Ten things I'm thankful for

1. Richard Stallman-- the father of free software. If not for Stallman, Linus Torvalds would be world famous as the inventor of nothing, and I'd be running Windows. God bless you Richard, even if you are an athiest.

2. My parents' divorce. My parents divorced when they were around my present age and I had just left home. Divorce can be painful for the children, even when the children are grown, but when you see your parents undergo wrenching change in midlife and go on to be succesful and happy, it can also become a helpful and instructive example for one to follow.

3. Jon Stewart and 4. Cat Litter for making life with six cats and George W. Bush bearable.

5. My Pedometer because I appear to be losing weight.

6. Michael J. Fox for helping to expose You-Know-Who for the ignorant, bullying, self-aggrandizing, and above all lying sack of you-know-what that he is, and always has been.

7. Blogger, for making me a published author and editor.

8. Keith Olbermann, for saying what needed to be said, and for finally making glasses on men sexy.

9. Family Dollar, for rendering Walmart superfluous.

10. William Shakespeare, for The Tempest.

Bonus: The Hives, for "Main Offendor"