covers A pay-what-you-want holiday music compilation raising money to save independent music venues Thom Dunn

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

comedy Father Guido Sarducci's idea for the Five Minute University Gareth Branwyn

christianity Watch: Michele Bachmann said she spent Christmas telling her 3- and 6-year-old grandkids that the "eternal fires" of Hell await them Mark Frauenfelder

christmas Enjoy these Christmas Episodes of "The Norman Lear Effect" Elías Villoro

festivus Happy Festivus to all the Christmas curmudgeons of the world! Carla Sinclair

LGBTQI+ positivity Whiskey ad sends message of love and celebration Jennifer Sandlin

holiday shows Create a new holiday tradition with "Stick Man" Jennifer Sandlin

paper snowflakes A gallery of cool paper snowflakes Jennifer Sandlin

artists Flea Market Follies: Hunting for Kitsch with Mitch O'Connell Lee Keeler

Herschel Walker NYT: "Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Fathers, Has a Second Son He Doesn't See" Mark Frauenfelder

lauren boebert Rep. Lauren Boebert tells Christian audience she prays that Biden's "days be few" Carla Sinclair

art A Renaissance painting found in an elderly woman's home Devin Nealy

Boing Boing Gadgets Deliver the party with these boozy pinatas and greeting cards Boing Boing's Shop

STEM Thumbing through a 2022 Estes rocketry catalog Gareth Branwyn

movies The first image for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is here Devin Nealy

mental health Self-proclaimed Sith Lord arrested for trying to assassinate Queen of England Thom Dunn

Christmas songs Greg Lake and Ian Anderson performing "I Believe in Father Christmas" Gareth Branwyn

gifts Three great art books that'll arrive by Christmas Bob Knetzger

tabloids World War III and Biden-Harris "knife fight" in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan