Basically, there are no safe and benign Thanksgiving dinner table topics this year. 
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! 
Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. 
Mobile users: Visit newsday.com/mattdavies or click on the link above to see Davies' cartoons

Basically, there are no safe and benign Thanksgiving dinner table topics this year. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Mobile users: Visit newsday.com/mattdavies or click on the link above to see Davies' cartoons

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