The new
Onion, the first since 11/9/2001,
is in, and it's not the terminally ironically detached Onion of yore;
no sirree, this is a patriotic, flag-waving, God Bless America-singing Onion,
for now at least. Don't expect anything as blasphemously flippant as
"Terrorism matches obesity as top killer of Americans" (no, for that you
have to go to that scurrilous convict rag
the Chaser). The
"hijackers surprised to find selves in Hell" story reminded me
of a Weekly World News piece about great villains like Lee Harvey Oswald being
tortured in Hell.