Humor and Entertainment

The bad side of Santa that people don’t know about. OR, how a nice holiday tune with just a few changes, can turn nasty.

Let’s rap about that evil One Percent, testament! They cry, they occupy, downtown in stinky tents. Ain’t fair that some got money, while other mothers don’t.

Have you ever stopped and wondered why people tend to love looking at cute stuff? I have wondered this several times in my life and here is an article that will teach you why we love it.

The struggles and frustrations of an Englishman in France, trying to make sense of the French language and at least getting things off his chest, if nothing else. I suppose that having never had any formal education in French at school puts me at an immediate disadvantage. When I first came to live in France some years ago I was optimistic.

It’s been shown that reading funny status updates, getting “likes,” and seeing that little red notification alert on our page causes the body to release a chemical called “oxytocin” into the bloodstream. Oxytocin is also called the “love hormone” because it is involved with giving us those fuzzy feelings we get when we are in the beginning stages of a new relationship, or more importantly, having an orgasm.

So we’re hanging out in California the other day, because space travel is now affordable and we thought we’d explore a different planet and see if we could find any intelligent life. We didn’t. But we did find a lady in a wheel chair, rolling around a resort city with a big sign reading “Corporations Are Not People!” and collecting alms….

Our brains are hard wired to respond to red. Evolutionary psychologists explain this by pointing out that in the time before writing, when our brains were developing, if you saw red, something was happening that was worth your attention. You could be leaking red blood, something might be trying to eat you with its red mouth, delicious meat was red, your loincloth might be on red fire, those red berries might kill you, etc.

It’s looking pretty grim at the research station. Suddenly everyone is saved by a neat piece of interior design.

A nurturing relationship torn apart by unresolved interior design issues. Squirrels play their part.

DC’s New 52 reboot is one of the most significant things to happen to comics in decades. There’s no doubt that DC has done well to make their comics reader-friendly by wiping away most of their continuity. It was a risky move, but the result has put DC back on top over Marvel with sales figures. With Marvel falling behind for the first time in years, it raises the question whether it’s time for them to initiate a total reboot, in attempt to wipe their increasing convoluted continuity clean and become more accessible for new readers?