READING FOR THANKSGIVING WEEK (11-27-14)

NASA will pay you $170 per day to lie in bed ... for 70 days (Business Insider).

Fox News' Erickson tells Republicans to shut down the government (Media Matters).

Selling like "hot cakes"? Not so fast. Hot cakes are actually not selling well at all (Bloomberg).

Switzerland may give every citizen $2,600 a month (Motherboard).


THANKSGIVING NOTES

How to win Thanksgiving: A Holiday guide to arguing with right wing relatives (Salon).

The myth of Thanksgiving can not erase the theft of Native American land through decimation (Truth Out).

CONSERVATIVES: GETTING IT WRONG FOR OVER 30 YEARS
30 years of conservative nonsense: What a history of error (Vanity Fair).

Stockman: Reagan history is revisionist mythology (Bloomberg Businessweek).

House Republicans pass a bill that makes it harder for scientists to advise the EPA (Think Progress).

Gov. Scott Walker: Denying health care to low-income people helps them 'live the American dream' (Think Progress).


CONSERVATIVES BEING CONSERVATIVE (they never disappoint)
Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father (Patheos).

Bible Belt leads the nation in consumption of gay porn (Patheos).

Ted Cruz: "Net neutrality is against the will of God" (Amplifyng Glass).

Republican push to promote women stumbles as white guys sweep committee chair posts, again (Huffington Post).


FERGUSON, MISSOURI NOTES
Justice Scalia explains what was wrong with the Ferguson Grand Jury (Think Progress)

Black man killed by police? McCulloch does it again (Nation of Change).

6 revelations from the Michael Brown Grand Jury documents, including one witness' journey entry: "Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks Niggers ..." (Mother Jones).

Ferguson protests and Fox News' contempt for free speech (Media Matters).

"We are starting to breakdown": Why so many Americans feel traumatized (Salon).

Tim Wise: Most white people in America are completely oblivious (Raw Story).


THE CORPORATE FAVORS CONTINUE
Congress poised to eliminate key tax breaks for middle class, provide permanent tax breaks for corporations (Nation of Change).

Seven candidates for corporate rip-off of the year award (Nation of Change).


BILL COSBY'S RAPE PROBLEM
Bill Cosby's legacy recast: Accusers speak in detail of sexual assault allegations (Washington Post).

The comedy set that started it all ... Hannibal Buress jokes about Bill Cosby scolding younger comics for using foul language in their routines when "You're a rapist" (Philadelphia Magazine).


MISCELLANEOUS
University of California set to raise tuition over Governor Brown's objections (NY Times).

Mail monitoring rarely denied, Postal Service says (NY Times).

14 disturbed drawings done by children (Answers).

As Germany marked the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev warns of new cold war (The Guardian)

- Mark