It’s not Christmas — at least for us — without Sascha Burland and the Skipjack Choir undermining the whole gaudy extravaganza. Mom can keep her Tennessee Ernie Ford holiday album — between this and Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts music, we’re covered.

Title: “TIME for Kids BIG Book of Why: 1,001 Facts Kids Want to Know”

Authors: Editors of Time for Kids Magazine

Rank: 93

Blurb: “Kids will be desperate to share what they’ve learned with their parents, teachers, and friends… and anyone else who will listen.”

Most Helpful Favorable Review: “I enjoyed reading this book with my grandson and we both learned some new things.”

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Gangnam Style hits one billion views, Google adds a dancing animation to the hit count, we tremble in abject fear.

[via David Chartier / Tumblr]

Remarks from the NRA press conference on Sandy Hook school shooting [WaPo]

• Moon crashes into Earth: 1,000,000:1
• Ring of Fire erupts simultaneously: 1,000,000:1
• Downton Abbey canceled: 500:1

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So there’s this facility known as the “Y-12 National Security Complex” in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which “maintains the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile”. We know this because they say so, on the same page where they show a handsome soldier vigilantly guarding our nukes.

Not shown: The hole in the fence.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, freshman Texas congresscritter Kyle Kacal:

“I’ve heard of people being killed playing ping-pong — ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns,” he said. “Flat-screen TVs are injuring more kids today than anything.”

Seven people died playing ping-pong in Germany from 1997 through 2006. Cause of death is unknown.

And 169 kids died from falling flatscreens from 2000 through 2010.

Meanwhile, 2,793 kids died from gunfire in 2009 — 85 of them preschoolers.

[via Weigel]