One of my favorite newspaper features for the past several years has been the "What They Were Thinking" column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. It can get a tad melodramatic, but it's a nice concept for a paper that tends to be a tad... impersonal. (This week's column, however, featured Olivia the Pig, and wasn't worth the paper on which it was printed.)
Anyway, Steve Steinberg over at Blue Donut does a great spoof of how the column sometimes is too casual with big events.