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Homeland Insecurity: The Onion Complete News Archives, Volume 17 (Onion Ad Nauseam)

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Headlines include "Oprah Celebrates Losing 20,000 Pound" (after about 467 different diets), "Ashcroft Loses Job to Mexican," "Bankrupt U.S. Sold to China," "Cost of Living Now Outweighs Benefits," and "Local Fox Affiliate Debuts Terror Alert Van" (flashes current Terror Alert color for Murfreesboro, TN., equipped with English-Arabic phrase book for translating any intercepted al-Qaeda correspondence).

Other stories include how the Swift Boat Vets intend to continue hounding Sen. Kerry (currently questioning whether he had really earned a free cup at Starbucks), a detailed story behind a project manager leaving behind a suicide power-point presentation (how he had used its full multimedia capabilities, along with the outline of his material), and V.P. Cheney's problems after being dropped by his HMO for pre-existing conditions.

Lots more fun that watching the news!

The Onion presents Homeland Insecurity is yet another edition of this spoof news series. The Onion is a free publication that is available mostly in college towns. This book just lumps the past year's articles into a bound edition.

Every article is rip-roaring hilarious. Nothing is sacred. It rips on anything and everything. Great stuff. I recommend it to anyone with at least a mild sense of humor.

The excellent news parody The Onion has bound together another collection of their weekly newspaper, telling us their readers stories the main networks don't seem to want to tell us. The Onions inside are from the editions published online and in print between the 18th of November 2004 and the 14th December 2005. Some of the stories within are a bit shorter as they are incomplete than their original online format but the humour happens in what is there along with the headlines.

Whilst the Onion has a huge cult following, not everyone has heard of it. If you've enjoyed parody news TV shows such as CNNN or its still going spin off The Chaser then this is the book for you. Also if you're still unsure about buying this book you can just type in the onion dot com into your computer see the latest Onions and you'll know what your getting.

Other great parody fiction is out there but to name three you may be interested in if you enjoyed this book are Where's Bin Laden? by Daniel Lalic which is an excellent parody of the Where's Wally (Waldo in North America) series. 101 Places Not to Visit: Your Essential Guide to the World's Most Miserable, Ugly, Boring and Inbred Destinations by Adam Russ which is an excellent parody of those travel books that only mention the good things about destinations. The Self-Destruction Handbook: 8 Simple Steps to an Unhealthier You is an excellent and extremely funny parody of all those annoying self help books that want to make you a better you.

This volume features several spelling and layout errors... but I in no way regret buying it. :D And I'll keep buying them as the come out!! Too hilarious to pass up.

The Onion is the nation's best satirical publication and here covers the headline news events from November 2004 through December 2005. HOMELAND INSECURITY offers funny editorials, news in brief, opinion polls and articles on all sides of pop and political culture, offering up its fare in a fake news form which comes complete with black and white photos throughout. A 'must' for any public library's humor section.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Every cynical skeptic understands THE ONION gets it left approximately 97.6543% of the time and this gets it about that. Enlightening, entertaining, with frequent mention of mind altering substances, bodily parts and functions, God and Hell and politics and all sorts of stuff and nonsense. (Jeanketeers Unite!)

my sons (and husband) have been fighting over the book since it arrived- they have been laughing a lot too....

I bought this book for my boyfriend last Christmas. He loves the Onion and their books. You can't miss with this one.

Unfortunately there is so much packed into this book that the print is downright tiny. Makes no sense as babyboomers tend to be the general audience, and our eyesight is waning. We enjoyed reading the article headlines though, as they stood out. If the authors were more selective and used fewer articles with larger print, this would've been a real hit.

This is another one in the series. My son thought it was quite good