Here are some less traditional outlets to fulfill your yearly quota of scares.
Surgery, no matter how minor, is a scary thing. And these stories will only add to that fear.
Murder for hire never looks as cool as it does in the movies. And in fact it's more 'National Lampoon's' than 'The Professional.'
Even jaded, cynical bastards like us should expect more from reputable news organizations. Right?
Here are a few public entities still working out the kinks on that whole decency thing.
In order to keep humanity from imploding, we have to give up believing these things.
When we try to wrap our hunter-gatherer brains around concepts like student loan interest rates and year-end bonuses, it starts misfiring in all sorts of ridiculous ways.
If you're a smoker, it's the dream you've always dreamed of, but is it really going to be the stoner utopia some people are expecting?
I'm starting to think we overreacted to the terrorism thing.
I got to spend a night in the passenger seat of a patrol car as it hurtled through the mean streets of Los Angeles County's upper crust.
We're living in the glorious golden age of civilization and that life is improving for the species at a dizzying rate not even hippies could have hoped for in their smelliest dreams.
When the work we do is seen by others, it's important to be thorough when checking facts. The people on this list learned that the hard way.