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Though the Obama inauguration (in case some media outlet hasn’t reminded you in the last ten minutes) is still one week away, the process of moving the new first family’s stuff into the White House has already begun. An exhaustive and expensive process (even though the Obamas have to hire their own movers to get [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]