Awkward family photos? Oh, yes, they've got 'em!

It's like the whole pain of childhood concentrated and delivered via a shocking blow to the head. Awesome.

And first up–Lionel Richie's long-lost pale cousins, 1985, just after they listened to the first great Stryper record. Lovin' those faux chaps, not to mention the comb-over/mullet/cirrus-cloud hair-dos on these guys. How did they do that?

And on the serious side— now you too can listen in on the brilliance of one of the most reprehensible figures of the entire Bush administration. John Yoo, relentless proponent of Bush's dictatorial power-grabs and author of the "torture memos" who, like Richard Perle or Dick Cheney, always seems to look like he would happily order his own mother served for dinner, is now a monthly columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Of course, he should be working on his defense for the war crimes charges currently brought against him, but instead, he gets paid to write down his thoughts for us by purveyors of serious discourse. The Inquirer has every right, of course, poor judgment or no, but is anybody going to want to read what Yoo has to say? Did John Yoo wear faux chaps in 1985?