I’d pretty much assumed The Onion had faded out on the PC altar of unfunny wokeness (along with sorely missed Cracked). But they just surprised me with a fun one; Historians Still Unable To Determine How Americans Were Able To Build Hoover Dam.
“There’s no evidence for how the people in this country worked and achieved such a challenging task without fucking it all up. Frankly, I’m beginning to think the answers may be lost to history.”
I’m not saying The Onion or Cracked are gone. They both still have a “web presence”. I’m saying the jokes started getting weaker and preachier until I stopped going there for a laugh. They’re dead but don’t know it yet. Like the last Radio Shack in an empty mall… they exist mostly on inertia. That said, when one door closes another one opens; all hail the Babylon Bee.
