Operation AXIOM
Your humble narrator is thankful for this world of woe & wonder, for his kith & kin, for his nimbleness of mind & strength of body, & for the innumerable blessings with which he has been graced. Give thanks to He Who is the author of all splendor, of all our joys & sorrows. Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers, to you & yours!

Science!
A latter-day phantom island: Sandy Island-link. Neat! It is interesting that in this day & age, with our supposed crowd-sourced, cloud-stored, digital omnipotence, when Man's fallen nature is denied & perfection is assumed to be but a few lines of code away, that such a basic error could persist for so long & be so widely repeated. My congratulations to the French on the accuracy of their nautical charts, triumphing where Google succumbed to pride & failed.

"No, GIR! Those piggies are for science. Science!"

The Rebel Black Dot Song of Thanksgiving
Susan Egan, "The Turkey and the Stuffing" from Winter Tracks (T.L.A.M.)