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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
The New Age of Irony
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Reviews & Library News
I Feel Just Like Ol' Pancho Villa, Sheila
Tequila! A Natural and Cultural History
by Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata and Gary Paul Nabhan
Tequila: A Traditional Art of Mexico
edited by Alberto Ruy-Sanchez and Margarita de Orellana
book reviews
by
David A. James

Library News:
Books Just Keep on Coming
by D. Helfferich

Calendar of Events

Classifed Ads

Cartoons
"Jim Holm's bitch"
by Dan Darrow

"the ABCs of war"
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
The Stink from Katrina's Corpses Tickles High and Mighty Noses

Letters to the Editor
James King (pseudonym)
Jeff Rogers

Steve Backlund
Rich Seifert

poetry
two untitled haiku
by Ray Hadley

Postal News
They're Okay
public announcement

Hurrican Katina Emergency Animal Relief: a fundraiser
public announcement

Ray's View from the Lump

Victuals & Drink

The Deft Palate
Brewster's
restaurant review
by Mary Haley

Video Dreamland
The Upside of Anger
Guess Who
Miss Congeniality 2
Sin City
A Door in the Floor
movie reviews
by
Thela Clayton

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FEATURES

How've Your Picking's Been?
by Jeffrey A. Rogers

All that dumpster diving has led to huge mounds of perfectly good stuff, a consequent parking shortage, and an inability to find that useful thingy that was next to that other thingy.

Innocence Abroad
by Art Greenwalt

Going to the Lower 48 is no picnic, particularly when humidity, irate cats, and cramped cars are involved.

The Real Alaska
by D. Helfferich

An interview with the owner of Anchorage Guest House and webmaster of a site devoted to support for use of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for subsistence hunting, recreation, and ecotourism.

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

Recovery from major surgery is a tricky, time-consuming business, especially when you can't bend over. This can lead to awkward bathroom situations...

The Source Beyond Rove: Condoleeza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
by Roger Morris, Green Institute senior fellow

The source of the effort to discredit former ambassador Joseph Wilson, including the outing of his CIA-employed wife, had to have been very high up in the Bush administration indeed.

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