June 2003
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R U Vaginally Challenged?
What do horny young Muslims have to do with repressed American politicians? Editor Doc Cuddy has an answer...
Mindfulness
An animated digital painting by Kai Sonderling, plus Handel's
"Sarabande." Slideshow (3:12).
The Wise & Foolish Virgins
One More Time
That rarest of Magellan's Log writers, Anonymous, gives us three over-illustrated pages on, well, pain.
Smart Mouths 67
Out latest collection of sayings from the wild,
the witty, and yes even the wise.
 You gotta s-m-i-l-e
Watch us work a little jigsaw puzzle while
listening to John Downland's "If My Complaints" (1:28).
Mark Twain's War Prayer
 Of all
man's activities, religion is the one that should improve our vision most. In
1904 Mark Twain wrote trenchantly of the danger of
religious myopia in times of patriotic excitement.
Zen Centerfold 67
Yet another of our infamous pictures
for the metaphysically prurient. With midi (4:41).
Demonocracy
 Jack Xamis coins a word to name a disease he thinks is eating at the heart of
America and suggests that the least of our problems is, we think we have 1984 behind
us.
Beautiful Dreamer
189 randomly selected images from our vast trove of graphics resources. Slideshow with midi (3:21).
The Pooh Profits
Douglas Milburn drafts a dreary
little memento mori for the 21st century.
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WORLD SCOOP!
One of our moles has smuggled out of the Pentagon a draft version of the proposed
"Application for Membership in the American Empire." You saw it here first!
Enter, Wilderness
Without once mentioning television or computers, Ceci Lumley points a pretty positive finger toward where the 21st century
is going. Not for thin-skinned geeks.
The New Olduvai Theory
Cassandra, our in-house doom-and-gloom specialist, offers an intro and a link to one greater than she, or at
least one with harder data.
Fenestration
Photo with midi (2:44).
 Lamentations. Seven recent paintings by our non-resident
resident artist, Jean-Marie Putnam Jonré. With midi's from Handel's Aylesford
Pieces.
La vida un sueño
In a time of inflated belligerent egos, grandiose
geopolitical ambitions, and Humvees for the masses, we
get back to the basics. Slideshow with midi.
 Hot Links 67
Yes, we've been wasting at least as much time on the Internet as you have.
Is our latest collection of links bigger than
yours?
2028 and All That
25 years from now we'll be celebrating the silver anniversary of the American
Empire. Our time machine guys in Waxahachie have retrieved a calendar from that year
showing the shape of things to come. Join us in a
premature celebration.
Days of Denial: Some Call It Reason
Our calendar of daily,
therapeutic reminders to help Americans improve their doublethink to get through this,
and following, months.
 Tasteless Jokes 67.
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