"Drugs Win Drug War"

For some reason I thought that The Onion, THE satirical news source of the early 2000s, would never be able to extract itself from the grunge and irony of the '90s and make it fully into the age of Youtube and Internet 2.0. What was I thinking?? The Onion is the funniest thing to happen to America, and, it updates its twitter more often than The New York Times does ( "Oh No, Performers Coming Into Audience" was the update less than 20 minutes ago, while the NYT comes in snail-pace with their most recent, "N. Korea Says Reporters Are Detained," a whole two hours ago. Really? Nothing since?).



What's more: The Onion keeps its twitter strictly to the news, while NYT writers have started more 'blog-like' I guess you would call it twitter feeds, which are often absolutely terrible. See: T magazine's Travel Editor Nathan Lump. Beyond twitter, because there is much beyond twitter, The Onion News Network is again, hilarious, and also is wildly successful - over a million downloads a week. In case you've somehow missed all this, ONN, a 24-hour news channel on Youtube, has aired such greats since it was launched in 2007 as Child Bankrupts Make-a-Wish Foundation. Make sure to watch the ONN videos all the way through because the best part is often the transition to the next story at the end (just like how NPR plays fantastic indie songs at the end of segments). Bravo Onion, for everything that you do - and especially because Beijing Evening News believed you in 2002 that "Congress Threatens to Leave D.C. Unless New Capitol is Built." [LFR]