RIP Dikembe Mutombo, one of the great basketball players and humanitarians. Here's a few @theonion.comhttps://buff.ly/3zFLhVN

20 years ago today, @TheOnion.comhttps://buff.ly/3BxBRMy

20 years ago, The Onion questioned Bush's service record. Plus, we have a bedding thread recount, Alvin of the Chipmunks is shamed, tan lines go awry, Florida deals with hurricanes and Dept. Head Rawlings returns https://onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago-the-onion-questioned-bush-service-record-…

20 years ago, The Onion questioned Bush's service record

Plus, we have a bedding thread recount, Alvin of the Chipmunks is shamed, tan lines go awry, Florida deals with hurricanes and Dept. Head Rawlings returns

23 years ago today, The Onion published its post-9/11 issue. In grappling with this event, The Onion created a lasting collection of satire. Here's my 2021 review of this issue. https://buff.ly/3BjrsEl

The Onion's 9/11 issue, 20 years later

The Onion was just trying to figure out how to acknowledge a tragedy. The result was a historical document that's also quite funny.

20 years ago, The Onion mocked Matchbox Twenty. I listened to Matchbox Twenty to prepare for this newsletter. Plus, The Onion skewers terrorism fears, interventions, office lunches, Russell Crowe, The Ramones and more. https://onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago-the-onion-mocked-matchbox-twenty-al…

20 years ago, The Onion mocked Matchbox Twenty

I listened to Matchbox Twenty to prepare for this newsletter. Plus, The Onion skewers terrorism fears, interventions, office lunches, Russell Crowe, The Ramones and more.

The Onion mailed me the DNC print newspaper!. Let's review The Onion's return to print, including how it measures up -- literally -- to the old version of the newspaper. https://buff.ly/3ZwU0nY#theonion#satire

The Onion mailed me the DNC print newspaper

Let's review The Onion's return to print, including how it measures up -- literally -- to the old version of the newspaper.

A short history of @TheOnion.comhttps://buff.ly/4eAjmpf#scarecrows

Scarecrow Has Double Ds

AFTON, WI—Remarking on the hay-stuffed decoy’s surprisingly shapely form, passersby reported Friday that a scarecrow in a local cornfield boasted double-D breasts. “Damn, she’s got hay in all the…

The Onion mailed me the DNC print newspaper!. Let's review The Onion's return to print, including how it measures up -- literally -- to the old version of the newspaper. https://buff.ly/3ZwU0nY#theonion#satire

The Onion mailed me the DNC print newspaper

Let's review The Onion's return to print, including how it measures up -- literally -- to the old version of the newspaper.

I'm not sure anyone's made this comparison, but the final @theonion.com print issue in 2013 was significantly smaller in size than the 2024 special issue for the DNC, which is a standard tabloid size. This is good because I'm too old to read the tiny-ass type in the 2013 edition 😅

my favorite thing this week is getting texts of everyone's pets with the Sickos guy that they got in the mail