Salmon jokes are all the rage today after President Obama's salmon joke during last night's State of the Union address: more ›

Jones Soda likes its novelties, from the turkey and gravy-flavored beverages that appear every fall, to the recent bacon-flavored soda. more ›

Back where we come from, there's places known as "cooling centers". These are public buildings that are air-conditioned in the event of a deadly heatwave such as the one in which we currently find ourselves embroiled. We remember our afternoon cartoons being interrupted by ticker-style warnings about the heat and the elderly and cooling centers for those without A/C in the home. Libraries were the foremost among the list of these cooling centers. more ›

Two of these Jim Riggleman quotes are real, and one was made up by the Onion. Can you tell which is which? more ›

First, hitting coach Jeff Pentland was fired, then General Manager Bill Bavasi was shown the door, and yesterday it was John McLaren's turn to up the state's unemployment rate. more ›

The Onion AV Club says Mudhoney's 1991 album Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is worth a re-listen. Say they:

[EGBDF] came out two months before Nirvana's Nevermind—and in a sense, it's the Bizarro Nevermind ... Every Good Boy in hindsight sounds like the grunge that should've been: ratty, humble, punky, weird, and catchy without resorting to grunting machismo.

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We've been trying to keep abreast of the latest strike news via the networks as well as our singular Canadian television channel down here but both the quantity and quality of coverage has been most unsatisfying. So we took matters into our own hands. (Confidential to Metroblogging Vancouver: If you don't provide any sort of contact address, we cannot reach you for guest/expert commentary.) We contacted The Vancouverite because we believe in their attractive tag line --"Hyper-Caffeinated Snarky News & Opinion". More importantly, following The Onion's precedent, we assign greater cultural credentials to sites employing the definite article. Here's what Editor Jackson reported about the strike: more ›

Dishin’ doesn’t typically do fast food, but we did and we offer you a fast review. more ›

"The bums will always lose!" more ›

It's the end of an era. Check out the standings list below and you'll see "Hüsker Don't," as you might expect -- but you'll see them in third place. Ever-renamed team State of the Onion played Nancy Zerg to HD's Ken Jennings, as did comeback kids Thaiku Hookers, who took second place. more ›

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. more ›

We aren't the biggest fans of the Seattle Times "humor" department. That's why we were so pleasantly surprised when we opened up the paper this morning and saw this headline worthy of The Onion: more ›

First it was the Pluto-isn't-a-planet business, and now they're trying to claim that dolphins aren't actually smart. Little do they know, those so-called research geniuses are well behind the Onion when it comes to dolphin know-how. more ›

We are good Seattle liberals. We feel that there should be much more concern over bears roaming Ravenna (next to none) than gay marriage (at none). This is what we do, it is who we are. more ›

Seattlest has a friend who absolutely refuses to credit the Onion with anything other than creating a joke form. Every time we're blown away by one of their dead-on slayings we'll send it along to him as soon as we can compose ourselves, but the response is pre-ordained. "Dumb." He appreciates what the Onion has done...in the past. Unlike Seattlest he doesn't appreciate a particularly effective implementation of the Onion formula in, say, the current issue. more ›

There are some Seattle sports fans who complain that our teams don't get enough national media attention. Yeah, we know it's true, and there are times when it irks us a bit, but we understand. Seriously, have you seen where we are on a map? Ultimately we really don't care because know it doesn't matter. more ›

Yes, it's the new year, but we find it hard to look forward without a few final looks back. Instead of doing a straight-forward Favorite/Greatest/Best Films of 2005, we thought we'd reflect on some of our more interesting times at the movies during the past year. more ›

Cole me down on the panny sty. more ›

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? more ›

Seattlest likes to think of itself as an optimist, give or take a few necessary lapses. We’re generally a happy, hopeful bunch. But let’s face it: winter is well on its way; Harriet Miers, wherever she is, is still wearing that terrifying eye makeup; and on top of it all, there’s the flu. Unlike the majority of news sources, we’re not talking about this avian business (although that’s apparently around the corner too), but rather the annual garden-variety stuff—the sneezing, coughing, hacking, and gagging; the aching, sweating and general nastiness. more ›

When accounts of George Bush's apparent endorsement of "Intelligent Design" hit the media a while back Seattlest saw it as the president's way of boosting the result count for a google search of "bush intelligent". Soon after, though, our jaw slackened and we began staring through a poster on the wall and into the middle distance. Our tools have been getting progressively cruder since then, and ooooOO! OOoo-Oooo Ahhhh! more ›