Old News (from eNews)
Saturday, March 20, 1999, at 11:30AM
By Eric Richardson
I bought The Onion's book, Our Dumb Century, today. All I can say is... wow. By far the funniest book I've seen in a long, long time. That's all I'm going to say. Just buy it, you definately won't regret it.
Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.
Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.
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