I tell people I don't read the newspaper, but that's not entirely true. I'm a faithful reader of The Onion, a satirical weekly publication which claims to inform "the educated and the stupid alike." The New Yorker calls it "the funniest publication in the United States."The Onion exists in hard copy, but since it's available online for free and I'm wedded to my computer, I read it at http://www.theonion.com. It's my news digest; I figure if an issue is in any way important, The Onion will satirize it, and I can work backward from their treatment and figure out what's going on in the world.
When I worked at Intel, I used to read The Onion frequently on my breaks. Fellow technicians would routinely glance at my computer screen as they passed through the bullpen, and, failing to grasp that the article displayed was satire, say things like, "That Goddamned Pope! Who does he think he is?!?"
In several years of reading The Onion faithfully, I've come across perhaps two articles, tops, that I didn't find hilarious. But today's headline struck me as particularly side-splittingly funny, as well as spot on. In deference to their privacy policy, I can't print the headline here (or their actual logo!), but this is the link to it: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51849.
If anyone today is writing better satire, I'd like to know who it is.
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