December 05, 2012 Archive December 2012

Watch behind-the-scenes footage of "The Hobbit"

Study: "Slut-shaming" won't go away

New education standards elbow out literature

Does Ashton Kutcher pass for Steve Jobs?

How consumer brainwashed are you?

E.L. James named publishing person of the year

Everyone loves a shiny nose

Kate's middle is in royal pain

Mr. Burns issues PSA explaining the "fiscal cliff"

"Doomsday Preppers": Living like you're gonna die tomorrow

"Seinfeld" star signed to TV Land sitcom pilot

Thom Yorke announces release date for next album

31 percent of correctional officers have PTSD

NATO backs anti-missile system for Turkey

GOP leaders remove four from plum House committees

Retired generals urge Obama to keep Gitmo promise

Judge temporarily blocks California's ban on gay conversion therapy

Dumb tweet of the day: Guns don't kill people, pens don't misspell words

Weird news: Lobsters are now eating each other

Republican opposition downs UN disability treaty

Alaska serial killer raised racist, anti-Semitic

"Anti-energy" drink sickens kids

Donald Trump's attacks

Report: Karl Rove, Dick Morris pushed to sidelines at Fox News

The package deal

Salon limerick contest

Powerful typhoon kills at least 74 in Philippines

Simpson-Bowles is magic

What the Republican Party has become

Who will get a 2013 Grammy nomination?

LA, Long Beach Ports strike ends

The right turns on Boehner after committee "purge"

Tehran says it has material evidence of U.S. drone capture

Senate passes $631 billion defense bill

MI6 allegedly refused to kill al-Qaida leader

Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart on the "fiscal cliff"

8 possible futures for legalized pot

Jimmy Fallon, the Roots and Mariah Carey perform "All I Want for Christmas"

Poll: Hillary Clinton has high support for 2016

"The Mindy Project": Mindy's got a beef with midwives

More babies won't save the economy

Alan Simpson dances Gangnam Style

Vice Magazine gives away John McAfee's location

Australian radio station pranks Kate Middleton's nurse

Rupert Murdoch's mother dies at 103

5 dumbest UN "conspiracies"

N.C. prisoners tortured with hot sauce on their genitals

The New York Post defends its indefensible photo

Winfrey picks Ayana Mathis’ debut novel for book club

Sheldon Adelson plans to double down on campaign donations

2012's ultimate movie mashup

Obama warns against another debt ceiling fight

Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91

"Call of Duty: Black Ops II" grosses $1B in 15 days

Hasidic counselor accused of molesting teen to testify

Salon readers remember Dave Brubeck

Blackwater still making major deals with U.S. in Afghanistan

Forbes declares Eddie Murphy Hollywood's most overpaid actor

George W. Bush pushes softer tone on immigration

Watch John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's strange music video

Michele Bachmann wins: How the anti-Muslim fringe hacked the media

Pizza Hut perfume now exists