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Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

Today, we’re told, is Rooster Day – which, being half French, makes us a little tingly under the beret. Of course, the French only invented the rooster (hence why it is our national emblem), but now with immigration, globalization and whatnot there are all kinds of roosters. To celebrate just the choicest, tastiest of the [...]

If you were weirded out by Barack H. Obama’s middle name, then this list probably isn’t for you. Sure, you may have heard of some of these before (like Harry S Truman and Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette), but you probably didn’t know that Elton John’s middle name is Hercules.
Frankly, the biggest surprise for us was that [...]

Yeah, we know, Monday mornings are tough and we all kinda feel like giving up and calling it a week. But what if Mel Gibson had just let the Scots give up? What if Kenneth Branagh hadn’t rallied the Brits? What if, God forbid, Viggo Mortensen hadn’t roused the armies of Middle Earth? And what [...]

As every environmental scientist gets to tell us at least once during his or her career: we will likely experience some kind of global natural catastrophe in our lifetime (you know, like in The Day After Tomorrow).
In such dire times, whose advice should we seek but that of a cooky Christian fundamentalist who lives in [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

As we fine-tune our holiday Netflix cues and scour local movie rental offerings for their most yuletide films, why not take the advice of a guy wearing a funny hat? No, we’re not talking about Steven Spielberg.
The late Pope John Paul II, pressed by nobody in particular save the slowly-approaching hand of death, imparted the [...]

The New Yorker interviewed Prince this week, touching on both his conversion into a Jehovah’s Witness seven years ago and his anti-gay marriage views. I don’t think I’ve been so shocked to learn a likable celebrity’s religious and political stance since I found out Beck is a Scientologist (and he’s just number 8 on Cracked.com’s [...]