"Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work | The Onion - America's Finest News Source." Home | The Onion - America's Finest News Source. 28 Mar. 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work
Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission
"Pentagon's Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission | The Onion - America's Finest News Source." Home | The Onion - America's Finest News Source. 28 Mar. 2009
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
"Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion - America's Finest News Source." Home | The Onion - America's Finest News Source. 28 Mar. 2009
Chicken of the Future...
In this cartoon by famed cartoonist Mark Parisi, it pokes fun at the idea that everything tastes like chicken. Of course, everything does not taste like chicken, but it’s the common saying. So by having cavemen say that the “ancestor” tastes like what would be “chicken” just took such a simple common saying and made it laughable. It is not known where this was printed other than on his website, but it is something for all audiences that knows the chicken tasting joke (which is most people).
Jerry talks Food - Anyone need Milk?
Famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld even takes a stab at food. In his Broadway performance in 1998, Seinfeld does a stand-up with a variety of common everyday material including how grocery shopping has become more of a scavenger hunt than a common weekly chore. The changing of products and the need for milk has taken over human life as told by Jerry. The humor in this is taking something as simple as melons and exaggerating the obvious with the absurd. His stand-up is suitable and understandable to all audiences since all humans have to eat and experience the same thoughts and wonders as they travel down the grocery aisle.
Super Size Me Please !
Supersize Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan Spurlock, Daryl Isaacs, Lisa Ganjhu, and Stephen Siegal. Kathbur Pictures, 2004.
This Oscar nominated film took the world by storm in its 2004 release and put a dark shadow over the fast food industry. SuperSize Me follows around main character and director Morgan Spurlock as he eats nothing but McDonalds for 30 days. The goal of this movie was to show the negative effects of eating that much fast food has on the body in such a short amount of time. The film was made as a documentary and drew both laughter and criticism by all that watched it. The humor of it was that it took a topic (fast food) that is highly popular in the United States and around the world and through the use of demonstration, called for change. It was to encourage people to take notice in the food that they eat and even though it is fast and delicious, it has consequences that go unnoticed. Those who stray away from fast food found it as an amusing entertainment against people who they see around them doing it in their daily lives. Those who found commonality in it found it repulsive and took note to change it in their own life.
Privacy not Protected Under the Constitution
The Onion is a satirical publication that covers current events (real and make believe) at the international, national and local level. The publication does its best to imitate the traditional newspaper to seem strictly authentic and in turn believable. Articles by The Onion have actually been mistakenly used by newspapers, television stations, and interest groups as sources or news. The linked article above focuses on the issue concerning privacy and the language of the Constitution. Justice Samuel Alito argues that the right to privacy is no where guaranteed in any of the 27 amendments. He also defends the Constitution's language that does not explicitly deny any individual from invading someone else's privacy because they are not specifically named. The significance of this satire is to expose the elasticity of the Constitution and how it is sometimes manipulated for the advantage of a priveleged few. For example, Alito is allowed to enter a home of a 28 year old woman because it is not stated in the Constitution that he cannot; he is also allowed to hit a man with a car and drive away because the pursuit of happiness is not guaranteed to the man who was just injured. The author is suggesting to the audience that the language of any document that is used as a standard can be manipulated as a means for self-advancement; in this case it was a federal judge. This piece aims to emphasize the growing troubles many people have because of the slipperiness of interpretations that come with age old documents such as the Constitution, along with other documents that use ambiguous language. Typically readers who read The Onion are between the ages of 18 and 44, a range that includes many different social and political viewpoints. Although with the recent presidential election, there is evidence that shows that the majority of this age range voted for Barack Obama, which is an indication that readers of The Onion are likely liberal and open to contesting the validity of accepted norms in the hopes to decrease the concentrated power of a few. The readers would most likely agree with the article in that it does showcase the uneven distribution of power in terms of who has a say in what and to what effect these opinions have.
Right To Privacy Not Guaranteed By Constitution, Says Supreme Court Justice Peeking In Bathroom Window. The Onion. 17 March 2009. Issue 45-12.