10. Fitness/health/weight gain/loss
9. Whether or not someone/a bunch of people was/are thugs, because none of us knows what we're talking about, OK?
8. The Affordable Care Act
7. Someone's increasing inability to control his or her alcohol intake
6. The latest thing the baby did
5. Wendy Davis
4. ISIS/ISIL/The Islamic State
3. Whether or not anyone not at the table with whom anyone at the table has previously had sexual congress looks good or bad or pregnant
2. Black Friday
1. What happened at the Thanksgiving table last year
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This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2014.