Dear The Onion,

Wow oh wow oh wow, did you redesign your entire website or what? I’ve been a fan since my days at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, when I gleefully read your print edition every Thursday, and I must say that the recent facelift of your online edition is the most dramatic visual change you’ve gone through since you went digital.

Do you know what part of your relaunch makes me really happy? The fact that you’ve opened up the entirety of your archives to the public. For years there were Onion features and editorials that I desperately wanted to re-read and share with my friends, but because I was way too much of a cheap bastard to pony up for a subscription (and far too much of a coward to go out and find a stolen id/password to use) those great literary gems were always just out of reach.

Needless to say, I went directly — without passing go, without collecting $200 — to my all time favorite article as soon as I learned that you had freed your content: from your “Point/Counterpoint” series, it’s a real marvel of editorial thinking entitled “It’s All About The Benjamins/Actually, The Benjamins Are Only A Small Part Of A Larger Set of Concerns” as told by Mack Master Dwayne, Playa, and Professor E. Worthington Jackson, Howard University. I hurt myself laughing the first time I read it, and I’ve hurt inside for years because I’ve not been able to re-read it.

Thank you for making that hurt go away, The Onion.

Your fan, but not your biggest fan because that would be sort of creepy, but I’m a pretty big fan (not in the physical sense!) all the same,

cp

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