I long ago lost track of the number of times that I’ve described something, or someone, as sounding like something you’d read in the The Onion, such has been the state of the news cycle since June (remember the Beer Summit?). However, what you are about to read actually is from the Onion. It is a fake* op-ed piece penned by an imaginary* Rush Limbaugh.

I’m not even sure The Onion could make this stuff up. State-owned radio and television stations in Venezuela (as in, Hugo Chavez state-owned) are apparently reporting that the cause of last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti was caused by “secret” U.S. “weapon of earthquakes.”

The saying goes “Dying is easy, comedy is hard,” but what about combining the two activities? A new video from the Onion News Network features the kind of dark, irreverent humor and high production values that have become their stock-in-trade, but with an added twist: a quasi-death wish for Glenn Beck. The clip is called “Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck,” and it has some people wondering if The Onion has crossed even its own far-flung line.

On Monday, The Onion underwent a rebranding that made Newsweek‘s look like small potatoes. The satiric paper made some big changes: the slogan was changed from “America’s Finest News Source” to “America’s Finest News Source and Salvage Fishery;” the paper’s green color scheme was replaced with red; they added a fish radical to the logo. [...]