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The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin.The Onion began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the Onion News Network. In 2013, The Onion stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency.The Onion was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged The Onion and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group. This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media. Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold The Onion to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that year.

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Malarkey and memes. Ice cream cones and finger guns. Sunglasses and Amtrak.

It's all in there.

While Joe Biden's new heart-tugging memoir "Promise Me, Dad" is on its way to being a bestseller, there's another more lighthearted book that has hit shelves in recent weeks: "The Book of Joe: The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes Accidental) Wisdom of Joe Biden" (Three Rivers Press, $18).

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Destined to be a First State stocking stuffer, the compact, 205-page book is mostly a glowing biography, bringing readers through his life starting with a stuttering Biden as a boy in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

But interspersed with the Biden bio are short, break-out boxes filled with what makes Biden so charming, whether its his boy-like love of ice cream and muscle cars or his old-school disposition, armed with words and phrases from a prior era, such as "malarkey" and "backbone like a ramrod."

So why release a book about a former vice president a full year after he left office? That's usually a recipe for naptime.

Author Jeff Wilser, who spent a year researching Biden and interviewing people in his universe, thinks the Delaware political heavyweight is even more popular now that Donald Trump and Mike Pence are in The White House.

"It's almost like America didn't really fully appreciate him until after he left," says Wilser, who previously penned last year's "Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life." "It reminds you of an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend. After you break up, you realize, 'What a second. That was really good.' We kind of took him for granted during the White House years and there's a new appreciation for what a decent person he is.

"Especially in today's climate, I think we are hungry for people who are authentic, ad

Welcome back to The Onion: 20 Years Later, where we review the print issue from 20 years ago, find out what’s still funny and examine the cultural impact. Today, we revisit May 28, 2003.

This week’s newsletter barely came together — I’ve had a cold and some aches the past few days. It’s not COVID or the flu, so hopefully it passes quickly. Anyways, I hope y’all are having a good long weekend.

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This was Vol. 39, Issue 20, the 148th new Onion issue of the 2000s. Here’s what the website looked like in 2013 and today. Once again, there’s no archive of the 2003 website available.

The front-page headline “Man Puts Philandering Days Ahead of Him” is no longer online.

And here’s an interesting puzzle: “Independent-Minded Cat Shits Outside the Box” was eventually changed to “Free-Thinking Cat Shits Outside the Box.”I’m not sure when the change occurred, but it was no later than 2005. Here is the cat:

Last week, we talked about 1990s punk music. This week, we’re talking about early 2000s Christian rock, but we’re also talking about the band Creed. I’ll explain in a moment.

“Bassist Unaware Rock Band Christian” is definitely a 2003 article — look at the shirts, the hair length and hair product on those guys. That’s what every rock band looked like back then.

How do I know this? Because that photo is the band Creed, minus the bassist, who left a couple of years earlier. Here’s the original photo:

Like Creed, Pillar Of Salt is a Florida band that places religious references in their songs. Lots of bands do this and aren’t considered Christian bands!

However, Brad Rolen seems particularly incurious considering:

• The band is named after a rather famous Old Testament reference.

• They won’t play on Sundays.

• Their song titles include “Blood Of My Father,” "Wade In The Water," "Eternal Life," and "Kiss Of The Betrayer.&quo