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The Onion Complete News Archives
Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17
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Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series.
The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series.
The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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First published January 1, 2006
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December 8, 2009
I received this as a gift for my birthday and it took about 5 months to get through. However, if you like a challenge it is worth the haul. It is a collection of Onion articles Nov 2004 to Dec 2005. The best of these was picked up by mainstream media and dealt with the supposed discovery of the bones of the real Michael Jackson on the grounds of Neverland Ranch. Other favorites included:
-a report about a suicide that included a goodbye PowerPoint presentation
-an article about an all-minority postal staff forced to attending mandatory diversity training
-a piece about how a local psychotherapist was able to recover a lost memory of a Rockford Files episode
-one I connected with a report by a Chinese factory worker trying to understand why American buy all this crap
-an opinion piece by action movie director Michael Bay complaining about the success of “March of the Penguins”
-a report about Nicole Kidman mauling her handlers
-an article about how President Bush will appoint a Secretary of the Nation who will be in charge of actually running the U.S.
-a surrealist piece on the break-off of chiplomatic relations between Fritolaysia and Snakistan
-a report about a suicide that included a goodbye PowerPoint presentation
-an article about an all-minority postal staff forced to attending mandatory diversity training
-a piece about how a local psychotherapist was able to recover a lost memory of a Rockford Files episode
-one I connected with a report by a Chinese factory worker trying to understand why American buy all this crap
-an opinion piece by action movie director Michael Bay complaining about the success of “March of the Penguins”
-a report about Nicole Kidman mauling her handlers
-an article about how President Bush will appoint a Secretary of the Nation who will be in charge of actually running the U.S.
-a surrealist piece on the break-off of chiplomatic relations between Fritolaysia and Snakistan
April 12, 2008
Kind of like Saturday Night Live (at least when I used to watch it), there is a bunch of vaguely funny stuff interspersed with hilarious stories and headlines. The hit-to-miss ratio made me skim many stories, but the ration was good enough and the hits funny enough that it was well worth it.
January 14, 2008
The Onion is funny. Jim Anchower's "The Cruise" makes me laugh out loud.
May 26, 2010
What can i say, satire really trips my trigger.
August 21, 2013
You have to give it to a parody publication that can run a joke about the Special Olympics and be funny without being mean.
July 2, 2008
What I learned from this book? Not much. But I did chuckle a lot reading it.
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