I used to read the Onion regularly. Then for a while if you went to the website you had to sit through some bedamned commercial before you could access the content. Broke me of the habit, and now I don't even have it as a bookmark.
That said, I remember the headline after 9/11 - the first response I ever encountered of those events that wasn't either kneejerk or pedantic. They are not afraid of anything, and they are oh-so-often dead on when it comes to skewering what needs to be skewered. My one son shares links to Onion articles with me on Facebook from time to time, which keeps me checking in with them.
U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Issue 3734 - 09.26.2001 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
