Coffee Talk, the week of 8 October 2012

Given the tenor of Monday's Lynnsight, I should think that the letters that are baffled and probably horrified that Canada has its Thanksgiving on a different day than Congress decreed will be accompanied by letters from the Usual Suspects about how they wish some horrible, mother-hating man passed a horrible, mother-hating law prohibiting poor, put-upon mothers with noooooooooo help and nooooooooo time to themselves from beating children for having a gag reflex and a sense of taste and thus rejecting certain foodstuffs.