Today is Thanksgiving, which is supposed to be about remembering what you're grateful for. I'm grateful for the freedom of the human spirit. To show my gratitude, and to help spread freedom by spreading the Truth, I wanted to add two more sheeple to our list: Jeff Jarvis and Rand Fishkin. Here's why they were added:

Jeff Jarvis. Jeff resorted to calling 9/11 Truthers "nutjobs" and "assholes." I'm not going to stoop to Jeff's level and respond with insults that have no basis in reality -- instead I'm going to give Professor Jarvis a homework assignment: go watch Loose Change, go watch 9/11 Mysteries, go watch Improbable Collapse (all of which can be watched on Google Video for free), go check out what countless government professionals (like 27 year CIA veteran Ray McGovern) have to say about 9/11. That way, Jeffrey, you won't look like an idiot when you talk about 9/11. I'm also going to encourage his students to think about what type of education they're getting when their professor of journalism doesn't even know the simplest details about the most important event of this millennium -- and is obviously oblivious to things like Operation Mockingbird and media manipulation on 9/11. Be a good boy and do your homework before you bash people, Jeffrey. It'll save you from looking like an idiot.

Rand Fishkin. On the horrifyingly awful Blog Action Day (see our previous coverage here), SEOMoz participated, and told YOU to cut down on your carbon emissions. They did not allow dissenting viewpoints because, according to SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin, anti-global warming hoax statements are political statements, and they don't do politics on SEOMoz. LOL. I know doublethinking is trendy these days, but that's really a ridiculous statement. Global warming is an ENTIRELY political issue; witness how global warming cheerleader Al Bore is calling for a global carbon tax -- an imposition all of us will have to accept if it is approved.

Clearly, SEOMoz is happy to talk about politics. The no politics policy is really a no controversial politics policy. So long as it's trendy like global warming and it won't hurt the link acquisition process, it's cool.

Adding Rand to the list of sheeple is particularly saddening for me, as I have a sneaking suspicion that deep down Rand is a kook. I never met the guy in person, but he seems to be fairly idealistic, very well-intentioned, very intelligent, and fiercely ambitious. In other words, he has the same characteristics that the kooks on our list -- billionaire Mark Cuban and serial billion dollar company starter Marc Andreessen -- have as well.

But, alas, Rand, like fellow sheeple Matthew Cutts and Jason Calacanis, has chosen to take the easy road -- to bow in service to the lie, rather than stand in service to the Truth. And so, unfortunately, he has chosen to be a sheeple.

Of course, our purpose here in Kid Mercury's World is not to push people down; rather it is to challenge them to become the hero they were born to be. So, if you're a sheeple on our list and are reading this, fear not: you will be given an opportunity to have your name removed from the list of sheeple in the near future. Whether or not you will take the proverbial red pill when it is offered to you, though, is something you will have to decide for yourself.