As soon as I saw the title of this article, I knew what article I was going to choose. I had never visited the onion before and did not expect it to be this good. The combination of a straight face kind of humor that pokes fun at a variety of groups with an intelligible message surprised me.
The article flowed like any other article about a small disaster that you might find in a newspaper or on a website. The humor of the article existed on two levels, the absurdity of the subject matter and well-placed one liners. By far my favorite quote was from Ganesha: “Despite my many arms, cases will have to be handled one at a time to avoid mixups.” But the end of the article takes the prize for hilarity and sacrilege when it states “The deities were all unanimous in agreeing that the sole Catholic fatality should be condemned to forever roam the Earth as an anguished, wretched ghost, as Catholicism is the only truly false religion and has no god to accept its faithful when they die.”
In spite of the antics of Beelzebub, who demanded all of the souls on the grounds that his count for the month was low, and the Wiccan goddess, who did not show up for three days, this article still has a great deal of substance. The problems surrounding government disaster recovery procedures and jurisdictional issues are brought out more clearly and with more force than many articles by conventional news sources that try to write on those issues. The statement that they “usually have no trouble operating without an official post-disaster protocol” really says it all.
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