Killjoy alert: "The Muppet Show" is not a "docuseries," and these anthropomorphic "stars" aren't sentient beings

There is more to being neurotypical than not being a statistical outlier

With films like "A Smoky Mountain Christmas," Parton became a Christmas leader, worthy of the top of the tree

Welcome to CPAC 2009, truly the home of the weird.

Want to get attention, candidates? We've got a few ideas

The new Jim Carrey movie is an elephantine, oppressively sentimental look at small-town America at the time of the Hollywood blacklist.

TV you loved as a kid can become your kids' favorites.

A Goldman Sachs tell-all gets panned for the wrong reasons, showing how financial journalists are in bed with CEOs

Face it, we're made of trash, like Marjory the Trash Heap, and mired in one place these days

The rebooted show is promoting its characters as if they are people—and we're hard-wired to fall for it

Lawyer for Jacob Chansley, better known as the "QAnon Shaman," offers bizarre, bigoted and ignorant defense theory

Cheech and Chong meet Leiber and Stoller: On "Paintin' the Town Brown," the brothers Ween plug in for a two-CD live in-joke.

We asked; you answered. Here's the most-awesome-ever summertime list of offbeat, kid-friendly movies available on DVD -- as chosen (mostly) by Salon readers.

The influential children's television show is increasing its diversity, with an autistic Muppet named Julia

Younger is probably better for children to be introduced to the ways people around them are different