Pro-Huntsman Ad Asks N.H. Voters: ‘Why Haven’t We Heard Of This Guy?’

A super PAC ad airing in New Hampshire over the Thanksgiving holiday promotes Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman as the “conservative … who actually has a chance to win,” but then poses the question: “Why haven’t we heard of this guy?” If you live in New Hampshire, the answer, arguably, is you haven’t been paying [...]

Study Lends Support To Long-Term Treatment With Statins

Standing in line at the drugstore or Costco might lead you to believe that just about everybody is taking a drug for high cholesterol. And it’s true that drugs to fight cholesterol, such as Zocor, now generic, and Lipitor, which is about to be, are the most frequently prescribed in the nation. Even now, after [...]

The Muppet Fans Who Made ‘The Muppets’ Movie

Nicholas Stoller made his directorial debut with 2008′s raunchy comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which starred Jason Segel as a guy who had to reassess his life after his girlfriend of five years dumped him. Segel famously dropped his towel in the opening scenes of the film, which led The New York Times to call him [...]

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Still More Tryptophan-tastic Tomes To See You Through Your Turkey Coma

After the ceremonial carbo-loading we call Thanksgiving, with its sundry attendant rituals (Cutting Off Uncle Joe Before He Gets Out His Guitar; Refusing To Engage Aunt Janet On The Relative Nutritive Merits of Pepper Spray; Attempting to Steer Uncle Ted Off Of His Colonoscopy Story), you will have a free Friday. Enjoying it will prove [...]

Yemen’s President Signs Deal To Transfer Power

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh accepted a deal Wednesday to end his more than three decades in power, making him the latest leader to be ousted in the Arab Spring uprisings. Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia early Wednesday and signed the agreement at a ceremony in the capital city of Riyadh. The accord, brokered by [...]

It’s ScuttleButton Time!

This is the last ScuttleButton of the month — see, there is something to be thankful for this year — so you really shouldn’t miss out on solving it. You now have two weeks to figure this one out. But of course you won’t be able to do that if you don’t know how to [...]

For These Bargains We Are About To Receive, Can We Be Truly Thankful?

“It’s no longer Black Friday, it’s going to be Black Thanksgiving from here on out.” That was Marshal Cohen, a retail industry analyst, speaking to The Los Angeles Times in an article from earlier this week explaining that while stores used to remain closed on Thanksgiving and only open for their door-busting, line-forming, occasionally riot-inducing [...]

Fact-Checking The GOP Debate: What The Candidates Said On National Security

Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact.com and Washington bureau chief for The St. Petersburg Times, wrote about about how candidates at Tuesday night’s GOP debate rated on PolitiFact’s Truth-O-Meter for PolitiFact.com and It’s All Politics: The CNN Republican debate on national security Tuesday night had some of the most lively and substantive discussion of the campaign. [...]

Revived Thanksgiving Tradition: Oyster Ice Cream

Chef José Andrés grew up in Spain, but he has embraced Thanksgiving as a window into American history. That’s why the guests at his Thanksgiving dinner might be starting off with oyster ice cream. Oyster ice cream was a favorite of Mark Twain’s, Andrés explains on NPR’s Tell Me More, and it shows up in [...]