Thanksgiving dinner recipes (Recession Recipes) – inexpensive brussel sprout, potato, stuffing, and turkey dishes Simple and Cheap Thanksgiving Table Setting (Blog n’ Tell)) – tips and tricks for a simple, earthy look Recession Proof Harvest Thanksgiving Table Silverware Cones and Place Setting Cards (Maya Road Design Team) – Thanksgiving table setting crafts project

Listen free to the Martha Stewart Thanksgiving Hotline today, till 7pm ET, at the SIRIUS satellite radio site. Famous chefs are answering Thanksgiving-related questions. Also, you can download for free the Martha Stewart Living Thanksgiving Hotline Cookbook. Even through your Internet connection, you can smell the classiness…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the House and Senate health care bills. Online, they have posted a “Health Care Toolkit” consisting of talking points, suggested emails and letters, videos from their national ad campaign, and other material for those who’d like to stall the current push toward reform. But here’s an extract from a [...]

From the author of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!, Help! Mom! Hollywood is in My Hamper! and Help! Mom, The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!, now comes… Makes a perfect stocking-suffer for any junior Fox News viewer…

Kevin Barbieux of Nashville writes a blog called The Homeless Guy. Barbieux describes himself as “chronically homeless,” as defined by HUD. “I became homeless for the first time in February of 1982,” he writes. “I have been in and out of homelessness ever since, experiencing about 13 years worth of literal homelessness.”

In this post, he gives advice to a Nashville religious organization that administers to the homeless, offering a trenchant first-person account of the homeless life.

Click on an image to see it full size. More photos here.

More dramatic video on YouTube from the student protests at the University of California regents meeting at UCLA. Students are angry that in response to a severe state budget crisis, the regents have voted to raise fees at the public university system 32%, which pushes tuition to more than $10,000. The first video shows students [...]

Yesterday we highlighted one man’s poignant and self-reflective post on his one-year anniversary of being laid off. But the guy is also very funny, as evidenced by his blog’s

The blog Jobless and Less documents one man’s experience looking for a job in this brutal recession. His bona fides:
I am a marketing professional with an MBA. But after 4 layoffs in 9 years, I know all about unemployment and this whole job search thing too. I started Jobless and Less to share what it’s like.

Here’s a post, written on his one-year anniversary of getting the boot, that is poignantly evocative of the long-term unemployment experience.

Remember our post on the blog Repaired Things? You do? Well that is quite flattering, thank you so much. Anyhoo…as we wrote at the time, many people these days don’t have the dough to replace their broken stuff. Where Repaired Things catalogues more-routine home solutions, There, I Fixed It goes one better, documenting “epic kludges [...]