Congratulations, the War on Xmas is over. And guess who lost? Christmas! And the economy. Especially the economy. Looks like all the 70%-off sales in the world can’t squeeze money out of people with no money and no credit. It’s almost as if Santa left a lump of shit coal for U.S. Retaile...

By the Comics Curmudgeon Hey, everybody, have you heard about the economies? Of course, your Wonkette staffers spend their days luxuriating in the well-appointed, mahogany-trimmed, Campbell Brown-subsidized Wonkette HQ, but we are given to understand that things in the outside world aren’t goi...

Finally. The children are nestled in stockings or whatever, asleep, and Christmas 2008 is over, and hopefully it was all right — jesus fucking christ and hopefully it did not go as horrifically wrong as this, or this, and what were we talking about again? Where is the bottle, of whisky? Let...

Oh hi, people. This is your holiday editor of the day, wishing you good seasons &c. It is too bad your editor’s fucking plane can’t get to Portland (Oregon), ever, so he is back home again, where there is also a new blizzard, and many feet of tragic snow! Hope your holiday travels w...

There is no finer Yuletide tradition than kidnapping or decapitating the hated Baby Jesus dolls put out in public at this time of year by the very people who would be most upset by the kidnapping or decapitation of Baby Jesus dolls. It is a terrible outrage, this thing that happens every year, every...

Recap since I haven't posted in forever: Customer service for a few different companies.  The one I'm writing about sends out catalogs. So this happened earlier in the week and ticked me off so much I had to stay off the phone for a few minutes.  We just recently sent out our hol...

if it's good enough for the networks, it's good enough for us... no christmas could go by without a trip down to the skippy vaults to dredge up this old chestnut: yes, viriginia, there is a war on christmas: [ed. note: this is a reprint of the famous 1897 column from the national review online. we t...

the uk daily mail tells us that the war on christmas is being fought valiantly by the hardly-ever-right wing: douglas stewart was forced to stay at home while his friends received presents from santa and tucked into ice cream and jelly. his parents were told he was not welcome at the celebration bec...

newVideoPlayer("falcon_pieces_gawker.flv", 463, 367); If the first time you saw all those bags you thought the LEGO Millennium Falcon was big, it's not big. It's HUGE. Like some of you asked for, I spent four hours and nine minutes sorting all the pieces out to make the construction easier. The cond...

newVideoPlayer("LEGO_falcon_teaser_gizmodo.flv", 463, 367); We got the LEGO Ultimate Collector's Millenium Falcon and here's a video of me getting all dorky and excited about this awesome 24-pound, 5,159-block LEGO masterpiece. This is just a teaser of what's coming later this week: the time-lapse v...