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The other day at a local library book sale I stumbled upon a $1 copy of The Onion Ad Nauseum: Complete News Archives.\u00a0<\/em>Needless to say, I bought it\u2014and I’m now convinced that next to the Bible The Onion<\/em> should be required reading for all Christians. Okay, I’m kidding. But seriously, it’s a great way to find yourself laughing on a weekday morning between making lunches, brushing teeth and scuttling kids out the door.<\/p>\n

This morning’s headline read “Father Bitter That Son Has Everything He Never Had<\/a>,” and the article itself is even funnier. I mean, what sort of brilliance does it take to come up with this stuff?<\/p>\n

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