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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, July 21, 2012

America's Finest News Source

After 9/11, I remember people saying that satire was dead.  And then the Onion (along with Jon Stewart) proved it wasn't.

Today, the Onion nails the Aurora shooting:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sadly-nation-knows-exactly-how-colorado-shootings,28857/

(It occurs to me that I have a tag just for mass shootings.)

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