With your help, I’d say the first annual NextDraft Good News Only Pre-Thanksgiving Extravaganza was a hit. Your submissions, kind words, and continued readership make this a good news day indeed. Have an excellent holiday weekend. Or as they might say on Fox News: “Merry Christmas Thanksgiving.” Let’s close it out with a few more stories…

+ Moderate alcohol consumption improves foreign language skills. (Vaping makes you fluent…)

+ “The machines—likely for use in bars and restaurants across the island—recycle empties right before your drunken eyes. Push the container through a bottle-shaped hole, then watch as a vacuum system” does its thing. Machine Crushes Beer Bottles Into Sand to Save New Zealand Beaches. (Bonus: you can come home from the beach smelling like beer without anyone giving you a hard time…)

+ I’m not even sure this is good news, but it’s related to good news. And this Australian politician is remarkable. Bob Katter on same sex marriage (and crocodiles).

+ Sacha Baron Cohen offers to pay Borat mankini fines.

+ This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat. (Sadly, the rocket doesn’t have room for all the other flat Earthers.)

+ It’s a Japanese show called Slipper Stairs. I can’t really add anything to that.

+ And finally, if you need some additional binge watching material, here’s The What’s list of shows to try out.