Serious or Satire?

This article gave me quite a chuckle. God, you have to hand it to The Onion sometimes.

Al Gore Caught Warming Globe To Increase Box Office Profits

Environmental officials claimed that Gore's tire fire in Akron, OH was "completely out of line."

I guess some people have made the mistake of thinking The Onion was real news... The blog “I speak of Dreams” features something called Stupids on Parade, which outlined a few cases where people took Onion articles seriously. It mentions a journalist who actually reported information from the Onion as a news story!!! How DUMB would you feel after that!? This journalist reported that more than half of all exercise done in the United States happens in TV infomercials for workout machines. Hahaha. Oh God that kills me! And another article "Chinese Woman Gives Birth to Septuplets: Has One Week to Choose" resulted in organized prayer vigils on behalf of the six babies who would be tossed off a mountaintop. Good Lord people.

Here are a couple of other articles featuring people who thought The Onion was real news… Anti-Choice Tool Confirms Stereotype and Onion Taken Seriously, Film at 11. Stupidity can be funny sometimes (when it's someone else, that is)...

Geez, that would be almost as dumb as taking my blog seriously!

The Onion does push the envelope, though. This article was a bit hard for me to choke down because I'm such an animal lover, but man you can't help but laugh. I have to give them kudos for their satire skillz!

World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND-Scientists announced that experimentation on mice has been motivated out of sheer distaste for the rodents.