Why We Like the Onion

1) This week's Inforgraphic: Job and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

2) Music reviews containing sentences like: "[The new Flaming Lips record] frequently sounds like Steely Dan as heard from the other end of a machine shop."

Which reminds me, I need to go down to the machine shop...

(Yes, this is a fluff post, but I felt like I needed to post something a little less dyspeptic than the previous entry...)

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