The front page of CNN.com often seems to be as hilarious and absurd as the front page of The Onion. My friend Dan James point today’s particularly notable list of “top stories” (see the full screenshot):
God, Satan, on CNN
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These are odd times. Since 9/11 there has been a movement to the simple which is very appropriate in some contexts but which, in much news and politics of all slants, would have been generally laughable at any point in the latter half of the 20th century and an easy target for the derision of Mencken in the first half.
And today, they’ve posted a graphic the Onion would be proud of:
The fact that Ben and J-Lo (or Bennifer) and their vocabulary make it to top stories frightens me.
best of CNN, pictures that were once featured on the front page.