christmas Twisted Sister un-ruins Mariah Carey's Christmas earworm Rusty Blazenhoff

santa Sorry kids, there's a Santa shortage Annie Rauwerda

Kids Santa Claus dies of a heart attack in front of room full of Russian children Séamus Bellamy

Homeless man medicated, jailed for insisting he was himself Ellsworth Toohey

law How one man's disastrous 1969 Swiss ski holiday created modern tourism consumer protection laws Ellsworth Toohey

lawsuits Nutty lawsuit: Man stung by scorpion sues Venetian Resort in Las Vegas for ruining his sex life Carla Sinclair

education Teacher made third grade students enact terrifying scenes from the Holocaust with Jewish student playing Hitler David Pescovitz

murder How a successful author went broke buying toys to overturn a wrongful conviction and got stalked by Nazis Thom Dunn

christmas Dancing With Myself: Christmas edition Miss Cellania

amazon Amazon removes Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments Rob Beschizza

Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow

roleplaying games What's new in the world of tabletop gaming? Gareth Branwyn

Saint Nicholas Santa's tomb possibly found, Christmas ruined Robert Spallone

Funny Inspired Christmas baubles for a surveillance business-model Xmas Cory Doctorow

books Kate Milford's Greenglass House: lyrical, tense YA mystery Cory Doctorow

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing

london Three Friends, a Breakdown, and a Lawsuit James Siddle