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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Is This the Year of the Scapegoat?
A Plea from the Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Reviews & Library News
Inside Passages
Traveler's Tales Alaska
edited by Bill Sherwonit, Andromeda Romano-Lax, and Ellen Bielawski
review by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoons

Department of Homeland Defense
by Dan Darrow

WMD
by RCM

Editorial
Spaced

Firebreak
by Sarah Wolfe

Letters to the Editor
Neal Matson
Mike Musick
Miss Priggy
Ray from the Lump
C.M. Winterhouse

poetry
"the chicken pluckers"
by Shanna Karella

The Postal News
King Banquet
public announcement

Cabaret Nights
public announcement

FBoRDC Forum: The Fourth Amendment
public announcement

Stork Report
Skyler Blaise Turner
Caroline Mary Carrington
Matthew Callum Nelson

by D. Helfferich

Video Dreamland
Pirates of the Caribbean
Seabiscuit
Whale Rider
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Bruce Almighty
Legally Blonde 2
movie reviews
by Thela Clayton

Baghdad Dispatches

FEATURES

Alaskans: Guard Your Treasures
by Rich Seifert

The Permanent Fund can be used for state funding and remain permanent if we pass an income tax.

BiPolarity
by D. Helfferich

The Ester half of the Second BiPolar Art Show (McMurdo wasn't on line yet).

Dispatches from Iraq
stories & photos by Dahr Jamail

Our Baghdad correspondent tells it like he sees it, on the ground in Iraq. In this article, the author provides dispatches on food & fuel costs, a special children's school, a raid on a secondary school, and a memorial to bomb victims in Amiriyah.

Humor Sells
story & photos by Terry Glendinning

Sandy Jamieson's sense of humor has paid off.

New Year's Bowl 2004
by "Bonecrusher" Billington

Team Dougie-fresh and the Freshtones versus Hillary's Hellions: a match made in beverage-freezing weather.

Red Hot Lava
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

When geologists see molten rock, all else takes second place, even in Hawaii.

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