The dark and disturbing story of Father Christmas. (NSFW) picked by pulsisx 2 years ago

Schwarzenegger fires his brother-in-law from a state parks commission. Days later, Bobby Shriver, a councilman for Santa Monica pushed through a ban on powerful jets such as the one Arnold uses.

FAA stepped in and said that the city did not have the authority to ban such jets and could not provide a reasonable reason for the attempted ban. The council will take the FAA to court. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change.

Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing with renewable energy. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Makes a great gift around the holidays! picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

A short, humorous song. picked by gratheo 2 years ago

Being Santa in the Eighties was tough. Hip Hop didn't make it any better. Featuring Kool Moe Dee & Doug E. Fresh. picked by nesbyniccolo 11 months ago

Just ask Jesus and Santa picked by bigtonyboy 1 year ago

I don't mean to be one, but I can't help getting the mean side of me OUT this season. After Valentines Day, Christmas is one of my most detested holidays. No, Santa didn't skip my chimney the other year, and there's nothing wrong with my brain. I'm sure there are hoards of us who don't like the Christmas season. Not one bit. picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

Whoever is Bruce's Secret Santa should get him one of those memory improvement books. Or some Post-It Notes and a Sharpee and he can put it on the back of his guitar. picked by bigirishdude 1 week ago

Rare microbes found at poles make ice cream and artifical snow better. Santa Claus unavailable for comment. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

Santa Barbara, California, allows homeless to sleep in cars in 12 parking lots. The story focuses on one of these women and how she ended up in this situation. picked by princess2408 2 years ago

Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Sharing the results of psychological experiments (and the story of the Santa Cruz Strangler), he explains how we are all born with the capacity for empathy -- but we sometimes choose to ignore it. picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago

There is a debate raging among cigar and pipe aficionados as to whether Santa smokes a cigar or a pipe. picked by deb81hmge 11 months ago

A wildfire in Santa Barbara, California last month helped forge some unlikely bonds. Rescued from the Jesusita Fire, a 3-week old bobcat kitten and 3 day old fawn became fast friends. The animal rescue in California brought predator and prey together. But these babies simply took comfort in each other’s company, snuggling under a desk at a dispatch office for hours. picked by nateebiinature 4 months ago

Don't let your kids party on April 20th.
That's the message campus leaders are sending out to parents of first-year students of UC Santa Cruz.
The head party pooper, Felicia McGinty, vice-chancellor of student affairs, sent an e-mail to inboxes of UC Santa Cruz freshman parents, advising them that "4/20" is an age-old code for marijuana-laced festivities. picked by kakana 8 months ago

A scanned collection of Sears Wishbooks from 1944-85. We would flip through dreaming of what we wanted Santa to bring us. Also in the pre-internet, heck pre-bbs days, it was a veritable cornucopia of porn* as well :)
*was going to link to lingerie, bra, etc page but too slow on dial-up picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

He used a chemical process to extract opium from poppy plant pods, then converted the opium to morphine. He said he didn't know what he was doing was illegal. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

What horrific, disgusting abuse of animals have gotten them upset now? "Humiliating" Beluga Whales by making them wear Santa hats. Yeah. That's it. No, I'm serious. Where are you...come back here. This is a serious affront to the animals psyche! This also goes for you who have placed Santa Hats on your animal avatars! picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Beyond the high concrete walls and menacing guard towers of the Santa Martha Acatitla prison, past the barbed wire, past the iron gates, past the armed guards in black commando garb, sits a nursery school with brightly painted walls, piles of toys and a jungle gym. picked by jLoSsDh 2 years ago

As one example, there is an oil spill everyday at Coal Oil Point (COP), the natural seeps off Santa Barbara, California, where 20-25 tons of oil have leaked from the seafloor each day for the last several hundred thousand years picked by bernardblack 6 months ago