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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1805607.Our_Dumb_World_The_Onion_s_Atlas_of_the_Planet_Earth_73rd_Edition?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1188593711m/1805607.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1805607.Our_Dumb_World_The_Onion_s_Atlas_of_the_Planet_Earth_73rd_Edition?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3003.Editors_of_The_Onion">Editors of The Onion</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13326238?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> If you are not familiar with the Onion, "America's Finest News Source" and the originator (I think) of pseudo news, get thee over there immediately. Today's headlines, as I write this: "Mel Brooks Starts Nonprofit Foundation To Save Word 'Schmuck'", "Christian Charity Raising Money To Feed Non-Gay Famine Victims" and most appropriately for this site, "Third-Person Limited Omniscient Narrator Blown Away By Surprise Ending." But Our Dumb World isn't about news, per se, it's an atlas, and if you weren't sure about this, the cover helpfully steers you towards the Onion's skew by proclaiming "Now With 30% More Asia" and such highlights as "Fewer Clouds on Maps" and "Long-Standing Border Disputes Resolved." A sampling from the page on the South, "Where the Mistakes of the Past Come Alive" include this gem on my home, Florida: "The Silent Holocaust: Though on the surface Florida appears to be a tropical paradise, inside this state lurks a dark, gruesome secret: Each year, thousands of Jews are sent here to die." The Onion doesn't leave a stereotype unturned, from Malaysia, "An Allah-Inclusive Terrorist Resort" to India, "Please Hold While We Die of Malaria" to French Guiana, "The Colony That France Totally Forgot It Still Had" to Germany, "Genocide-Free Since April 11, 1946." All the map lovers in your life, and even those who can't fold a map, will find something to laugh at here. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/607667?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>