] Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the
] door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect
] George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address
] Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and
] prosperity is finally over."

[ This is *awesome*! This Onion article ran in January of '01 -- and it's frighteningly prophetic, though at the time surely would've been classified as over the top, like most Onion humor.

Well, Mr. Chak decided to fill in the blanks and hyperlink passages in the Onion bit to real news stories which match up with them in real life. It's well done, and so so sad. -k]