This was originally intended to be a listicle of heads of state behaving or posing in a manner suggestive of bad-ass-ery, but as we went down our list of current and former heads of states, Vladimir Putin turned out to be his own self-sufficient epic action movie. That is why we revised our plan to [...]

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, which means that most of us will be spending a small fortune (or at least more than on most normal days) on the following things: beer, green beer, whiskey, lap-dances from leprechauns, and all sorts of silly St. Patrick’s Day memorabilia that isn’t even  remotely Irish we really don’t need. [...]

Today is the International Day Against Police Brutality (except, notably, in the United States, where National Anti-Police Brutality Day on October 22 takes precedence) and though, happily, we have never been victims of police brutality, we know of a number of fictional characters who have been on the giving and receiving ends of such abuses [...]

Sunday is Pi Day (3/14, of course!), and to celebrate we baked you these 14 Perfect Pi Pies. (We had originally intended to bake 314 such pies for the sake of greater numerical accuracy, but this proved to be a terrible idea.) Pi Pies, in case you eat all of these before Sunday and need [...]

Today is the 100th International Women’s Day, which seems especially fitting in light of Kathryn Bigelow taking home the first Best Director Oscar ever won by a woman last night for her excellent Iraq War thriller Hurt Locker. At any rate, the holiday grew out of what used to be a Soviet block celebration known [...]

Today is World Thinking Day, a rather broad and abstract holiday that we think is very strange, and which apparently has something to do with the founders of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. For our part, though, we like to take a little extra time on Thinking Day to reflect on all the brilliant [...]

Ten years into this century and we have already had what will likely remain one of the worst earthquakes in modern history in Haiti. And judging by GOOD Magazine’s listicle of the 10 Biggest Earthquakes of the 20th Century, we’ll probably be in for a lot more devastation, destruction and tragedy before these hundred years [...]

Some years ago we visited New Orleans the week after Mardi Gras and it looked much worse for wear. That said, from all the beads, margarita cups, costume scraps and chunks of floats lying around, we gathered that it had been a fun time, and quietly wished we’d arrived a few days earlier. At any [...]

Every year, on February 2nd, we crawl out of the Listicles office to see whether or not it is Groundhog Day, and since it usually is we decide that no matter what the groundhog says we will probably have another six weeks of winter. So far, every February 2 has been Groundhog Day, and each [...]

We have been receiving conflicting reports as to the actual date of Opposite Day, which actually seems appropriate for Opposite Day. Some sources claim that it was yesterday, January 24, others claim that today, January 25, is the big backwards day. We’re not taking any chances, though, quite the opposite in fact. We’ve decided that [...]