Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  A celebration of Food and Family.  Well Food anyway.  The Family bit can be a mixed blessing.  But family relations and relatives are where we get some of our most entertaining stories.  Like when uncle Marvin fell asleep watching the Big Game and commenced to snore so loud that nearby wine glasses started to go off like small bombs, spraying wine along the spotless white table-cloth and shards of glass into the once delicious leftovers.  And of course the family dog, Calvin, decided he could do a half decent job of imitating Uncle Marvin, and by golly he did, and pretty soon half the dogs in the neighborhood are chiming in trying to out snore each other.  The family cat, Buffy, decided to climb up close to Marvin’s mouth so she can see how such a small orifice can produce such a terrifying phenomenon.  A family friend, Claude, a great fan of the Left Behind series decided this must be the rapture and edged towards the door so that his Leaving will be possibly unnoticed.  And, of course, Aunt Gerda, having downed 3 glasses of Vodka and orange juice, decided that now is the time to announce that she has made herself chairman of the Re-Elect Richard Nixon campaign, despite the fact that he is rather low in the Polls, and is rumored to have been dead for the last 17 years or so.  But that’s just Thanksgiving!  And we really do have a lot to be thankful for don’t we.  After all, Richard Nixon really is dead.  Isn’t he?