I hate to be a New Years Eve party pooper, but I thought you should know that approximately half of you will make New Years resolutions today, but only 8% of you will successfully achieve them (statisticbrain.com). In the interest of turning these dismal results around, I’ve come up with some alternative resolutions for you [...]

Happy New Year!…maybe. It depends on where you live, really. There are literally billions of people around the world who celebrate different New Year’s, based either on their country’s cultural calendar, or based on their religion’s calendar year. So when the ball drops in the Big Apple, not everyone may be celebrating. The following list [...]

Christmas is a time for joy, but the creators of these decorations are doing their best to induce confusion and rage. If anybody gives you one of these as a present, Santa and Jesus agree that it’s alright for you to temporarily forego the Christmas spirit, and give them the gift of a backhanded slap. [...]

Almost every single day of the calendar has something you’re supposed to be aware of, while you go about your business of pretending to work while reading TopTenz lists. That’s 365 separate things you’re supposed to remember. Well, screw that noise! You might as well only celebrate the ten we deem important, because the best [...]

I got a temp job in retail before Halloween, which was enough time to get the basics before the Christmas season started.  And with the Christmas season came listening to the same awful Christmas songs day after day.  Yeah, I’d probably get sick of The Night Santa Went Crazy or Snow Miser – Heat Miser [...]

Every December (or more often, late November) radio listeners are bombarded with themes of merriment, prosperity, and togetherness, written about in traditional holiday music. It’s uplifting for the easily uplifted, but a joyless purgatory for those who dread the upcoming holiday season, a frostbitten limbo we’re forced to endure until the Christmas tree has dried [...]

Editor’s note: Republishing this as a new list for 2012. It is one of my favorite Christmas lists. Hope you enjoy it.  Who doesn’t love the time-honored tradition of having their child pictured on Santa’s lap? Nothing is more cute than to see little Timmy or Sally smiling brightly on Santa’s lap while sharing their [...]

Who gets to decide the occasions we should celebrate?  We all know Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and even Columbus Day, and we know what such holidays entail (alcohol, food (sandwich day?), no work/school/mail).  But why can’t we select, customize, and personalize days of the year based on we truly feel warrant an annual commemoration? Well believe it [...]

Halloween is one of the greatest days of the year. When you’re a kid, there’s nothing better than being encouraged to go out and stuff your face with as much candy as you can get your hands on. Halloween is fun for adults too, as handing out candy is a nostalgic reminder of our youth. [...]

America is not a perfect country.  Like all nations, it is a collection of human beings, and human beings are notorious for occasionally making bad decisions, being selfish, or otherwise simply blowing it.  However, there is a lot right about this country, though often we get so caught up in the rhetoric, that we miss [...]