Here is your funny video report from The Onion, about the crushing sadness of Obama volunteers who now have to … who knows? What do people do, anyway? [The Onion]

Yup, a 1993 page from the 1999 Onion book Our Dumb Century with this article and subhed, “Nation Eagerly Awaits Ohio Man’s Profound Insights Into Current Events.” See, everyone, just make up a story — type any random crap in your comments about anything, just try it! — and American capitalism can make it happen. [The Onion via BoingBoing]

Sometimes we will just post things because they are funny. We call those times “Thursday evening.”

Situation In Nigeria Seems Pretty Complex [The Onion]

Faithful reader Sean spotted this intrepid protester outside the McPherson Square metro this morning. The lady is quite upset about the administration’s plans to re-hang Saddam “Suddan” Hussein — plans she presumably read about in The Onion.

U.S. To Re-Hang Saddam Hussein [The Onion]

Because it’s Friday, on a holiday week no less, here is a funny video from The Onion.
Live From Congress: Rep. Ingersoll’s Murder of a Hobo [The Onion]

As you may have heard, The Onion now has a DC edition. And because one party celebrating this wasn’t nearly enough, they threw another one last Wednesday. This one was a slightly classier occasion, with a more exclusive guest list and much classier venue: the Folger Shakespeare Library. MORE »

The Onion, America’s only readable newspaper, has opened a DC branch. And whenever anyone does anything in DC, they need to throw a party or two. The first two Onion parties was held last Thursday at the Black Cat. We went, because the Black Cat is within walking distance and they were nice enough to put us on the list. MORE »

We’ll spare you the Main Stream Media Blog Jokes (”At least the Onion admits to being a liberal anti-American hate bible!”) and just announce the happy news that Washington is finally getting its own local version of The Onion. The WaPo will print, distribute and sell ads for the humor weekly — which also has a nice fat local listings and entertainment section in other cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago. MORE »

* Reliable Source: Amy Holmes was on The View and didn’t even get in any fights with the shouty liberals… More Bush Twins fun in South America. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: The Onion runs one of their trademark fake columns, bylined with the name of real-life Rep. Dennis Moore. Moore, sadly, is a good sport about it… Rep. Adam Putnam (age calls Rep. Eric Cantor “a great wingman.” Cure the Post Style section … Buy the campaign crap of losers on eBay. [Examiner]

All right, we’re taking the rest of the day off. NEWS CAN MAKE FUN OF ITSELF, THANK YOU. MORE »

Check out this entertaining but rejected Super Bowl commercial, for an outfit called QuietAgent.com. Then read the amusing rejection letter (note: pdf file), from Kathryn Tunis of ABC. MORE »