It’s F&#*ing Hot!
Aug 9th, 2007 by Ben Weathers
It’s on swelteringly hot summer days like this one when I become completely uninspired to do anything. I become completely apathetic towards my fellow man making me want shirk my responsibilities as a blogger.
Those responsibilities are to you; the reader. If you are taking the time to read this I owe an interesting piece of news, a refreshing opinion; an intelligently written piece of commentary. Not today.
Sorry. I’m just not feelin’ it.
Instead, I’d like to share with a completely unintelligent story guaranteed to make you IQ drop 10 points, courtesy of the Onion.
If you’re not familiar with the Onion (www.theonion.com), it’s a news site dedicated to keeping its readers amused with subtle, dry, often dark and outlandish humor. Imagine if John Stewart and Stephen Colbert actually took themselves seriously and you have pretty good idea.
One of the Onion’s specialties is writing about the average man with a sarcastic wit; the factory worker who is proud of a job he hates, the young man confined to an office chair after tragically graduating college and getting a job and the local man who can’t decide when it’s the right time to take down his American flag.
Other features are far-fetched and outrageous like a recent exposé about an annual “Gay Shame Parade,” where each year a small Midwestern town gets together to shame homosexuals for their “repulsive, decadent behavior.”
It’s also the place to find great opinion pieces like this week’s “Everyone Should Own A Gun For Protection And Possibly For Suicide,” by Thomas Studdelmeyer.
It’s what the news junkie reads on a slow news day or a day like this one when he just doesn’t care anymore.
Once upon a time you could only find these types of delicious parodies in the pages of the Weekly World News while you were checking out at the grocery store. But that paper will stop hitting the shelves after this month leaving it’s website to compete with the rest of the fake news industry on the net.
The Onion is one of the best, sure to liven up your lazy summer day.
Check out this clip about Time Magazine’s Annual List of Least Influential Americans: