67 Virgins

“I was promised I would spend eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden, if only I would fly the airplane into one of the Twin Towers,” said Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11, between attempts to vomit up the wasps, hornets, and live coals infesting his stomach. “But instead, I am fed the boiling feces of traitors by malicious, laughing Ifrit. Is this to be my reward for destroying the enemies of my faith?”

The Onion takes on the thankless task of using humour and irony to deal with grief and loss. I think it’s good that they didn’t choose the nefarious path of self-censorship like so many otherts have these past couple of weeks. Like, now it’s suddenly *not* okay to criticize Bush? That Bush/Chimp site took down their amusing diversion. This is how totalitarianism starts. It might have been an otherwise crap movie, but Chaplin’s The Great Dictator annoyed Hitler immensely.