To stop the spread of Western culture, Iranian officials have banned the sale or production of any goods related to Valentine's Day, which has become increasingly popular with Iranian youth. Would it be possible to introduce a similar moratorium here?

Yesterday, for the first time, Starbucks gave employees holiday pay on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

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After enduring dozens of grueling hours with your relatives this holiday season, you may need to go to the bar for a drink. This poses its own challenges: navigating the impromptu high school reunion that occurs therein.

Hello folks! It is Christmas Eve and my Christmas gift to myself is that I'm not going to write a recap of last night's show. But here is a space at least to talk amongst yourselves about what happened.

Last night, Conan's new holiday decorations were revealed. The decorator? None other than Kenny Erwin Jr. He brought a new look to the show including: Godzilla with a candy cane, a Larry King shrine, and a giant Christmas chicken sandwich!

Well, one thing is for certain: in the American Food Culture War, Michelle Obama's side isn't the only one indoctrinating kids young.

We met Aaron Jamison last April, when he was selling ads on his cremation urn to help his wife pay medical bills connected to his terminal cancer. Many of you chipped in to help him. He has a small request.

Christmas is only five days away, and it's likely that some of us (ahem) haven't done any shopping at all. Need some ideas? Here are some gift suggestions for the various weirdos you might still have to shop for.

Just in time for Baby Jesus' birthday, here's a new video from everyone's favorite spoiler mongers, the Fine Brothers. Here, Benny and Rafi spoil the endings of 50—yes, 50!—of your favorite Christmas movies, all in about three minutes.

Here's a video of some guy in a Santa suit—he's thin, so obviously it's not the real Santa—dancing to himself on the side of a road. Why? Nobody knows. Who's filming him? Who cares! Come jam along, inside.

Dearly departed bigot Jerry Falwell's legacy includes the conservative Liberty University, which apparently also includes an a cappella student choir group. Here's said choir group performing a Christmas-themed version of Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Song," because why the hell not?

Because of you people and your endless legislative demands — gays in the military this, tax cuts that — President Obama may have to delay his Hawaiian vacation a few days so he can sign all this stuff. Happy, America?

Tonight, Lambs across America were glued to the television watching Mariah Carey's holiday concert special, which included a duet of "O Come All Ye Faithful/Hallelujah Chorus" with her mother, Patricia. And in true diva style, Carey upstaged Mom. Watch inside.

This appears to be some sort of PSA for the Best Friends Humane Society about adopting dogs. What's so cool about it, though, is that it shows the aforementioned dogs crafting/decorating for the holidays with human hands! Whoa. Watch inside.

On tonight's Christmas-themed 30 Rock, Elaine Stritch reprised her role as Jack's evil mother, Colleen, delivering one hilariously tense family moment after another. What happened? when Jack revealed to Colleen that he knew about his real father? Find out inside.

MTV will have a live show in Times Square on New Year's Eve that will feature Snooki dropping in a ball to mark the advent of 2011. We always figured Snooki would drop the ball, but never like this.

Even as marketers try to entice you to buy your loved one that diamond Lexus, they already know that Christmas spending this year will be a disappointment. The lone bright spot for America's forlorn retailers: jeggings.

Tonight, Martha Stewart made one of her always-entertaining talk show appearances when she visited Jimmy Fallon on Late Night. Stewart talked about her opulent Thanksgiving—white truffles!—before she and Fallon made insanely strong eggnog and crafted together. Highlights inside.

Tonight, Jon Stewart noted that the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma changed the name of its winter parade to include "Holiday" instead of "Christmas." Then, he played a disturbingly comical video of Fox News' Gretchen Carlson's outrage over the name change.