Look at that. Mudflow but the table and chairs are still standing.

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SoCal's wettest Christmas holiday ever, and the intensifying drought-to-deluge cycle behind it

Scientists attribute these extreme weather swings to climate change, warning of intensifying "hydroclimate whiplash" patterns globally.

an awful lot of people spend an awful lot of time trying to read their own ideologies and their own identity politics into the text because that is a very attractive instrument that they can then leverage to serve their own ends. And unfortunately, far too often that means powerful people using that as a tool against less powerful people and groups. And I think that’s particularly true today.

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The Bible says so…or does it?

On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often ...

Trump decided to launch a religious war on Christmas. He launched a war for oil on Thanksgiving. Wonder what he has planned for New Years...

In Iceland, there's not really a Santa Claus figure at all, Gunnell said. Instead, there's the "Christmas Men," also known as the Yule lads. As the stories have told it, the mystic men – with names like "Window Peeper," "Sausage Swiper," "Bowl Licker" and "Meat Hook" — come one by one down from the mountains by your community, play pranks and steal things from homes. (To be fair to them, they'll also leave presents in windows for children.) On top of that, they have an ogress mother, Grýla, who eats misbehaving children "like sushi for Christmas," Gunnell said. And although he doesn't swipe sausages or eat children, Santa Claus is not a completely dissimilar figure. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5643035/yule-christmas-word-origin

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." (I did not know that was considered a Christmas movie).