I haven’t been keeping track: where’s the pendulum these days on whether it’s permissibly hip to link to anything Onion-related? Regardless, the video stuff they’re doing now has been surprisingly good, for two reasons: the production values aren’t awful, and the headline-scroll supplies as many gags as you get all week in the print version. Yesterday’s Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays is a low-key classic.
Dear gentle reader: this blog has been operating continuously since I was a teenager. The writing below is at least a decade old. In that time every molecule of my body has been replaced, along with many foolish ideas and flighty beliefs. I want to keep some of those things public out of an honesty and humility I owe the world. I trust you to carry that context with you.