Crying In Santa's Lap Dept

Jennifer passes on the fact that the Houston Chronicle has put together a slideshow of Santa's-lap photos that didn't quite turn out the way the parents probably expected, due to the fact that the children involved were most definitely not happy about being dumped into Santa's lap. Most of them are of kids in various stages of tears and crying, and are admittedly reasonably cute if you like little kids and all. (Which I do, of course.) So by all means go check 'em out.

My own favorite, by FAR, is the one kid who isn't the slightest bit scared of Santa -- I think perhaps Santa ought to be scared of him: