After School Snack

Happy New Year, Snackers! So ... it's been a little quiet around here lately. We know. Used to be, we'd post 4-5 times a day, but ov...

So I take the kid to see Santa. I was pretty sure she wouldn't cry, but I didn't expect this look completely devoid of emotion. She ...

27 As a child, my older cousins would make me fight their next door neighbors, who were twins my same age (I assume they're still twins...

Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation. Ugh, yuck, and ouch.

When I was little, we always had an elaborate angel topping our tree. You know: the kind with the stiffened muslin fabric skirt, the flowing...

Horrible . It would only have been horribler if they worked in a Christmas-spirit angle: ALBANY, NY—In one of the most merciful disasters in...

Sunday's Time Magazine had a short article about the Gömböc , an object which - without a motor, counterweight, or any other assistance...

Readers have surely been waiting to hear more about the Swedes who have to live in the town of Fjuckby : The hapless inhabitants of Fjuckby...

Dave Zirin, one of the only pinko sportswriters in the business, offers an interesting analysis of the media furor over the murder of footba...

All about sneezing,, which can expel snot and spit at up to 100 mph.

An interesting new website, ZipSkinny, lets you get basic demographic information on any zip code and to compare up to 20 zip codes. Here...

Well. This may just have solidified my decision as to whom I'll vote for in the upcoming primaries. (I admit I was leaning in that direc...

In a bit of a progressive nod to Christopher's post on the left lean of the academy, this edition of Wednesday Lyric Blogging is for Woo...