Inside the Beltway

Gobbler

Hold your horses; we’re not in a race.

Get that drumstick away from your face.

Now put your fork down

And stop making that frown.

You can eat when we finish the grace.

— F.R. Duplantier

Happy Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the one day set aside every year to enjoy a guilt-free meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries and all the trimmings.

If you are the host of such a feast this year, consider offering your guests a waiver: the Center for Consumer Freedom’s Thanksgiving Guest Liability and Indemnification Agreement. During this season when food cops, public health activists and trial lawyers are promoting hysteria about the nation’s expanding waistline, the center believes Thanksgiving should remain a holiday for giving thanks and indulging.

Dinner hosts can download the waiver (www.consumerfreedom.com) and protect themselves from lawsuits filed by guests on the following grounds:

1. Failure to provide detailed nutritional information

2. Failure to warn of the potential for overeating because food tastes too good and is provided at no cost

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