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Hostile break-up, sinister reunion: Mesmerism & the Boob

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ march 04 ]

"The first recorded Code of broadcast standards was created by King Louis XVI. What happens, the Commissioners asked, to "sensitive women" who go into a screaming mesmeric convulsion which terminates in 'the sweetest emotion'?"

Enigmatology

by Joe Palmer

[ march 04 ]

"For what profiteth a man if he know the name of a tree spelled with three letters? Or that a 2x2x2 Rubik's cube has 3,674,160 different configurations?"

History repeats itself as farce

by Jason Leopold

[ march 04 ]

Vice President Cheney helped cover up Pakistani nuclear proliferation in 1989 so the US could sell the country fighter jets.

The Lone Ranger of Righteousness

by Paul Rogat Loeb

[ march 04 ]

"The more strongly Nader campaigns, the more time, money, and energy we'll all have to divert away from the prime task of defeating Bush."

I spy with my little eye...

by Jason Leopold

[ february 04 ]

Spying On UN Secretary General was part of a larger campaign to undermine UN Missions in Iraq.

Going once, going twice

by Jason Leopold

[ february 04 ]

Halliburton is facing its second criminal probe in four years.

Squidgygate revisited

by Garrick Alder

[ february 04 ]

The Princess of Wales may be dead and buried, but the controversy about her life and death certainly is not.

Vest and Goose

by Joe Palmer

[ february 04 ]

"Correctness" is arbitrary, a product of the mind of the listener. I once saw an applicant for a teaching position blackballed because in an interview he pronounced elegiac Ella JAKE instead of Ella JIKE or aLEE Jack.

The Somali Legacy: Black Hawk Two

by James D Boys

[ february 04 ]

Bush is learning that foreign escapades do not guarantee electoral success.

A global perspective on social activism and democracy in South Africa

by William I Robinson

[ february 04 ]

"As national social and welfare systems have been ruthlessly dismantled, there has been a dizzying process of social immiseration of the great majority, side by side with the concentration of wealth among small minorities of the elite and a narrow sector of middle class consumers. I can think of no more apt a term to describe this situation than global apartheid."