When our national psyche’s in a bad place, a Black Sabbath-blasting dispute over a basement pool feels appropriate
In 2001, before 9/11, the satirical US news source the Onion was where a lot of us got most of our international news. OK, so it may not have had much actual information, but it was a pretty flaccid time. Everyone was pretending to be the good guy, the world’s policeman. It was all cops and no robbers. Then suddenly, when the World Trade Center was hit, satire seemed unequal to the new seriousness. The Onion’s first headline after the event – Holy Fucking Shit – served to underline the point. But the following month it was back: A Shattered Nation Longs to Care About Stupid Bullshit Again.
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