Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Scapegoats: The Next Generation
Kids are the Funniest Things
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Review
Phys. Ed.
Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
by Roger G. Newton
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed our Understanding of Space and Time
by Michio Kaku
Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
by Victor J. Stenger
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
book reviews
by David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoons & commentary
"Fantasy Frontier"
by Dan Darrow

"Mess with the best, die like the rest"
by Mike Nudelma n

"$300 billion and counting"
by Jamie Smith

"With eyes to see the lies"
photo & caption by Douglas Yates

Editorial
Sacrifice and the Commons

Firebreak
by Sarah Wolfe

Letters to the Editor
Ms. N.I. Eave
Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks
Thom Delayed

poetry
"Good for Business"
by David A. James

Postal News
Stork Report
Quinn Alexander Therrell
by D. Helfferich

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink
The Deft Palate
Summer eating, had me a blast
restaurant review
by Mary Haley

Video Dreamland
Hotel Rwanda
In Good Company
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Ray
Suspect Zero
movie reviews
by Thela Clayton

FEATURES

Ester Community Medical Exchange
public announcement

Shared equipment for the community's medical needs.

How I Almost Shot a Grizzly in My Pajamas
(how he got in them...well, you know the rest of the line)
by Art Greenwalt

The author relates tales of his gung-ho hunting days, and the terrible night he faced his worst fear: a bear on the rampage.

Prayer Flags of Nepal
by Terry Glendinning

Sue Farnham went to India and Nepal on a Rasmuson art grant, and has returned to paint monkeys, houses, and prayer flags.

Sliced and Stoned in Honolulu
or, How I Spent My Winter
part two, by Carla Helfferich

Hip replacement surgery was required. And Hawaii looked like the best place to do it—if the insurance companies would quit playing games.

Talkin' 'Bout My Digital Generation
by K.W.M. Farmen

The next great wave, following the Lost Generation and the Baby Boomers: it's not Generation X, it's Those Who Remember Life Before the Internet.

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