Hundreds of headlines

For those who missed it, the New York Times had a great story earlier this week about how writers for the Onion spend two full days each week vetting lists of satirical headlines, choosing the best and creating backstories for them.

The story describes the headline-vetting group as:

This brain trust was all men — all 10 of them white, most in glasses, about half wearing T-shirts with something satirical printed on them, and at least 60 percent of them with facial hair. (“The dominant style” in the office of The Onion, the author Wells Tower wrote last year in The Washington Post Magazine, “is the unshaven, underexercised, Nazarene look of bookish people who probably suffered a steady program of jibes and wedgies in junior high school and carried pocketfuls of 20-sided dice.”)