The nice thing about Thanksgiving is that it hasn't been corporatized. Halloween, yes; Xma$, yes—in fact, they've already been playing Xma$ music for weeks—but Thanskgiving remains blessedly uncontaminated by corporate marketroids trying to sell their shit. (OK, OK, butterball turkeys are way corporatized, but compared to Xma$? A bagatelle.)

At any rate, we are thankful for you, alert Corrente readers, so here are these changes:

1. If you can log in, you can now blog here (in Drupal-ese, "authenticated users" now get blogs. A decision taken back at our last LA meeting, but it took awhile to get to. Sorry.) Click the "Post of my blog" link in the sidebar.
1. Feel free to cross post and link back to your home blogs.
   
1. Front paging is at the discretion of the Fellows of The Mighty Corrente Building.
   
2. Decisions by the judges are arbitrary and final.
   
1. In case of ties, a Republican will be tossed
2. We also added a "buddy list." Except that, after lengthy and prayerful consideration, not, we used the word "moonbat" instead of the word "buddy." ("Buddy" makes me think of, erm, being invited out for ice cream. Ick.) So, if you make somebody your moonbat, their posts will get listed in a sidebar block. These are social networking/community building tools, or so I'm told.
3. To make blogging easier, we added a WYSIWYG toolbar, so you can click on the B button, and get bold, and so on. (The one thing you can't to is paste HTML angle brackets into the new editor. It won't understand them, and they will show up as angle brackets. Sorry.)

To add someone to your moonbat list:

1. Find the link in one of their posts that says "click to add to your moonbat list" and click it.
2. The profile page of the the post's author will appear.
3. Scroll down to "Moonbat actions" and click the link that says "Add…"
4. A confirmation page will appear. Click OK.

To remove someone from your moonbat list:

1. Click on the expanding "Fellow moonbats" link in your sidebar.
2. Your moonbat list will appear.
   
3. Click one of the links. That moonbat's profile page will appear.
4. Scroll down to "Moonbat actions" and click the remove link.
5. A confirmation page will appear. Click OK.

Support? Ask the bartender. Tell him the guy under the stairs sent you. And so to bed.