The Onion: The Top 10 Stories of the Last 4.5 Billion Years

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

#10:  Four Or Five Guys Pretty Much Carry Whole Renaissance

#9:  Fire, Setting Everything In Sight On Fire Discovered

#8:  Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs

#7:  Rat-Shit-Covered Physicians Baffled By Spread Of Black Plague

#6:  Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention Of Bazooka

#5:  Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World

#4:  Duane Takes Off Owing Roommates 1,300 Bucks

#3:  Woman Domesticated

#2:  Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization

#1:  Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite

The Onion: U.S. Inspires World With Attempt At Democratic Election

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

NEW YORK—Observers from around the world report that they were inspired and moved by America’s most recent attempt to hold a public election in accordance with the standards of a democratic republic.

 ”After all of the recriminations, infighting, and general madness before the election, the people of this fractured nation still found the courage to show up at the polls,” said Anas Salman, an Afghan U.N. official who was in New York during the American electoral experiment. “More than half of America’s citizens—a large portion of them women—made a valiant attempt to choose their own leader, even though there was no guarantee their votes would be counted. It was truly inspirational.” [more...]

The Onion: Nation’s Morons March On Washington State

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

OLYMPIA, WA—With random cries of “Enough is enough,” “Do something now,” and “Huh?” thousands of the nation’s biggest morons descended on Washington State this week, some 3,000 miles from their intended destination of the nation’s capital.

The march, which had no discernable goal or message, and no official organizers, began at approximately 8:45 a.m. in front of what the morons called the National Mall, but was actually the courtyard outside the Olympia Public Library…

The Onion: If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

From The Onion’s Op-Ed page…

The Onion: Obama Health Care Plan Would Give Seniors the Right To Choose How They Are Killed

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Just a little levity, folks…