Our Endorsements: Trickle-Down Giggles

* Talk to your kids, it's important and hilarious.

* Who wants to look at what? I don't know!

* Funny or Die's images that defined 2012.

* Great ideas of this past year, parts I and II.

* President Obama is sounding a little pitchy lately.

* Taking a look back at your day-by-day Mayan calendar.

* Spoiler alert: The Onion finds a way to make Zero Dark Thirty funny.

* Forget your carbon footprint and take care of your naughty footprint.

* Advertisers figure out which side their bread is buttered on: the gay side.

Tags: Barack Obama, Christmas, Daily Links, Environment, Funny or Die, LGBT

Politicians n' Christmas [PHOTOS]

Is the War on Christmas getting you down? Cheer up! Join our favorite politicians as they celebrate the most pine tree-centric of holidays.

See all the festivities here!

.Photo via Tim Scott's Facebook page

Tags: Christmas

Our Endorsements: SNL's Royal OB-GYN

* Martin Short and Bill Hader discuss the royal ladyparts.

* From The Onion: Illegalize me!

* Holiday guilt trips, from UCB Comedy.

* Gifs make the fiscal cliff fun. No, really!

* You have the right to read this Cracked article.

* A little heavy, but an amazing series of 2012 photographs.

* Jimmy Kimmel gets some surprising answers about the fiscal cliff.

* These countries won't get fooled by fake news again (but fingers crossed!).

* NASA is confident the world isn't going to end Friday. A little too confident.

* Frank Conniff + Baratunde Thurston on the Beginnings podcast = very entertaining.

Tags: Baratunde Thurston, Christmas, Civil Rights, Guns, Kate Middleton, Martin Short, NASA, Queen Elizabeth II, The Onion

Inside Al Franken's Secret Santa Party

Despite a recent poll showing that a plurality of Americans believe Santa is a Democrat, I remain skeptical. If this fat old man is such a liberal, why do rich kids get all the best presents?

Despite my doubts, we now have confirmation of Santa's partisanship: he is indeed a Democrat from the far north, and he goes by the name "Al Franken."

For the second year in a row, Franken (D-North Pole) has organized a Secret Santa gift exchange among his fellow Senators. If nothing else, the exchanges are a good indicator of which Senators despise one another…

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Tags: Al Franken, Christmas, Senate

Tweet Untweet: Santa Stuck in Congress' Chimney

All I want for Christmas is a shiny new fiscal cliff.

— Anjeanette Carter (@anjeanettec) December 11, 2012

Tags: Christmas, Fiscal Cliff, House of Representatives, Tweet Untweet, Twitter