And if you’re not cooking your Thanksgiving meal, there are quite a few places where you can go out to eat. Just be sure to make a reservation, last week.

• Art and Soul: At this southern food restaurant you can enjoy buttermilk biscuits, cornbread, turkey, maple-glazed ham, mashed potatoes, chicken/apple stuffing and pies of the apple, pecan, and pumpkin varieties. And you even get leftovers: everyone is sent home with a roast turkey sandwich with gravy and cranberry sauce on the side. YUM.  Cost is $55 per person.
• CommonWealth: Spend thanksgiving at a British Pub. Why not? They’re offering a three course meal, including turkey, roast beef, collard greens and two different kinds of stuffing. Best part: it’s also an excellent spot to watch the football games. Cost is $35 per person.
• Rasika: You can spend thanksgiving with Indians of a different sort! Rasika is offering its normal menu, but is also serving a special plate of pistachio-and-cranberry-stuffed turkey breast with saffron-and-cashew sauce, butternut-squash bharta, and chili Brussels sprouts for $16.

Or, if you’re too lazy to cook or even make a reservation, you can order in a complete Thanksgiving meal from Marvelous Market, Organic To Go, Zola Wine and Kitchen or just about any supermarket in the area. A best bet for pies is Dangerously Delicious Pies in the Atlas District.

What to do with the family until they leave and you get your life back:

• Theater: See George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. The Pennsylvania ballet puts on what is considered to be the best production of this classic.
• Museums: The Smithsonian Museums will be open on Friday and it will be crowded! Other museum options include the Holidays on Display exhibit about the holidays and commercialism at the Museum of American History or “Oil,” photos by Edward Burtynsky at the Corcoran.
• Run: Before you indulge in pounds of turkey and stuffing and pie and more pie, you can participate in the Turkey Chase, a 10K race, a 2-mile walk/run in Bethesda or the DC Turkey Trot for Hunger, a 5K that raises money for So Others Might Eat.
• National Harbor: Head to the National Harbor for their Tree Lighting and Fireworks event. The evening includes the lighting of a 65-foot Christmas tree, a fireworks display, a light show, and singing from some people who won a reality show that no one ever watched.
• Give: This holiday season you, yes, even you, can do something good for the world. Food pantries are running low on food this year and here in DC you can donate food to Bread for the City, The Capital Area Food Bank, or Food and Friends. You could even be super nice and volunteer at any of these places to prepare or deliver food.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The New York Post reports:

A parody of Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue: An American Life” has been causing huge confusion — forcing Palin’s publishers HarperCollins to take out ads to direct buyers to the official version.

Colin Robinson, co-publisher of the book, compiled by Nation magazine staffers Betsy Reed and Richard Kim, told Page Six: “We have been contacted by numerous media outlets across the country asking for interviews with Sarah Palin, or companies offering security for her while on tour.

“One Web site not only thought we were Ms. Palin’s publishers but called the book ‘Going Rough.’

Do not tell Andrew Sullivan about this “going rough” business! [New York Post]

Umm, so what’s he going on about, anyway? Let’s read it, together:

Volunteer sign up for Obama’s Civilain National Security Force.It’s finally here as promised in Colorado speech!! Stimulos sgnup checks available. $60K to startearn bonusmoney for ratting on fellow citizens. Decoder ring for frast 100 applicants. Exciting career oprtunity to meet new people, bitch slap them and interogate them. Make interrogation fun again with the Obama CNSF. Promised in Colorado….DELIVERED IN WASHINGTON….AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE.

Ha, um, what?

Here is what this person sees when they close their eyes, at the home:

Say, aloud, whether you agree or disagree. No cheating, no go-backsies:

(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill
(2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare
(3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation
(4) Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check
(5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants
(6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges
(7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat
(8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act
(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion
(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership

Yahtzee!/Everyone loses.

[Daily Intel]

Today Sarah Palin is visiting the Villages, which, according to the Internet’s famous Talking Points Memo, “is a heavily Republican community that is a must-stop for campaigning politicians in a key battleground state. The Villages is in central Florida about 60 miles northwest of Orlando.” So Presidential speculation, etc. etc.! Your Wonkette had never even heard of the Villages or the crucial Republican Villages People, which is why Editor Jim Newell suggested we watch this commercial. So, this is what Sarah Palin is doing today! Levi Johnston wins this round by default. [YouTube, TPM]