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- Grub Street recounts 12 SantaCon horror stories in anticipation of this weekend's fratastic tradition.
- Texas kid who killed four in a drunken driving accident avoids jail because his wealthy parents never taught him right from wrong.
- The problem with the snooze button is that you still have to get up.
- A Philadelphia blogger is offering rave reviews for free food from restaurants.
- Some relationships are too real for this world, especially those that involve “timid and mystical” women who were listening to Bjork before it was cool.
- Don't fall asleep on your porch in wintertime, or else you might lose some limbs.
- Teen tweets callously after killing Bronx grandma with her car.
- An upstate woman was mauled by a rabid bobcat.
- That guy doing sign language at the Mandela funeral? Yeah, he didn't know sign language.
- And finally, a Shiba Inu reluctantly hands over his bone:
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