If you love The Onion, as I do, check out this episode of This American Life from a few weeks back. (I meant to post this last month, then forgot about it until now.) It's a fascinating look at what goes on in the writers' room at the newspaper.
The other segments are all really good, too. Especially the last one by The New Yorker's Malcom Gladwell, which will give those of you who haven't spent time in a newsroom an interesting look at what happens to your daily paper when professional journalists get bored.
(Aside: Why is it that The New Yorker is always on newsstands before I get it in the mail? Isn't that why you subscribe to a magazine? To get it first?)
Finally, I'm obviously in a weird mood today because this Onion story made me laugh hysterically:
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