“Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.”

– A.C. Swinburne

Thanksgiving: everyone’s favorite holiday. Just the right length, all the food we can hold, and time to relax before that other holiday season begins. So, let’s pretend we are children again and answer the age-old question: What were you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Was it something special, or the usual health, family, “good food, good meat, good Lord, let’s eat”?

It’s Thanksgiving time again. What a great holiday. Why is it, then, this day has almost been forgotten by the advertising world?

Apparently, the holiday season starts the first of October by printing ads for Halloween. Then towards the end of the month, Christmas commercials are being shown. Notice anything missing?

That’s right. The third Thursday in November, the day we’re supposed to give thanks for all the good things in our life, the day that immediately hits your taste buds with promises that once a year you can stuff yourself with as much as your stomach can hold.

The election is over and we know who our president and members of Congress are going to be. Let’s take a few minutes and look at some of the other winners and losers in Georgia politics.

Winner: Gov. Nathan Deal.

After he took a beating on the T-SPLOST transportation tax, the governor recovered to lead the charge on the charter school constitutional amendment, approved by more than 58 percent of the state’s voters.

Regardless of how the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney plays out, Georgia Republicans should have something significant to celebrate the day after the election.

Just eight years after the GOP took control of the General Assembly in the 2004 elections, they are poised to win more than two-thirds control of both legislative chambers (that’s 120 seats in the House of Representatives and 38 in the Senate).