This article by Ron Rosenbaum at Slate.com is one of the scariest things I’ve ever read, about the prospect of nuclear holocaust. No jokes for this one.

This isn’t really news… but I wanted to share my all-time favorite short story. It’s half satire and half satire and was written in 1875 by Mark Twain. It’s called “The Story of the Bad Little Boy,” and it slaps the sanctimonious right in the chotchkies. It’ll take you about five minutes to read, and it available here. (Thank goodness for the public domain.)