Who are you giving thanks to this Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving may look like like a holiday for consumption, but it’s really a holiday for producers. It’s true.&

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Here come the ‘New Deniers’
Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. . . Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away. . . There is no helping it; Phil Jones has to go, and the longer he leaves it, the worse it will get.”                   

How to argue like a ‘Progressive’ – or to spot one
Always eager to help, Jeff Perren posts 16 Top Tips on How to Argue Like A Progressive - or to recognise when somebody is. It’s a useful list to help you spot one in the wild. His first tip: "Lie. All the time. " Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

The designer you treat like shit . . .
There’s a hilarious email exchange doing the rounds between a graphic designer and a client who wants hin to work for free [hat tip CJ Lambert]. Read it here: "Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free." I’d like to think it was all true. Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact author for permission to republish: (organon at ihug.co.nz)

Pero v Air New Zealand
I’m surprised and confused.  I woke to discover that the leading news this morning is the story of Air New Zealand’s bleating about Mike Pero chartering a plane to take families of Air New Zealand’s Erebus victims to the scene of the disaster on its 30th anniversary.  Air New Zealand call his charter flight for family members to fly over the site where 257 people died “deeply disrespectful” and “commercial opportunism of the worst kind.”