Vox Sentences: Special Thanksgiving edition

1. Special Thanksgiving edition

• Note: this is the last Sentences of the week. We'll be back on Monday.

• Gearing up to argue with Uncle Jerry about Ferguson? Here's the one guide you need.

  [Vox / Jenée Desmond-Harris]

• Here are four ways the holidays could literally kill you.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Where your Thanksgiving food comes from, in maps.

  [Washington Post / Roberto Ferdman]

• These are the best Thanksgiving sides, in order.

  [Vox / Alex Abad-Santos]

• I don't know what it even means to say that we're doing Thanksgiving bread rolls wrong but apparently we are.

  [Slate / LV Anderson]

• FDR once tried to move Thanksgiving as a form of economic stimulus.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Thanksgiving costumes used to be a thing, and a pretty offensive thing at that.

  [The Atlantic / Megan Garber]

• Right-wing talk radio loves the story that the Pilgrims tried and rejected Communism. They didn't.

  [Slate / Joshua Keating]

• Flying back this weekend? Here's how airlines could fix the boarding process (Southwest already does it).

  [Vox / Joss Fong]

2. Misc.

• Here are a few of the many ways in which prosecutors bungled the Michael Brown case.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• Civil rights activist Michelle Alexander explains how hard it was to explain the grand jury's decision to her 10 year old son.

  [NYT / Michelle Alexander]

• Obama's rewriting immigration enforcement agencies' priorities, which could be as big as deal as his deportation protection program.

  [New Republic / Margo Schlanger]

• The Supreme Court will review the EPA's regulations of coal plant mercury pollution. That could matter for global warming.

  [New Republic / Rebecca Leber]

• The agency's new proposed smog rules are already sparking industry opposition.

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

3. Verbatim

• "For Jon and Cristina — The bitch set us all up! Congratulations. Mayor for Life, Marion Barry."

  [Marion Barry via WSJ / Jon Hilsenrath]

• "The studies surrounding Alcoholics Anonymous are some of the most convoluted, hilariously screwed-up research I have ever seen. They go wrong in ways I didn’t even realize research could go wrong before."

  [Slate Star Codex / Scott Alexander]

• "I talk to my therapist. She says, 'I don’t even know what to tell you, this is so fucking far outside anything I’m aware of.'"

  [Zoe Quinn via Businessweek / Sheelah Kolhatkar]

• "Maybe there is no real you. There are just the yous that you can construct, and the you that you can make that seems the most accepted and respected."

  [Overcoming Bias / Robin Hanson]

• "I tell you Ned it was hard to see little children on their knees have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized."

  [Silas Soule via WSJ / Michael Allen]

• "Being born a citizen of a rich country in North America or Europe is a lot like being born into the nobility in the Middle Ages."

  [Joseph Carens to NYT / Gary Gutting]