Thursday, May 18, 2006
The Onion: This Story Hits Too Close to Home
Like many people, I love the Onion. It does take a special sense of humour though. Likewise with the once a month Christian version, www.larknews.com. But sometimes both places his too close to home, like this one…
There are more than a few times in the course of my doctoral thesis (yes, in the U.K, its a dissertation for a Master’s degree, a thesis for a PhD, kind of like driving on the wrong side of the road) that I have wondered if I am not simply adding to the boredom coefficient in the universe, moving us ever closer to the point where boredom will reach equal weight with excitement, causing the end of the universe in a rather less than dramatic giant pause. So the Onion’s breathless coverage of this thesis from Miss Samoskevich is a bit too close to reality for this would-be PhD.
