air America and proprietor of Cliffschecter.com online.

800-830: Ted Rall will discuss his new book, Silk Road To Ruin

830-900: Ciro Rodriguez to talk about his quest to knock off Henry Bonilla in the still-to-be-scheduled runoff election in CD-23.

900-930: Charles Kuffner.

930-1000: S-P BS'ing his way through the last 30 minutes of the show.

Call in (toll free) 800-299-KTSA.