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ACORNS. Old and new thoughts for a time of corruption.
The Age of Arrogance. Douglas Milburn gives the new century a name.
Ahimsa (Non-violence). Douglas Milburn on how to avoid a bloodbath in the 21st century.
Alphanumerics for Fun and Profit. Some of us continue to fiddle while Rome burns. Slideshow with midi (8:35).
American Dementia. Jack Xamis on Dr. Strangelove then and the US government now.
America the Disjunctive: Musings on Alienated Children, by Jason Twinhaft.
American Censorship: Prisons of Arrogance. Michelle Furr.
Ancient Paradox Mocks Docs. Ceci Lumley. Translation problems in the Tao Te Ching.
And Now for My Next Trick... Pedro Bofecillos on how smart we are. Or aren't.
Anthills. Where the sun's rays meet even deep underground.
Apocalypse Whenever. Rean Rhyne waxes poetic about how near the end is and what that means.
Apposite Apothegms. Our latest collection.
"Are They Worth Saving?" Minutes of an overseers' meeting on board a distant UFO.
The Arrogance of Vision. Elinor Hoefs on the hazards of visual acuity.
Art Smarts. Maurice Fitznuggly on art, past, present, future, and "other."
Astronomical Pornography. Marcel P. Snapfinger et al. (with midi).
At Work, One Writer. Sylvia Sikeston on Jamie O'Neill's masterpiece, At Swim, Two Boys.
AUDACITIES. Cultural one-liner. Slideshow with music (1:12).
The Baby Puritans. Cassandra goes after Boomer hypocrisy bigtime.
The Balmorhea Prophecies.
Beethoven and Barnett Newman.
Beginner's Guide to Misery. Anonymous.
Blinders Begone! Rean Rhyne megalomaniacally formulates "Rhyne's Law" re the fate of civilizations.
The Blooming Grove Bronze Tablet.
Bloviation for Fun and Profit.
Bluebonnets: A Wildflower Speaks. Izora Firelands on the true source of American strength and creativity.
Blue Book: August 21, 1988 - March 3, 1997. "Beware of planets with no sense of humor..." and 200-odd similar observations for the ages.
Blue Red. Three wee sentences to help with today's synamptic re-wiring. You're welcome.
Blütenstaub. 32 quotations gathered from here and there and there.***
Blütenstaub 2007.
The Boys Across the Street. Reppy Duart on Rick Sandford's provocative novel.
Brave New Millennium. Edward Hothi on the problems of living in the 20th century, and possibly the 21st as well.
Brokeback Mountain: Notes Toward a Review. Scott McComb's contrarian take.
Bye-bye, Best Products. Diebold Essen on an iconic 20th century building. With panoramic photo.
Canaries in the American Coal Mine. In which our editor responds to our publisher's complaint about all the poetry we've been printing lately.
Caravaggio or Bust. Doc Cuddy struggles to track down two 400-year-old pictures and then tries to explain why.
Cars & Crystal Balls. Pedkop Bumbera. Reading the future by looking at cars.
Cars & Crystal Balls: Update. Pedkop Bumbera rethinks his vision of the future.
Cars & Crystal Balls: The Critic Despairs. Pedkop Bumbera on the latest car designs.
Cel-a St-ll Sh-ts. Nimo Calardic. The unpleasant human truth hiding behind 9-11.
Chaos and Comity: Toward an Ecology of Consciousness. Douglas Milburn.
Cheerer-uppers. Ceci Lumley has a couple of dozen suggestions...
Children: Facts, Stats, and the Future. Notes from a lecture by Peter Benson.
Clone, Sweet Clone. Architecture then and now. Twelve old buildings and their recent clones.
Closets: The Sequel. Katherine Ozanic on liberations past, present, and future.
Comfort Me with Epigrams: The World According to Peter De Vries. Temple Duciel.
Confusing Entanglements. Words from the Hsin Hsin Ming (with midi).
Conspiracy Theories And Those Who Dote on Them. A Brief Guide to Wrong Thinking in the 21st Century.
Cosmography Is Destiny. Temple Duciel speculates on the origins of human violence.
Cosmology: A Thought Experiment. Cheki Boggus, Ph.D.
Coup Corner. A page with links to all our pieces about the Bush Ascendancy.
Crazy Quotes.
The Crib Makers. J.P. Astraeu. Finding hope in the failure of SETI.***
Crouching Buddha, Hidden Dharma. Chardo Blue Plains on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
"Cui bono?" Sylvia Sikeston names her Number 1 suspect for September 11.
Cui bono? Applying the mechanics of genre fiction to, well, religion.
Curtains. Kai Sonderling. Images for the optically challenged, with Chopin midi's.
The Cyber-puritan Manifesto. How to Change the 21st Century in 20 East Steps.
D.A.D.D. Divine Attention Deficit Disorder.
DADDY. H.B. Kulup laments poetically the constancy of Father's Day.
The Dangers of Hope. Katherine Ozanic on 20th-century propaganda and the rise of American theocracy.
Demonocracy. Jack Xamis, Ph.D. A new word for the disease eating at the heart of America.
Desire. Douglas Milburn. Nineteen slightly provocative words.
Discriminating Mind. A harmless little sentence, and some harmless little music.
Distaff Notes. Horticulture editor Izora Firelands's latest observations from her gardens.
DIY Hermits. Anna-Marie Quave on art, what it means, and what to do about it.
Dolce far niente. Ceci Lumley. Exploring the far horizon beyond science and technology.
Dominion: A Screed. Itinerant mystic Chardo Blue Plains on which way's up.
Dominion and Illusion. Michelle Furr on the problem of invisible empires.
Doom. v. Joy. Carl Yadkin on why the pigs of privilege just keep on feeding.
Double Double Whammy Whammy. Pedro Bofecillos on 9-11, and another (forgotten) trauma.
Double Indemnity. Douglas Milburn on the difficulties of being both an American and a Texan.
Do You Glow in the Dark? Jerden Purmort's helpful checklist to enable you to determine just how close to the edge you're living.
Dreamtime. Dream rerecall difficulties. No. 18 in our "Idea Man" series.
Dualities. A couple of very old Zen sentences become animated.
Dualities. Kai Sonderling's latest painting, with some old music and older words.
Dualities. Images that are the opposite of Tylenol. Slideshow with midi (4:00).
Dutch Doc Does Death Doubletake. Pedro Bofecillow on near-death experience research. (In The Chiliastic Hideon)
Dwarfs, Giants, and the 21st Century. Jason Twinhaft on the dangers of predicting the world of 2100.
Easter Surprise. An infinitely repeating little slideshow with midi.
8% and the Lottery Syndrome. Lulu Dilworth. Hope in the 2000 election.
Eleven Little Words. A coupla short sentences from a really old Chinese guy.***
The End of Theology. Courtesy of Peter De Vries, R.I.P.
Enter, Wilderness. Ceci Lumley on where the 21st century is going, like it or not.***
Every Day's Another Dawning. Hope for the hope-deprived, with a little midi (1:07).
Eye Chart. Check your vision, um, metaphysically speaking.
The Eyes Have It. Douglas Milburn. Thinking beyond the box.
Extensions. Temple Duciel, abstract as ever, poor fellow.
Failure, A Brief Essay.
A Fairy Tale for Our Times. Doc Cuddy.
Fathers and Sons. Caravaggio's estimate of the risks of being young.
Fear and the Rise of American Fascism. Harriet Lobdell on the danger of the accelerating rate of change.
The First Rule of Religion. Harriet Lobdell on hypocritical piety, or pious hypocrisy.
Flat Heat. Don Pfingston. A brief but insightful commentary on seasonal reality.
The Flatness Fallacy. Anna-Marie Quave on the limits of human vision.
Flöh Haz: On Inferring the Existence of Trees. Astraeu Chakar poetizes desert-wise.
The Flotsam and Jetsam of Crawford, Texas. Doc Cuddy on myopic leaders, as well as the rest of us.
The Fly-bottle and I. Douglas Milburn on words and beyond.
F O G. Verbal paradox + a Japanese Buddha + Schubert = ?
Folie à deux milliarde. Reppy Duart, D.D., critiques a Cardinal on 9-11.
Forgotten Treasure
The Forward Scout. Where, then, lies hope?
Found Sentence. One New Orleans graffito.
Fragmente 126. Like the Pleiades meteor shower, the ideas just keep on coming.
Fragments 59.
Fucked Again. Doc Cuddy once more tried to understand the 20th century.
Further Thoughts on Thales. Jerden Purmort.
Generation of Cowards. Our in-house prophet lets fly. At everybody. Bigtime.
Genius Alert! (Piano Division). A hint of excellence even in the 21st century.
The Ghost in the Machine, Part II. Edward Hothi shivers as he thinks about the emergence of computer consciousness.
Giggling While Rome Burns. Doc Cuddy on the rise of a sugar-coated, American version of fascism.
La Giocanda Nuova. Cassandra figures out why she's suddenly smiling all the time.
Going Off the Rails. America's tragicomic probably future.
Good Riddance? Meanwhile, back in the nest...
Graffito No. 11942.
Grand Obsession/Grand Possession. Douglas Milburn. A review of Perri Knize's marvelous piano odyssey.
The Graspable Truths of Kindergarten. Stickum No. 291, 480.
Greater & Lesser Truths. A staff compilation, for better or worse.
The Great Fallacy. Harriet Lobdell. Why both toys and ideas leave us with empty hearts.
The Great Hunger. The latest update from Chardo Blue Plains, staff mystic.
The Guns of September. Anther Varick Ticklaw. The dangers of forgetting history.
Happy Birthday, Martin Waldseemuller!
Hate in Progress. Herbert Lehnert's political observations from a recent trip around the world.
Hearing Is Believing. Sawyer Brown on Alexander Sokurov's The Russian Ark.
Les Heures du Mal. A book of hours for eras in distress.
Headlights in the Darkness. Pedkop Bumbera finds two reasons for hope in current car design.
Headscratcher's Delight. Two wee sentences from the Hsin Hsin Ming. Slideshow with midi (0:57).
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Herds & Stories. Sylvia Thodhiss on conformity and non-conformity.
Herky-jerky World: The Short Shelf-life of Movies. Scott McComb.
Hippie Glop? Just what the world needs: another printing of old 1960s optimism.
Hollow Homeland: The New Orleans Speech That Was Never Given.
Home. Five lines of dangerously hopeful p----y by Mr. Chardo Blue Plains. Warning: Some readers will be offended by the graphic.
Home, Sweet Home. Harriet Lobdell's words of wisdom re religion, politics, science, etc.
Homophobia in the White House. By altering a few phrases, Doc Cuddy reveals the depth of prejudice in the president's anti-gay-marriage speech.
Hope Dashed. Doc Cuddy. The coming tragedy of American (and thus, world) capitalism.
Horological Bequest. Robert Lonoke on single vision and Newton's sleep.
How Far Is It to the Next Lascaux? Old art, new art, and future art...
How Stupid Can You Get. Douglas Milburn, on the suicidal attackers of America.
How Stupid Can You Get, Part 2. Douglas Milburn. The hidden dangers of Realpolitik.
How's Your W.Q.? Didio Antis has come up with a test of your "Wisdom Quotient."
Hsin Hsin Ming: Two Translations. The Clarke and Suzuki translations, side by side.
Huang's Law. Douglas Huang. At last, the truth about the Information Age, in one sentence.
Human History in One Easy Lesson. Joey Ancaster explains it all--or at least most of it--in 10 cartoon panels.
Human Sexuality: The Problem. Why the second--or the tenth--coming is never enough.
Humpty Dumpty à la mode humaine. Astraeu Chakra on the loss of art--and so much more--in Baghdad, and in Washington.
HUSH! Horticulturalist Izora Firelands's bit of admonitory free-verse.
Idea Man. Ideas from all over.
Implications. Pedro Bofecillos uses eight words to make two statements and ask two questions.
Inferences. Added to The Chiliastic Hideon.
Instant Guide to a Wasted Life.
Intellectual Life in America. Maurice Fitznuggly on those who sit and think.
Interregnum or Neoregnum? Anna-Marie Quave on American democracy, past, present, and future.
In the Shallows. Further notes on neo-speciation.
Iris Murdoch: Fragments of a Re-cognition. Douglas Milburn.
Irrational Exuberances. Piongo Pisgah. Notes from the end of a marriage of inconvenience.
Is It Dictatorship Yet? Doc Cuddy's handy little checklist.
Is It Fascism Yet? A checklist to help you keep up with how things are going, Bush-wise.
Island Revisited. Reppy Duart looks at Huxley's utopia again 40 years later.
It Really Is the Economy, Stupid. Katherine Ozanic on the reflections in the recently formed Lake George, Louisiana, and, well, compassion.
It's the Education, Stupid. Michelle Furr looks for a way through the wilderness.
It's the Schools, Stupid. Behind all the other failures lies a dormant, vacuous education system.
It's the Stupidity, Stupid. Douglas Milburn tries to understand voter behavior in the red states.
"I Want My Mommy!" Elinor Hoefs tries to put Sept. 11 into a much larger perspective.
Je n'accuse pas: Us and Scapegoats. Doc Cuddy tries to figure out whose fault IT is.
Johann-come-lately. In which we trace roots of certain German feelings of inferiority.
John Fowles on Men, Women, and War.
Joy. Nicholas Momurray appreciates a forgotten photo from Tiananmen Square.
Just 16 Words? Our public service bumper sticker to help us remember why we invaded Iraq.
KAF! KAF! Let Us Prey. Doc Cuddy looks for--and finds--some hope in this belligerent world.
Kindergartens I Have Known. Chardo Blue Plains. More trans-galactic musings.
Koans for the 21st Century. Twelve, count 'em, twelve.
Koi Paraga? Chardo Blue Plains has suggestions for your metaphysical travel plans.
Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish.
The Last Illusion. In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Leçons de Ténèbres.
Leçons de Ténèbres Part the Second.
Let 'Em Speak Greek. Henry Bob Kulup. What's wrong with America's schools.
Lethe Lite. Cassandra. What's really wrong with television.
Let It Scroll No. 96,412. Jason Twinhaft. A thought for the day.
Let's Pretend. Pedro Bofecillos. Can midi sound effects tell a story?
Life for Dummies (On One Page). Douglas Milburn. Yup. Everything you need to know. On one page.
Lightning: 2 Questions. Bloce Kaibob on NASA's global map of lightning strikes.
Lines to a Father on His Day. Henry Bob Kulup on daddies and their violence, both private and public.
Looking for the Answer? Have we got the page for you! Click now for our world-famous, absolutely free slide-show called "Watch This Space for the Answer."
The Madness of King George: Folie à deux cents millions. Doc Cuddy does a psychiatric work-up on a certain prominent individual.
Magellan's Lesson. Anyone for the other shore?
The Magellan's Log Ego Altar.
The Magellan's Log Mind Diet.
The Magellan's Log Really Short Reading List & Brief Guide to Worldly Wisdom.
The Maggots of Belsen. Douglas Milburn. The what-it-is of Magellan's Log, sort of.
M&M. Michelle Furr. Two far-out reaons why the NASDAQ crash may not be too bad.
Me and the Archie Bunker Syndrome. Sawyer Brown. Truth in voting.
Me and My Century. Single images representing the 20th century.
Meditator. 250k-animated GIF as 21st-century role model.
Me! Me! Me! Reppy Toppenish. Why what I believe is right and what you believe is stupid.
The Metaphysical Stereopticon. Pedro Bofecillos. Five pairs of pictures for you Zen delight.
Michel Foucault à la Bernaise. Where and how the French went wrong.
Mi Elección Es Su Elección. Doc Cuddy on fixing American miseducation.
Milburn’s Cat vs. Schrödinger’s Cat. Wuss vs. Heisenberg et al.
Milburn's Law of Attention. 20 words, 1 comma, 2 periods.
Milburn's Razor. An addendum to Occam's Razor, for the new millennium.
Millennium No. 3: Babies, Bathwaters, and Poets. Maurice Fitznuggly. What the 21st century doesn't know it needs.
The Millennium Project. Our modest proposal for finding a solution to the problem of human violence.
Mi NASA es su NASA. Slide show of true-color photos of the earth, with midi.***
Mind Meteors. Douglas Milburn on certain puzzling ripples in the history of consciousness.
The Mind of George W. Bush. Doc Cuddy on George W. Bush as a product of deep West Texas.
Minds Like Ours. Ho-hum. Six more pretentious sentences from our editor in chief.
Minds Like Ours. Sylvia Sikeston on trees and people.
Mind-tailings. Chardo Blue Plains reports from Leadville, Colorado.
M.I.Q. Maurice Fitznuggly on the multiplicity of intelligences (yawn).
Mirror Image. Cheki Boggus on the problem with theists.
Mnemonicae. 80 wee photos to help remember that which cannot be forgotten.
Mockingbird-brand Condensed Books.
More Galaxies Than You Can Shake a Telescope At. Slideshow of Hubble Space Telescope photos, with midi (6:47).
My Invisibilities Are Bigger Than Your Invisibilities. A visit to Celebration, Florida, produces stranges musings on the seen and the unseen.
My Love Is Like an Orange, Orange Rose. Douglas Milburn. A fairy tale for the vision-impaired.
My Myth vs. Yours. Let's make a deal...
La musique, c’est à toi: Celebratory Field Notes Toward a New Music. Douglas Milburn.Mutants R Us. Doc Cuddy. The search for cosmic contact lenses.
Myopia and Megalomania. Lulu Dilworth offer short-term despair and long-term hope.
Les naivités dangereuses. Rean Rhyne. The dangerous misuse, and death, of words.
Nature. Old, old Asian words, not quite so old European music.
Naughty But Nice. Musings on good and evil by Reppy Duart.
NCM & the Roots of Consciousness. Hinko Livernoix. Nature-Centered Meditation? Why not?
Neo-Edwardians: Us the Unknowing. Cassandra predicts. Again.
The Next Big Thing: The Tragic Irony Behind the Present American Administration. Doc Cuddy.
The Next Year-Zero. Mired in durance, we are voyeurs of permanence.
The Next Heresy: Young Heretics and the Binocular Mind. Douglas Milburn.
The New Musics: Celebratory Field Notes Toward a Better World. Douglas Milburn.
The New Olduvai Theory. Cassandra's introduction and link to an overlooked keynote speech at a recent geololists' meeting.
News & Opinion Links. Sites to help you find out what's really going on.
Nicotine Stains. Henery Bob Kulup on the unknown dangers of a nicotine-free society.
9-11 and In-your-face Hatred, Insanity... and Hope. Anna-Marie Quave. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
9-11 Redux. A True-life Story of Arab Anger and Punishment and a Theory About What Happened to Osama bin Laden and What’s About to Happen to Saddam Hussein.
9-11 vs. 11-1. Elinor Hoefs ponders the effects of 9-11 compared to those of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755.
No Bucks for Bad Ads. Doc Cuddy takes out after advertising.
Noir and American Truth: Lines After Reading Megan Abbott. Elinor Hoefs reaches for the dark heart of America.
No Joy in Mudville. Ceci Lumley. Who's having fun in this Age of Affluence?
North Dakota Wants to Know. Chardo Blue Plains has a question.
Nought for All & All for Nought. Chardo Blue Plains, on his latest wanderings.
Novalis. Douglas Milburn. New translations of old ideas.
Number Sense. A few revealing statistics about American governance, 2001-2004.
Nursery Tales. Saramae Anahuac has a question about the cultural sacred cow of your choice.
Oak Creek Canyon August 26, 2000. A panoramic photograph.
The Official Magellan's Log Guide to Perfection.
The Oilman's Burden. Rudyard Kipling updated for the new empire.
On Disappearance. Reppy Duart tries to ponder the Really Big Question.
One Light. Douglas Traherne Harding's 300-year-old words.***
The One-percent Dissolution: Glenn Gould, George W. Bush and Me. Doc Cuddy improbably links an inspired pianist and a misguided president.
On Erring.
On the Invisible. Chardo Blue Plains.
On Yoga. Douglas Milburn points at a finger pointing at the moon.
Oops! The Eternal Adolescence of the American Mind. Our editor again goes way out on a limb (what else is new?).
Optical Allusions. Pictures to cross your eyes by.
The Ages of Cowardice. Anna-Marie Quave on, well, everybody.
The Other F-word. A little test to help you be sure our leaders aren't drifting toward, well, you know, f - scism.
Out of the Mouths of Babes. Doc Cuddy on Clinton Boisvert and unacknowledged American fear.
Ozymandias, the Sequel. Sic transit gloria Bush (with apologies to Shelley).
Pacific Afternoon. Herbert Lehnert. Thoughts on a beach in Southern California.
Paradises Then and Now. West of Eden, we glance back.
Patience. A pixel-stitched sampler for a troubling age.
Pensées 122. Mac Nevitor's evidence of his recent neuronal activity, such as it is.
Pentimento. Edward Hothi. Poetry.
The People's Republic of America??? Doc Cuddy's worried about the Bill of Rights.
Photon's Lament. Harriet Lobdell sums a lot of it up in six lines.
Pixels' Delight. Mystic Chardo Blue Plains's latest enigmatic report from the American Outback.
Plant a Seed in the Desert. Our small contribution to international consciousness-raising.
Pneumatics 101. Reppy Duart, D.D., unleashes a lot of hot air. Only thing is, he's serious.
The Poison of Power. Joel Fluker on how we got into this mess, and how we may get out.
Polynos: The Fragmente Issue: Petit hommage à Friedrich von Hardenberg a.k.a. Novalis mostly writ while reading Cormac McCarthy.
Pong et seq. Douglas Milburn. Videogames and the origins of consciousness.
The Pooh Profits. Douglas Milburn. A memento mori for the 21st century.
Practitioners. A few words to the wise concerning kultural kwiksand.
Praise. Words in denial thereof.
Prayer Redux. Religionists will be distraught. Others merely traught.
PS, I Love You! In Praise of Photoshop. Jason Twinhaft.
Quarrelsome Quips from the Ancient Chinese, No. 18,452
The Quiet Hour Revolution. Saramae Anahuac's modest proposal to grease some of the world's squeakier wheels.
Quote Me This. Quotations, with pictures, and music by Josquin Desprez.
Reader's Delight
Reading-readiness for Grown-ups. Astraeu Chakra. 10 comic strips to exercise your narrative skills.
Readings for Possible Futures. A recently unearthed 1960s artifact.
readme.txt. Two lists of books: the standard European canon, and our suggested additions.
Reality Check No. 14,739.
Really Really Last Words. Staff-gathered quotes for the second ending of the millennium.
Red.
The Regretful Visitor. Chardo Blue Plains reports again from the empyrean.
The Relentless Pursuit of Ragged Perfection. Ceci Lumley on the lack of real genius in the present era.
Remembering.
Reverse-engineering Militant Islam. Catherine Ozanic on the forgotten way of peace at the heart of Islam.
Revolution No. 2? Anna-Marie Quave tries to see a peaceful, positive way out of the present political mess.
Rootless. Harriett Lobdell's lines on the true value of silence.
Rove v. Rave. Pedro Bofecillos takes out after the anti-fun people presently running America (and the world).
Rubaiyat Redux. Edward FitzGerald's effective, if highly ambiguous, antidote to the madness of whatever era you happen to find yourself in.
Rules of Human Cultural History. A photograph. Of a wall. With words.
R U Vaginally Challenged? Doc Cuddy compares horny young Muslims and repressed American politicians.
Saltlick: Mind Food for Cyber-nomads. Douglas Milburn. Meditation, anew.
Sensing. Stickum No. 291,478. Bemused by bemazed micelets.
The 17th Hole at Sawgrass. Lulu Dilworth takes golf as metaphor and finds hope for the American electorate.
Sillinesses. Revered smartpants get their comeuppance (sort of).
Singing Lessons. Pedro Bofecillos on violence, fathers, sons, and hope.
The Silent Minority. Phalba Gallatin on those who know but do not speak.
Through a Doorway Darkly. Slideshow with Bach midi 3:44).
Skintones. Kai Sonderling. 17 highly ambiguous G-rated images.
S L A C K. Ceci Lumley. A word-grid.
Smart Mouths. Our latest collection of quotes gathered from hither and yon.
Smart Mouths 63. More salty, sage, and salacious quotations.
Smart Mouths 65. Yet more good quotes, old and new.
Smart Mouths 66. Another collection of utterances by the woeful and the wise.
Smart Mouths 67.
Smart Mouths 71. More thinkable quotations.
Smart Mouths 72.
Smart Mouths 74.
Smart Mouths 77. Great quotes gathered from around the Internet.
Smart Mouths 95. Our latest collection of noteworthy quotes.
Solar Reflections. Piongo Pisgah's lines on the solstice.
Some Call It Faith. Douglas Milburn watches with incredulity as an American president steps over the line (again). In The Chiliastic Hideon.
Some Thousands of Years Ago. Chardo Blue Plains's latest mystical suggestion.
The Spitting Image. Diebold Essen. Frank Stella's Prince of Homberg.
Stickums. Nos. 16252 and 16253 in a long-running series of words that you live by at your own risk.
Strata: A Theologico-metaphysical Thought Experiment for the Stout of Brain and the Desperate of Heart.
Suddenly, Next Summer. In-house prophet Cassandra explains the coming doom-and-gloom.
Summing It Up. Chardo Blue Plains on what it all means, Alfie.
Survival of the Niftiest. Astraeu Chakar on the "psychic origin of species."
Tainted Words and the Problem of Religion. Pedro Bofecillos.
Target. Another of our modest tributes to the glories of Late Capitalism. Image with music (3:00).
Taughtology. Katherine Ozanic. Nine words to live by.
Teaching: A Thought Experiment. Angus Verspeeten.
Technological Utopians of the World, Unite! Rean Rhyne argues for a full global stomach.
10,000 Jesuses. Reppy Duart, D.D., on Jesus 1,000 years from now.
Test Your Gullibility. John Mimbres.
Texas Daddies. Joel Fluker explains Dubya and Dubya's forebears and how they came to rule the world (that means us).
Texas vs. China.
Thanatotic Bloopers. Elinor Hoefs vents spleen on what she calls the deathbook industry.
Things Fall Apart. Joey Ancaster.
Thinkers Anonymous. Free membership card in our new organization for those who think too much (or at all).
Thinking Against the Wind. Doc Cuddy's latest collection of thought-provoking quotes.
Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn's "escalation ladder."
Thought-provoker. A strange little statistic to help you think outside of the box.
The Discriminating Mind.
3 Life-saving Bookmarks. Free! Free! Free!   A handy version of the Hsin Hsin Ming.
3000 C.E. & the Great How-dun-it. Which of our books are they gonna be reading a thousand years from now?
The 3 Turnings. Elinor Hoefs. Personality problems in us, and in the body politic.
Thunderclaps. Chardo Blue Plains. Timely tips on disappearing.
Timid Thinkers. Our thought for the biennium.
Timothy Leary's Last Laugh. Edward Hothi on how American wound up being run by nitwits.
Timothy Leary--Warts and All. Astraeu Chakar is unhappy with the blindered reviews of the first biography of Leary.
Tip for Would-be Paradigm Shifters.
Today's Brainteaser.
To Flee or Not to Flee. Doc Cuddy on the coming American exodus.
To F--- or to Be F---ed, That Is the 21st-Century Question. Angus Verspeeting on what to buy with $3,000.
Toilet Training. Six sad and angry lines from Harriet Lobdell.
Toward Gingerbread. Back to Hansel and Gretel.
Toxicity and Incompetence. Doc Cuddy on the source of poison in American society.
Tranquillity Base 2? Doc Cuddy on hope during Vietnam and the lack of hope during Iraq.
The Tree Man (Revised). Douglas Milburn.
Trennungsangst. Ulrich von Kleinschwanz-Ohnehosen. Why what's wrong is wrong. Maybe.
The Triumph of the Ill. Leni Riefenstahl et al. updated.
Truth. Well. Sort of. Maybe.
TV Commercials as Haiku. Diebold Essen.
The 20th Century in 20 Minutes. Angus Verspeeten on Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio.
29 Words for a Time of Psychic Contagion.
The Two Questions of the Century. Sawyer Brown.
Understanding Our Modern Age in 50 Words or Less. Two telling quotes.
U N I T Y. The world's longest, slowest Internet slideshow.
Unscientific Questions. John Mimbres. Dangers of the herd-instinct in science.
US Vs. THEM. Cheki Boggus on the roots of human conflict.
A Very Brief Essay on the Origin of Anthropomorphic Deities. Reppy Duart, D.D.
La Vida un Sueño. Pedro Bofecillos on taboos, dreams, frontiers, and the great silence.
La vida un sueño. Back to the basics. Slideshow with midi.
Vietnam / Iraq: Quotations from Another War, 1961-1995.
Voices from the Past. John D. MacDonald's private eye Travis McGee on education.
Walls: A Meditation on Power. Harriet Lobdell.
The Walking Wounded. Doc Cuddy. Humanity as a victim of PTSD.
War Clouds. Chardo Blue Plains. [In The Chiliastic Hideon.]
The War of Art. Pedro Bofecillos on the art of the war novel, and why you might want to read Gabe Hudson's Dear Mr. President.
The War on Errorism. Joel Fluker gives us a new word to desribe the domestic behavior of the present American government.
Water. Our graphic/musical contribution to simplification. Slideshow with midi (3:27).
The Water or the Wave? A question from John Fowles's The Magus. Image with midi.
We, ALL the People. Harriet Lobdell on the bad and the possible future good of 9-11-01.
Weeds. A hectoring question or a gentle reminder?
We Live in a Library. Cheki Boggus sums everything up in 50 words or less.
What Changed? In 9-11 Cassandra sees her usual doom- and- gloom, but some hope too.
What, Me Chatter? Chardo Blue Plains on what's wrong with your/my/
everybody's internal reality. Yawn.
What Price Empire? Lulu Dilworth on why now is like the summer of 1914.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's Log.
What's Wrong with the World. Marcel Snapfinger does his best.
What They Didn't Teach You in Vacation Bible School.
Wheel of Wheels. A bit of canonical amusement for the winter solstice, etc.
Wheel Words
When Art Smarts. Diebold Essen. Derek Jarman's The Last of England.
When in doubt, advertise. Doc Cuddy. Should we enlist Madison Avenue in the war effort?
Where Are the Aliens Now That We Really Need Them? Rean Rhyne on the role of scapegoats in history and the desirability a UFO-landing.
Where Lies Hope? A clue in an unlikely place, the editorial page of The Times of London...
Which Future Is in Our Car(d)s? Pedkop Bumbera's hopeful take on the 2005 Detroit Auto Show.
"Who Ate la Plume de Ma Tante?" Jason Twinhaft on American linguistic provincialism and what to do about it.
The Willed Suspension of Belief. Douglas Milburn. Life among the sleepwalkers.
Wings of Song: Letter to a Young Friend in a Time of War. Sawyer Brown.***
The Wise and Foolish Virgins One More Time. Anonymous, on pain.
Wittgenstein Clarified. Piongo Pisgah answers all your questions in 2 sentences.
Words! Our version of the last line of the "Hsin Hsin Ming."
Writ in Stone. Seven marmoreal tablets from a mythical city.
Wrong Thinking and the Current American Mess. Doc Cuddy.
Zen Centerfold No. 4. Another picture for horny metaphysicians. Slideshow with midi (2:30).
Zen Centerfold 65. Slideshow with midi (2:26).
Zen Centerfold 72. Image with midi (1:58).
Zen Centerfold 96. Slideshow with midi (3:59).

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