The Christmas season means lots of nice things like family and presents, but it also means shopping amidst tremendous crowds and waiting in long lines. But why does your line always move the slowest? Bill Hammack, the Engineer Guy explains.

The Cherry Lane Theater, once the stomping grounds of writers like O'Neill, Odets, and Beckett, is shutting down. The owner bemoans the current theater need to "hav[e] a film star in...productions... I don't want to do theater like that."

Nobody likes Ben Sherwood, a notoriously self-promoting former Good Morning America executive producer who was recently, and inexplicably, placed in charge of ABC News. Some of his new employees hate him so much they made this undermining video about him.

The mistress was not impressed when she got some jewelry with the wife's name engraved. Meanwhile, this thoughtful actor made sure a group of needy kids got some gifts this year. It's better to give, than to receive.

Flooding and mudslides have been reported in San Diego County, while we hear a tornado warning has been issued in LA, as another round of wild storms wallops the area. Hopefully valuable celebrities will be the first to be evacuated.

While you were gleefully ripping apart the boxes of your Christmas presents as a kid, those presents were suffering. They were having their bodies torn apart while you laughed. Well, now it's time for the presents to get some payback.

Ever wonder how and where we get our fresh water from? This beautiful infographic video will show you the step by step process in the daily water cycle, from rain to waste to sewage treatment.

The classic way to determine one's porn name is childhood pet plus street you grew up on. Apparently, Kristen Schaal has grown tired of this and came up with a great new method. It works out perfectly for Conan.

Meet Kesha, she's 34 years old and she loves eating toilet paper. Seriously, a bulky roll with 2-ply she can take out in about a day.

For these Russians nothing could be more exciting than their first car bomb in Los Angeles, that is as long as they can find a parking spot.

And now for a very special Christmas message from Bill Maher.

[Bathers enjoy one of the coldest winters on record from the warmth of Britain's only natural thermal pool in Bath, England, today. Image via Getty]

A small French farming village is facing an influx of UFO watchers and assorted New Age idiots who believe aliens are hiding underneath a nearby mountain, waiting for the 2012 Apocalypse. The mayor wants the army to be on call.

The CIA has launched the Wikileaks Task Force, known around agency headquarters as simply WTF. How appropriate.

Last week, a seemingly annual brawl erupted in Ukraine's parliament, with fists and chairs and insults flying. So yesterday, awesome TV reporter Roman Vintoniv openly mocked politicians when he arrived at parliament to conduct interviews wearing a bunny suit.

[Yes, as of yesterday, it's officially winter, especially here in Crested Butte, which is actually the name of the town, no, seriously, in Colorado. Photo via AP.]

Considering a website about Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan? You'll have to think of something more creative than "BianMoynihanSucks.com," since it and "BrianMoynihanBlows.com" were registered by Bank of America, possibly in advance of Wikileaks revelations. Don't worry, though!

Hey! Looks like we'll still have a government till March 4, at least.

You were probably wondering to yourself: "What did actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's shady husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt do on Tuesday?" Well, he mistook nail glue for eye drops and glued his eye shut. Damn Winter Solstice!

A team of Japanese scientists unintentionally bred a mouse that "sings like a bird." So they did what any self-respecting team of Japanese scientists would do, and bred 100 more of them.