Thanksgiving Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and though I'd share.

- David Sedaris: Punching Down. I'm a fan and if you're not familiar with his work you may want to listen to the article in Sedaris' own voice.

- A portrait of the Aztec's Tenochtitlan 

- Morgan Housel on The Full Reset. Good history and life lessons. Have no sunk costs.

- VDH with a Toast to the Old Breed. Works for Thanksgiving too.

Cortes and Mexico

On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, people from Mexico's smallest state Tlaxcala say their ancestors were liberators.

Some historians are revisiting "the accusation of treachery, arguing that Tlaxcalans and other city states were in fact fighting a war of liberation against the oppressive Mexica (as the Aztecs were known)." Interesting history.