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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Dec 28, 2025
My Open House New York 2025 experience was one for the books! Here's an overview (which I tried to keep brief, but that proved challenging). biggreenpen.com/2025/12/28/f...
Five boroughs, Four days, One unforgettable city | Big Green Pen

New York City runs on courage, hard work and passion about what can be. Open House New York provides incredible insight into all things NYC.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Nov 5, 2025
Revisit The Onion's TV listings from 20 years ago open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
Revisit The Onion's TV listings from 20 years ago

The Onion jokes about Michael Bay, Bush eulogizing Rosa Parks, weather-related gambling, Samuel Alito's nomination and much more

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Nov 2, 2025
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20 years ago in The Onion, a nude sheriff showed up

Plus, bird flu, TV weathermen, a nude sheriff in town, "Scooter" Libby, Howie Mandel, and a night on the town

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Oct 12, 2025
20 years ago in The Onion, Jim Anchower got a girlfriend open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago in The Onion, Jim Anchower got a girlfriend

Plus, Bush seeks a Secretary of the Nation, afterlife drug sentencing, marriage counseling, friends with cancer and much more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Oct 5, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion resurrected Bob Marley open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion resurrected Bob Marley

Plus, The Onion jokes about Hollywood, obesity, Cosmopolitan, Jimmy Kimmel, Halliburton and the CEO with the best handshake.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 28, 2025
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20 years ago, The Onion quoted Anthony Weiner before he was famous

Plus, jokes about Nicole Kidman, Botswana, the WikiConstitution, Ukraine's governments and the guy in philosophy class who won't shut up.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 24, 2025
The Onion's 9/11 issue, 20 years later open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
The Onion's 9/11 issue, 20 years later

The Onion was just trying to figure out how to acknowledge a tragedy. The result was a historical document that's also quite funny.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 21, 2025
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20 years ago in The Onion, Oprah had her biggest giveaway yet

Plus, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, more reactions to Katrina, Cindy Sheehan and John Roberts, and Hitler's astrological sign.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 14, 2025
20 years ago, Gorzo The Mighty returned to The Onion open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, Gorzo The Mighty returned to The Onion

Plus, The Onion jokes about the search for one's self, the Supreme Court, the Keebler elves, Phyllis Diller and much more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 8, 2025
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Reviewing The Onion's coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005

Plus, Dick Cheney loses his health insurance, Barbie becomes CEO, Justice Rehnquist dies — and a smokestack writes a column called "I'm A Cloud Factory!"

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Sep 3, 2025
The Onion's new website launched 20 years ago this week open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
The Onion's new website launched 20 years ago this week

Revisit The Onion's entry into web-only content, including a new website, more American Voices, and a fake Bush radio address and much more!

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Aug 31, 2025
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20 years ago, The Onion predicted Google's heel turn

Plus, The Onion magazine debuts, jokes about Cindy Sheehan and "Sanford and Son," and much more. Also, a goat writes a column.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Aug 24, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Dave Matthews open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Dave Matthews

Plus, Shakespeare the rapper, the terrorists winning again, Gaza, jet lag, "Luftwaffles" and much more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Aug 17, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Donald Rumsfeld — and his wife open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Donald Rumsfeld — and his wife

Plus, The Onion goes after Michael Bay 3 years after he threatened to sue them. Let's revisit summer 2005!

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Aug 11, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion brought back Amber Richardson open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion brought back Amber Richardson

Plus, Bush's energy plan, podcasts, cell phones, dog cloning, the Geico gecko and much more.

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NPR npr.org · Aug 3, 2025
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Aug 4, 2025
20 years ago in The Onion, a male novelist tried to write women open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago in The Onion, a male novelist tried to write women

Plus, The Onion discusses terrorism and high school dropouts, PepsiCo tries to connect with youth culture, and a column about lesser-known "Get Smart" agents

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jul 27, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion featured a cat general and Tom Cruise open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion featured a cat general and Tom Cruise

Plus, The Onion comments on Burger King, Sandra Day O'Conner, the London bombings, Joe Scarborough and Jean Teasdale getting drunk

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jul 21, 2025
Come along with me to get a layperson's "101" of a carbon forest. biggreenpen.com/2025/07/06/t...
Trees Work: A Look Inside a Carbon Forest | Big Green Pen

The idea of a carbon credit may sound complex, but it all starts with trees.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jul 21, 2025
20 years ago, Congress got a puppy open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago in The Onion, Congress got a puppy

On July 20, 2005, The Onion returned from vacation with jokes about outsourcing, drunk confidence, the Marines, robot fighting, dating and much more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jun 29, 2025
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20 years ago, The Onion turned Us Weekly into Harper's magazine

The Onion mocks the Catholic Church, John Bolton, iPods and NASCAR. Plus, Jackie Harvey and Don Turnbee show up.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jun 27, 2025
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: in Tallahassee, FL” - sign up now to join me! #aftvotes www.mobilize.us/aft/event/80...
GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: in Tallahassee, FL · AFT

**Good Trouble Lives On** is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power...

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The Onion: 20 Years Later onion20.substack.com · Jun 22, 2025
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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jun 16, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion listed everything that can go wrong open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion reacted to the Michael Jackson verdict

Plus, jokes about everything that can go wrong, John Updike, cassettes, Habitat for Humanity, President Bush, Portugal, medical marijuana and much more.

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digimentors digimentors.bsky.social · Jun 13, 2025
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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jun 8, 2025
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20 years ago, Bush unbanned vigilantism in The Onion

Plus, The Onion covers the Special Olympics, "The Rockford Files," Björk, the genocide in Sudan, "Deep Throat," the NBA and much more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Jun 1, 2025
Judge Joe Brown overruled Judge Hatchett in The Onion 20 years ago open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
Judge Joe Brown overruled Judge Hatchett in The Onion 20 years ago

Plus, mid-2000s tropes like Camp Snoopy, "Napoleon Dynamite," stem cells, early "green" products and the "Van Helsing" franchise.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · May 25, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion blamed stupidity in Area Death open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion blamed stupidity in Area Death

Let's make fun of advertising, metalhead-goth love, having just one beer, President Bush, Memorial Day, filibusters and more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · May 19, 2025
Bush tried to save rom-coms 20 years ago in The Onion open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
Bush tried to save rom-coms 20 years ago in The Onion

Let's revisit CEO kidnappings, school principals, Gil Scott-Heron, commencement speakers and religious agreement on chicken!

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · May 13, 2025
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Scientology open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, The Onion mocked Scientology

Let's revisit Tom Cruise's summer of love and faith, "Fear Factor," Iraq, Usher, Cupid's shooting spree and much more.

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Angry Former Public Servant drneuro.bsky.social · May 4, 2025
Greyhound, I promise I will never talk smack about you ever again. Bravo

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · May 5, 2025
From @jamesdasilva.bsky.social ➡️➡️➡️ open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
The Onion featured Barack Obama for the 1st time 20 years ago

Plus, President Bush's identity is stolen! The Onion also covers Amtrak, the unspeakable happening, "The Simple Life" and more.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Apr 30, 2025
The Onion's historical coverage of tariffs, 1996–2016 open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
The Onion's historical coverage of tariffs, 1996-2016

Did The Onion care about tariffs before Donald Trump became president? Not really! Here is The Onion's coverage of tariffs from 1996 to 2016.

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Paula Kiger handle.invalid · Apr 28, 2025
20 years ago in The Onion, Herbert Kornfeld gave a "Motivation Seminizar" open.substack.com/pub/onion20/...
20 years ago, Herbert Kornfeld gave a 'Motivation Seminizar'

Also, let's revisit Katie Couric, Rep. Tom DeLay, Chris Kattan, "Family Feud," the food pyramid, beavers and much more.

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