Who runs the Christmas decorating in your house? Guest-blogging over at ASV, Dave from Texas tells a great tale of how his extremely cool family-centric "Crap Tree" has been forced into the back of the house by his wife and daughters who are ganging up on him to keep the "Pretty Tree" completely sanitized of good old fashioned Holiday Cheerfulness. It's a real tear jerker for those of us who prefer non-sterility in our decorations and holiday memories. Read his tale here.

The Orthodox Anarchist has some great reading about his battle against the evil known as lawyers.

An engineer gets taken by his boss when he gets set up to "accidentally" buy a battle tank instead of a water tank.

What the hell is wrong with these parents? Unfit and disturbing beyond words...

Finally, speaking of scary things, something is really wrong with Bad New Hughes. While on 'hiatus', he's been posting things that are almost as scary as the Jackson link above - Ventriloquist Dummies AHHHHH!!!!