As anyone who pays attention can attest, the current crop of elected officials in Congress ranks among the more doltish of all-time, which is saying a lot, as this nation has sent some real retards to Washington over the years.

Oh boy.

Perhaps the best lambasting of the mainstream media's style of disaster coverage was released yesterday by The Onion News Network.

We won't go on too long about the possibility of Neil Gaiman handling a Doctor Who novelization or about his supporting The Onion for a Pulitzer (awesome video below) or about how he accidentally tweeted his hotel room's location and phone number, because we have an update on American Gods.

Arguably the funniest thing on the entire Internet today is the revelation that many people, I typically like to call them dipsh*ts, can't tell the difference between an Onion "news" story and a real news story.

Poe's law states: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.