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- Humans drink alcohol because of evolution (and fruit).
- Protesters staged a die-in at Grand Central this afternoon in response to the Eric Garner grand jury decision.
- Somebody misplaced 100 jars of human brains at the University of Texas.
- James Franco gets his Christmas wish in his SNL promos.
- Detective Goren is releasing an album of spoken word punk rock, and it is the most stressful music you've ever heard.
- JetBlue banned a guy for tweeting Mean Girl quotes at the company and "inciting" his Twitter followers against JetBlue.
- Teachers, shockingly, don't get paid enough.
- Chris Rock explains what it’s like to be black in Hollywood.
- Does a college really need a $219K table?
- And finally, there is nothing better than the interspecies love between a doggy and a horse:
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