G&S Reads The Onion

Why open up the NYT, or the Post, or the Newark Star-Ledger when you could be reading one of the greatest humor periodicals of all-time? We thought so.

This week's Onion is filled with the kind of side-splitting, sarcasm-filled stories that make it worth reading every week. It's even distributed free on the street in San Francisco! (To our Washingtonian, Brooklynite, Pacific Northwestern, and North Dakotan readers - let us know if the same holds for your towns.)

Some choice pieces from this week:

• Eighty Percent of Al-Qaeda No. 2s Now Dead
• I Love The Idea Of My Wife
  
• Black Box Records Last 90 Minutes of Hot-Air Balloon Crash
• Roger Federer Admits Tennis His Fourth-Favorite Sport

And probably my favorite, TV Blamed For Rise In Formulaic Violence, which features the excellent interview "quote"

Said Underhill: "How many times must we watch an innocent man get thrown from the hood of a speeding car only to get up unharmed and continue to run from the agents who pursue him, only to get thrown into a stack of warehouse crates? How many street grocers' carefully stacked vegetables must be scattered to the four winds by haphazard, ill-conceived car chases before we, as a society, say 'Enough'?"

Happy reading. And I can't wait for the Sopranos in March.

P.S. I'll be holding down the fort for the next few days while the Farmer is out tending to his rural methamphetamine lab. (We hear it's pretty popular out in the boonies.)

UPDATE (Sunday, 10:42 p.m. PST): This post was originally put up Saturday. Blogger had some hiccups over the weekend, and it also looks like there was a good period where the site couldn't be accessed at all. No wonder Google's at $380. Punks.