By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests.
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A great star shines over a stable in Bethlehem. The Three Kings arrive and kneel before the Holy Family.
BALTHAZAR: We come bearing gifts for the newborn king, O Holy Ones.
MARY: Just put them on the table. We’re doing a white elephant thing this year.
MELCHIOR: White elephant?! Where?
MARY: No, we take turns opening gifts. You can keep the one you open, or switch with anyone else. What could possibly go wrong?
GASPAR: The King of Kings was meant to bring peace on Earth. This will surely cause hatred, greed, and jealousy.
MARY: Oh, it’ll be fun. I’ll start. Ooooh. Gold! Now THAT is a present. Thank you! You’re up, Melchior.
MELCHIOR: I want to go on the record saying I think this is a bad idea. But let’s see. Hmmm, myrrh. I’m going to be honest—I’m a wise man, and even I don’t know what myrrh is. So, I’ll switch it for the gold. Is that how this works?
The finale of Doctor Who spinoff The War Between The Land and The Sea ends with plot holes, an unconvincing love story, and sloppy writing.
Dear Valued Child,
This letter was slipped into your stocking to inform you that we recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (NPMS) that may have compromised your personal data—namely, the thousands of hours of footage we have of when you are sleeping, as well as when you are awake.
How did the breach occur?
Shortly after Thanksgiving, we detected that a person within the NPMS organization (identity redacted for anonymity) clicked on a link entitled, “Winner!!! Claim FREE 6XL Red Coat With Fur Trim Now!” Regrettably, this turned out to be a phishing scheme that exploited a vulnerability in our system. We now understand that the innocent enchantment of believing hearts is not a reliable form of cybersecurity.
While we have yet to pinpoint the attacker’s identity, we have narrowed the suspects down to three previous perpetrators of crimes against the season: E. Scrooge, Mr. Grinch, and Big City Lady-Lawyer With Christmas Eve Deadline.
Corporate power has made winter sports like skiing and snowboarding the activities of the rich and famous.
Hedda, our 12-year-old Jack Russell terrier.
Which is saying something, because worthless has been in charge of the West for generations. There are no leaders in charge of any major Western country who aren’t functionally morons. Europe is run by utter idiots who want war with Russia, refuse to acknowledge that Ukraine is losing, are actively speeding up their loss of […]
Statens betalningar skapar de medel som sedan används av privata aktörer för att betala skatter och köpa statspapper. Staten är självfinansierad i sin egen valuta – staten är ju ensam utgivare och kan därför omöjligen låna samma pengar som bara den kan skapa.
Staten är således finansiellt obegränsad i sin egen valuta och kan alltid operativt […]
For one magical night a year, Santa and his friends bring holiday cheer to millions of people around the world. For the rest of the 364 nights? They’re just like us: hustling to get by in an ever-shrinking global economy.
Rudolph hasn’t had time for any reindeer games lately, thanks to the extra shifts he’s picked up as a Lyft driver. That glowing nose is easy for drunk people to find on Saturday night, but he wishes they’d stop asking him if it has a strobe setting.
The elves have still been working at Santa’s workshop, of course, but on weekends they supplement by working at one of Jeff Bezos’ sweatshops. Try their new line of Amazon elf-ssentials.
In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities
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Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.
The right to protest, the right to free speech, and the right to be heard are absolutely essential in any democratic society. That’s why these rights are clearly enshrined in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. The history of Britain is itself one of protest, protests that […]
The absolute madness of the proposed new food rules. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2025 Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a […]
I have limited time today to write a blog post and last night I was sent a new video that I recently recorded with my research colleague at Kyoto University, Professor Fujii where we talk for some hours on the topic – Japan at a Crossroads: Fiscal Policy, China, and the Growth. It was a…
For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years.
Again and again, I’d heard from young people who lamented the astronomical and ever-rising cost of art school. For many college-level art programs, the total cost to undergraduates is now over $100,000 a year. I hope we can all agree that charging students $400,000 for a four-year degree in visual art is objectively absurd. And this prohibitive cost has priced tens of thousands of potential students out of even considering undertaking such an education.
For years, I mentioned this issue to friends in and out of the art world, and everyone, without exception, agreed that the system was broken. Even friends I know who teach at art schools agreed that the cost was out of control, and these spiraling costs were contributing to the implosion of many undergraduate and postgraduate art programs.
Users need to revolt against what will very likely be an even more widespread effort to censor voices critical of Israel.
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 21, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy The $79 Trillion Heist Harold Meyerson, December 03, 2025 [The American Prospect] …As Emma Janssen has reported in these pages, marketers are going where the money is, like bank robber Willie Sutton. First-class and business-seat travel on the airlines is […]
The intransigence of Econ 101 points to a dark side of economics — namely that the absence of power-speak is by design. Could it be that economics describes the world in a way that purposely keeps the workings of power opaque? History suggests that this idea is not so far-fetched … The key to wielding […]
The democratic risks of our housing crisis, the big AI short, and more from The Lever this week.
Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, el Comité Nobel desobedeció los principios entronizados en sus documentos fundacionales, así como la ley sueca, alega Julian Assange en un escrito legal explosivo revisado por The Grayzone. El gobierno sueco violó sus propias leyes al concederle el Premio Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado, según un escrito legal explosivo introducido por […]
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Over on Doctor Who, U.N.I.T. has its fans, but it's more akin to "comfort food" than "cool," especially given the dark turn that it's taken.