Texas U.S. Rep. Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and a Republican presidential hopeful. He is known for his libertarian views and is the only Republican candidate who opposes the war in Iraq. He’s served the 14th District since 1997 and served the 22nd in the 1970s. He ran in the 1988 presidential election as a Libertarian. Last week, Ron Paul announced that he raised $4.2 million in one day, $4 million of that online.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd is a Democratic presidential hopeful. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1974 and served there until he was elected in 1980 to the Senate, where he has served ever since.

David E. Lane has the kind of program bio that rootless post-college types love. His bachelor’s degrees are in philosophy and documentary filmmaking. His résumé includes “waiter, roofer, painter, screenplay doctor, substitute philosophy lecturer, custom furniture designer, dishwasher, replacement window installer, baker’s asst., paralegal, vinyl-siding salesman; he also owned and operated a landscaping business, ran an acting/directing workshop in New York City, taught Stanley Kaplan SAT prep courses, taught English in Paris, was a street vendor of self-made toys and jewelry in Mexico City, and worked on a fishing trawler.”

You don’t have to make the pie yourself.

If you don’t have time to roll out crusts and labor over fillings, plenty of places are still taking orders for your Thanksgiving dessert.

Here are a few odds and ends to tide us over until the Patriots finally get back to work against what once was their most bitter rival in the late great AFL, when they face the Buffalo Bills on Football Night in America Sunday evening.

As we begin to start thinking about considering the holiday shopping season, it’s important that we not let our consumerist society take advantage of us. We must remember what’s truly important amongst all this gift-giving.

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