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Volume 44 Issue 20 | May 16, 2008

This Week's Horoscopes

TOP STORY

San Diego Zoo, Prison Merge
SAN DIEGO—The new ultra-efficient complex is open to schoolchildren on field trips, family members of convicted felons, and state-appointed defense lawyers.


AMERICAN VOICES

Vatican Okays Space Aliens
"Is that the same astronomer who pardoned Galileo? He's really on fire this decade."
Babette Kroll, Systems Analyst


LATEST NEWS

Stackley Cup Playoffs Underway

NEW YORK—The 2008 Stackley Cup Playoffs, a set of odd-number-of-games series that will determine the champion of the National Huckie League, are well underway, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman confirmed Monday.

At press time,...



Everything Falling Apart, Reports Institute For Somehow Managing To Hold It All Together
WASHINGTON—"Though we're working to fix things, the situation has become OH FOR CHRIST'S SAKE—I just spilled coffee on myself," said the institute's chairman.

Nation's Slicked-Back-Hair Men Rally Against Negative Hollywood Portrayal
LOS ANGELES—Even though men with this hairstyle comprise just 3 percent of the US populace, activists argue, they make up 80 percent of TV villains and assholes.

Michel Gondry Entertained For Days By New Cardboard Box

NEW YORK—Gondry greeted members of the press by placing the box over his head and declaring that he was a lonely building without a skyline to call home.



Local Bar Comes Out As Gay
SEATTLE—"Once I saw two guys kissing in the bathroom, but I thought they were just drunk. Now it makes perfect sense, though," resident Frank Klein said.


IN BRIEF

That's What Host Of 'Showtime At The Apollo' Talking About

Formerly Obese Man Always Showing Everyone His Old Pants

Clinton Questions Obama's Ability To Greet World Leaders


OPINION

I Would Say 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Captured The Most Interesting Part Of Our Lives
By Atticus Finch

I Can't Believe I'm Being Forced To Sit On This Couch While Jay Leno Interviews Josh Hartnett
By George Clooney


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