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Mariah Carey told an audience at the Billboard Music Awards “I don’t acknowledge time”. Unfortunately, her singing voice does.

Carey performed ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You‘ for the first time at an awards ceremony. In case you missed it, you can still hear it thirty times a day no matter where you are.

Argentina elected Javier Milei their new President. Milei wants to outlaw abortion, loosen gun laws, and change the national currency from the peso to the U.S. dollar. He’ll take office on December 10 and Argentina will become Texas a day later.

Artificial intelligence company Open AI, makers of ChatGPT, fired CEO Sam Altman, and replaced him with a guy nobody’s ever seen or heard of, Chad Geepeetee.

Singer Shakira settled a tax evasion case with the Spanish government, dashing the hopes of government tax accountants who wanted to see her lose her shirt.

USA Pickleball released their first equipment that claims to reduce noise by 50% – but can’t do anything about the ambulance noise responding to seniors health emergencies at the pickleball courts.

A Los Angeles Lakers fan crumbled to the court clutching his leg as he attempted to win money for sinking a half-court shot. Although he missed, he was so convincing being hurt without anyone touching him that five NBA teams offered him a tryout.

A woman selling her engagement ring on Facebook Marketplace after her marriage ended says she keeps getting messages from creeps wanting to date her. They ask if the ring is still available, and if she is.

Plumbers say the day after Thanksgiving is their busiest day of the year due to clogs in sinks & toilets – mainly from too much stuffing.

A streaming service is offering $2,000 to someone who will watch and rank 12 old Hallmark Christmas movies. The company is refusing to pay claims to men whose wives have seen them each 20 times and say they’re owed $40,000.

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A self-driving electric shuttle van in Las Vegas collided with a delivery truck within an hour of deployment on the city’s streets. The shuttle immediately fled the accident scene and was apprehended in a strip club parking lot, charged with reckless endangerment and possession of methamphetamine.

Congress is seeking to stem the illegal flow of cellphones into prisons. One U.S. Representative introduced a bill to cap jailed felons’ data plans at 1 gig/month.

  • The Federal Bureau of Prisons confiscated over 5,000 cellphones in 2016. Guards became suspicious when Hello Kitty iPhone cases became the top seller at federal penitentiary commissaries.

Pope Francis has banned the sale of cigarettes at the Vatican starting in 2018. “Now what are we going to put in our mouths and suck on?” asked priests.

An FBI counterterrorism supervisor in North Carolina reportedly got drunk and had his gun, Rolex watch and $60 cash stolen by an exotic dancer he took to his hotel room. President Trump announced even more extreme vetting of exotic dancers by the FBI and himself personally. [h/t to J. Koppel]

  • The FBI raised the terror threat level to Orange at the Boom Boom Room in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Outgoing Starbucks CEO Howard Schulz slammed the GOP tax plan as ‘fools gold’, implying that it will only help the wealthy and not lead to a more compassionate society. He then looked on as a $9/hour worker bought a $6 latte.

Apple refutes an FBI claim that it hasn’t helped their Quantico office in unlocking Texas church shooter Devin Kelley’s iPhone, saying they have no record of the office requesting an appointment at the Genius Bar.

Homeland Security conducted undercover tests and found Transportation Security Administration airport screeners failed to detect test weapons at a ‘disturbingly’ high rate.  The head of the TSA replied that workers lacked motivation – due to budget cuts, screeners who successfully found contraband no longer received Pupperoni.

Facebook continues to encroach on Craigslist territory with the introduction of property rentals to its rapidly growing Facebook Marketplace section. However, investment analysts warn that while Facebook Marketplace has grown 300% since its launch, it still lags Craigslist in market share among murderous creeps.

China’s President Xi Jinping said in a joint news conference with President Trump “the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate China and the United States.” While Trump thought Xi was talking about free trade, he was really talking about global warming.

Portia de Rossi and Julianna Margulies have each come forward to allege sexual harassment by actor Steven Seagal. The two actresses say they waited to go public, citing the embarrassment of others knowing they wanted to be in a Steven Seagal movie.