Is Cracked.com the Ground Zero Mosque of magazines? (Part 1)

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | January 24, 2011 | Kathy Shaidle

[Walter Scott Hudson]

“It’s come to this: Cracked.com is the paper of record.”

Almost every longtime blogger seems to coin a catchphrase. Instapundit gave birth to “Heh.” My fellow Canadian blogger Kate McMillan regularly dubs chronically toxic historical figures “not dead enough.”

I started calling Cracked “the paper of record” in 2007, when I rediscovered the poor man’s MAD Magazine after it transitioned to an exclusively online presence.

I was startled by the high quality of the writing I found there. A non-fan described the evolution of Cracked as going “from MAD to Mental Floss” – and meant that as an insult. That sounds to me like an admirable trajectory.

Not only did Cracked.com make me laugh out loud (and that’s hard to do), but occasionally their pieces were thoughtful and even wise.

“David Wong,” a.k.a. Senior Editor Jason Pargin, penned an essay called “7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable” that – along with “5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy, But Won’t” and “The 10 Most Important Things They Didn’t Teach You In High School” – should have earned him a chubby book contract.

[packrat35]

Cracked was my favorite magazine as a youth.

[ozzymandus]

I bought Cracked if the drugstore was out of Mad. That was over 40 years ago. The last time I looked at a Mad magazine, it had gone totally left-wing. Pretty weird, since most of their humor dated from the Eisenhower era.

[Mike Darancette]

Good stuff lots of Kitties!