News Story Of The Week
Via the Onion: NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day’s date in...
View ArticleThe Onion Reports On BP Oil Spill
In only the way they can do it: As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullshit still gushing from the headquarters of...
View ArticleOh How I Love The Onion
I am a few days late on this, but funny at so many different levels. Having admittedly “reached the end of [his] rope,” President Barack Obama sent a rambling 75,000-word e-mail to the entire nation...
View ArticleBizarre Job Interview Questions
CBS Moneywatch recently ran a story highlighting some of the “bizarre” (insert bat-shit-crazy) qustions companies like Facebook, USB, Google, P&G, and Goldman Sachs ask in job interviews. One of my...
View ArticleOh It Feels Good To Laugh
Via the The Borowitz Report at The New Yorker, which has some of the best political humor and satire around: Canada announced today that it was tightening security along its border with the United...
View ArticleIndiana Jones Denied Tenure Letter
McSweeney pens a hilarious letter from the chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure at Marshall College outlining the many reasons why they have denied Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. tenure. Though...
View ArticleWhy Nate Silver Got Drunk
There are so many great lines here, I don’t know where to start, like: On election night 2012 even god himself was hitting refresh on 538. He just made the universe, I turned it into a graph. Now...
View ArticleSad, But More Truthful Then I Care To Admit
Via the always wonderful Onion: Nation Horrified To Learn About War In Afghanistan While Reading Up On Petraeus Sex Scandal As they scoured the Internet for more juicy details about former CIA director...
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