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January
05: New Laws of the Universe (1 comments)
05: The Straight Dope on D&D (2 comments)
05: Long Geeky Dissertation on Star Wars Philosophy (28 comments)
05: Eradicate Stupidity (4 comments)
06: Subsidizing Vision (8 comments)
07: Hyperbole of the Year (3 comments)
07: Bioengineering Better Mosquitos (4 comments)
07: How We Should Be Changing Immigration Policy (0 comments)
08: 50 Most Underrated Films (4 comments)
08: Enter The Meatrix (5 comments)
09: Are We At War? (16 comments)
12: Power on Chomsky (1 comments)
12: Liberal Hawk Reflections (2 comments)
13: Space Poll (0 comments)
13: Kerry's Vote for War (2 comments)
13: Liberal Hawks (Part II) (9 comments)
14: How to Know When We've Won (30 comments)
15: Fareed Zakaria on Iraq (9 comments)
19: Selling the War (13 comments)
19: Direct Democracy in Iraq (2 comments)
20: Haves and Have-Nots (5 comments)
21: SOTU (8 comments)
21: The Downsides of AI Research (1 comments)
21: Sullivan's Reaction to the SOTU (8 comments)
22: Interactive Hamlet (0 comments)
22: The Gay Vote (7 comments)
23: Science and Setbacks (0 comments)
27: Neural Net Project Update (2 comments)
27: Humanitarian Justification (10 comments)
30: What is Evolution? (2 comments)
February
01: Dying to Throw Stones at the Devil (5 comments)
02: As the World Fails North Korea (14 comments)
02: Hitchens on WMD and Saddam (6 comments)
02: Metal Pasties and Plausible Deniability (6 comments)
02: Robots in War (1 comments)
03: NYT Astrologizes Dem Candidates (2 comments)
03: Fish Piercing (0 comments)
03: Hooking Up Kucinich (0 comments)
03: Bush Reading Newspapers (7 comments)
04: Hitchens and Tavis (1 comments)
04: Cast Your Vote for Jesus! (10 comments)
05: Gender Roles and Raising Kids (7 comments)
06: Democratic Electability (7 comments)
09: Coldplay Endorses Wrong Guy (2 comments)
09: NPR Voodoo (0 comments)
10: Whom to Vote For (16 comments)
10: Liberté Religieuse (6 comments)
10: Boys' State (2 comments)
11: President Mismatch (6 comments)
11: The Gospel According to Mel (4 comments)
11: Colonel Campenni on Bush's Military Record (1 comments)
12: Cloning Revisited (7 comments)
13: Racing for Jesus (3 comments)
17: America in Therapy (20 comments)
18: Revolution Via Technology (1 comments)
18: Five Blades Are Better Than One (1 comments)
19: Democrats and Terrorism (26 comments)
20: Little Dog, Big Dog (0 comments)
20: Here Comes Ralph (8 comments)
22: Hypervelocity Rod Bundles (36 comments)
22: Two Questions Russert Didn't Ask Nader (4 comments)
23: Catholic Depravity (6 comments)
24: Gender and the City (3 comments)
24: Amendments Restricting Rights (13 comments)
24: The French Piss Off Al Qaeda (1 comments)
24: Texan Prejudice (17 comments)
25: ANJI (2 comments)
26: Philosophy in Schools (7 comments)
26: Autonomous Motorcycles (2 comments)
26: BBC Guide to Religion (1 comments)
27: Cottling the Religious Right (1 comments)
March
01: Working for Wal-Mart (11 comments)
02: Busy, Busy Pope (5 comments)
03: The Left and Totalitarianism (22 comments)
04: Bush's Ads (5 comments)
04: Civil Disobedience (1 comments)
04: Switchback Kerry (9 comments)
04: Nader on Real Time (3 comments)
05: Kim Jong Il Thinks Kerry Is A-OK (22 comments)
05: Catholic Charities and Birth Control (9 comments)
05: Disarming Libya (15 comments)
08: Snappy Comebacks (13 comments)
09: God Exists (8 comments)
10: Screw My MTV...I Want My Comedy Central (11 comments)
10: The Look of a Dog Being Washed (4 comments)
13: DARPA Duds (1 comments)
13: Putting Death Tolls in Perspective (13 comments)
15: Taking Comedians Seriously (10 comments)
15: Spanish Appeasement (4 comments)
16: Sullivan on The Guardian (0 comments)
16: World Leaders Who Support Kerry (4 comments)
17: Illegal Wars (34 comments)
17: What is an Attack Ad? (2 comments)
17: How Bad is the Unemployment Rate? (12 comments)
18: Friedman on Spain (5 comments)
19: Escaped Gorilla Shot (0 comments)
19: Rumsfeld Editorial in the NY Times (6 comments)
22: Put My Tumor Back! (5 comments)
22: Godless Americans PAC (2 comments)
23: Clarke Told Us So (4 comments)
23: Ruling on the Pledge (6 comments)
24: A Few Stupid Pledge Arguments (7 comments)
24: Bush and Kerry on the Pledge Issue (2 comments)
24: Gallagher on the Source of Rights (0 comments)
24: Pledge Update (2 comments)
24: And Explain This One... (2 comments)
25: Pledge Case Wrap-Up...For Now (3 comments)
25: Carlin's Comments on Real Time (3 comments)
26: Clarke Then and Now (2 comments)
29: Bush and Stem Cell Research (0 comments)
30: The X Prize (0 comments)
30: Hitchens' Mini-Review of The Last Samurai (0 comments)
April
05: What We Talk About When We Talk About God (1 comments)
05: Unanswered Questions About Iraq (14 comments)
06: American Condom Use Survey (3 comments)
07: Preventing Crime With Prayer (5 comments)
08: Assumptions of Rationality in Debate (3 comments)
08: The Passion of the Bunny (4 comments)
09: Yahooligans! Sucks (0 comments)
12: Black Swans (0 comments)
12: Jon Stewart -- Not Funny? (8 comments)
12: Dean Anti-Campaigns for Nader (11 comments)
13: Fafblog Defends Coke (0 comments)
13: Les Miserabless (0 comments)
13: Being Stern on Stern (10 comments)
14: Multilateral Kidnapping (5 comments)
15: Religious Prisons (5 comments)
16: Bradbury on Mars (0 comments)
16: The Idiotic Controversy Over GMail (11 comments)
21: Preliminary Thoughts on GMail (5 comments)
21: Mocking Religion (5 comments)
22: UN Legitimacy (10 comments)
22: Truth in Marketing (3 comments)
23: Kerry and Religion (1 comments)
23: The Fetus as Property (3 comments)
23: The God Number (0 comments)
24: Dealing Donuts (3 comments)
26: GMail and Spam (2 comments)
27: Iraq's New Flag (1 comments)
28: McDermott Says the Pledge (9 comments)
May
02: American Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners (2 comments)
03: More on Iraqi Prison Abuse (0 comments)
03: A Few Religious Stories (2 comments)
05: Fool Efficiency (5 comments)
09: NeuroEvolution Visualization Toolkit (4 comments)
10: Presidential Briefings and Graphic Design (4 comments)
14: Wicca Teens (11 comments)
14: Fire and Rain (2 comments)
14: VDH and Friedman on Rumsfeld (2 comments)
17: Iraq Debate (8 comments)
17: In America (3 comments)
17: BBC Sarin Double-speak (6 comments)
18: What Means This "Public" Radio? (1 comments)
19: Texas Goes After the Unitarians (2 comments)
20: Alien Agnosticism (10 comments)
25: A History of American Secularism (6 comments)
26: Potato Chips and Sarin Shells (13 comments)
26: Teaching Flashback (2 comments)
28: A Lobster Recanting (5 comments)
June
01: Being Skeptical (2 comments)
01: 7 Minutes (12 comments)
01: Back Alley Abortion Death Rates (12 comments)
02: Blackout (4 comments)
02: Spelling Bees Still Be Stupid (11 comments)
04: The First Private Space Flight (2 comments)
07: President Reagan (10 comments)
08: ANJI Released (6 comments)
14: Ensoulment-O-Meter (8 comments)
14: Supreme Cowards (15 comments)
15: Secular Nannytollahs (30 comments)
16: Rocky Mountain High (7 comments)
18: TNR on Going to War With Iraq (14 comments)
21: Hitchens on Why Michael Moore Sucks (111 comments)
22: Catholic Fugitives (4 comments)
23: Fareed Zakaria on Rebuilding Iraq (5 comments)
24: When to Care About a Politician's Sex Life (10 comments)
24: The Stupidity of the Draft (6 comments)
25: Off to Seattle (2 comments)
30: Still in Seattle (3 comments)
July
07: Tone Deaf to Irony (12 comments)
07: TAAH Flashback (16 comments)
11: Rich Man, Rich Man (21 comments)
12: God and Genetic Algorithms (2 comments)
14: Fight Crap With Crap (80 comments)
14: Edwards' Tax Shelter (7 comments)
15: Extortion Works (2 comments)
15: The Saudi Flights (12 comments)
19: A Better World (8 comments)
19: Ay, Robot (6 comments)
19: When One Is Enough (14 comments)
20: Error in the Skies? (13 comments)
21: Desperado (0 comments)
21: Sporting Kerry (3 comments)
22: Behold the Bipedal Monkey (5 comments)
22: Bipedal Monkey Marches to Vatican (1 comments)
23: How They Took the Planes (2 comments)
26: The Appetite For Wonder (5 comments)
26: Saddam: Muffins, Bushes, and Poetry (2 comments)
27: Subtle or Blistering? (3 comments)
27: Carter's Speech (3 comments)
28: Pro-Science President (1 comments)
28: Obama's Speech (4 comments)
28: Moore vs. O'Reilly (17 comments)
29: My Grandfather Was a Goat-Ball Licker (0 comments)
29: Gonzo Demagoguery (0 comments)
29: More on Sudan (12 comments)
29: Ultrasonic Squirrels (0 comments)
29: (Rich) Americans' Incomes Fell for Two Years (8 comments)
30: Because We Have To (4 comments)
30: What if the Asshole's Right? (0 comments)
August
03: Something Old, Something New (2 comments)
04: It's All About "Tone" (11 comments)
04: Fred Kaplan on the Latest Threat (0 comments)
04: Wars of Choice (2 comments)
04: How About a Victory Strategy? (4 comments)
05: Overstretched? (13 comments)
05: Biden Gets It (4 comments)
06: When a Gaffe is Not a Gaffe (26 comments)
06: How to Really Lie with Statistics (6 comments)
12: C-SPANNING (12 comments)
14: A Short Survey (11 comments)
15: Sensitivity Training (20 comments)
17: Treaties and War (6 comments)
18: Scaling Down the Troops (10 comments)
19: Google and Creationism (6 comments)
23: Where Would Jesus Dine? (5 comments)
23: Boat Veterans' Ad Not So Swift (12 comments)
24: Democrats Against Democracy (18 comments)
25: Kerry on The Daily Show (19 comments)
25: Sterling Technophobia (4 comments)
26: Perspective on Poverty (13 comments)
30: Morons Over Broadway (16 comments)
30: Losing Our Humanity (16 comments)
30: A Commercial for Authoritarianism (21 comments)
31: RNC: Day One (4 comments)
September
01: Arnold's Speech (9 comments)
02: Binary States (7 comments)
02: Talking to Aliens (1 comments)
02: Hastert on Drugs (4 comments)
02: New York and the RNC (10 comments)
02: What Do You Mean By a Metaphor? (4 comments)
03: Our Horrible Economy (6 comments)
03: Bush's Speech (3 comments)
07: Hero Redux (25 comments)
07: The Passion of Dogville (13 comments)
07: So What Does 'F' Stand For? (2 comments)
08: Children Flying Jets and Driving Tanks (8 comments)
08: Noah's Lark (3 comments)
08: Jackass in the Box (10 comments)
09: How to Beat Bush (11 comments)
09: New Bush Docs Forgeries (6 comments)
10: Lileks on Spiegelman (11 comments)
12: Albright Not All That Bright (9 comments)
13: The Meaning of Life (1 comments)
13: Liberalism in SF (3 comments)
13: Why They Hate Freedom (5 comments)
14: Sullivan on Rathergate (20 comments)
14: Why the UN is a Joke (Part 683) (12 comments)
15: No Blood For Oil (7 comments)
16: Criticizing the Saudis (3 comments)
16: Ivan, From the ISS (2 comments)
17: Handguns are Assault Weapons (10 comments)
20: Non-Needs-Based Programs (10 comments)
20: B.S. News (5 comments)
21: Sucker or Idealist? (8 comments)
21: Iran Defies the U.N. (4 comments)
21: Lucy "Harvey" Ramirez (1 comments)
22: Iraq and the War on Terror (19 comments)
22: Bush the Liberal (22 comments)
22: On-Demand Grid Computing (0 comments)
22: Amendment 36 (4 comments)
22: The Legality of the War (32 comments)
22: The Legality of the War (Take Two) (8 comments)
23: Kerry's Vote for War (Take Two) (3 comments)
23: Afghanistan Update (7 comments)
24: One Nation, Under Idiots (8 comments)
24: Banning the Bible (11 comments)
25: Twisting Words? (22 comments)
26: A Honkless Afternoon (3 comments)
27: Three Questions (14 comments)
27: The Electoral Race (7 comments)
28: Neocon Philosophy (18 comments)
28: Making a Mess Out of a Mess (12 comments)
29: Fueling Innovation With Greed (1 comments)
29: Heroism and Vigilantism (24 comments)
29: Anarchy Rules (3 comments)
30: Kerry on Iraq (7 comments)
30: Debate Alert: Terry McAuliffe is a Douchebag (4 comments)
30: Why We Don't Need a Draft (6 comments)
30: The Likeability Hump (4 comments)
30: Liveblogging the Debate (15 comments)
October
01: Kerry's Plan on Iraq (0 comments)
01: Debate Alert: Wesley Clark is a Douchebag (12 comments)
01: The Exchange on Iran and North Korea (9 comments)
04: Nuclear Proliferation and the Debate (3 comments)
04: Another Afghanistan Update (7 comments)
04: Tied, But Not Really (9 comments)
04: The Dark Architect Vs. The Sunny Southerner (7 comments)
05: Electoral Apocalypse (7 comments)
05: Tutu on The Daily Show (4 comments)
05: More Reuters on the Veep Candidates (10 comments)
05: Polygamy Revisited (7 comments)
06: The VP Debate (6 comments)
06: Edwards' Attendance (8 comments)
06: Carlson on Kerry on Iraq (5 comments)
07: The Liberal Cause in the Middle East (1 comments)
08: Michael Moore and Underpants (23 comments)
08: What is a Coalition? (11 comments)
08: Black Sky (2 comments)
09: Debate Reactions (9 comments)
11: Kerry and Bush on Energy (15 comments)
11: Kerry Interview in the NY Times Magazine (32 comments)
11: Anybody But Bush or Kerry (5 comments)
11: How About "Never"? (5 comments)
12: Colorado's Electoral Reform (5 comments)
12: JournalScan (0 comments)
13: Parker/Stone Interview in Salon (8 comments)
13: Volokh on Abortion (1 comments)
13: Goddamn Optimism (0 comments)
13: Frost vs. Sessions (2 comments)
14: Moore on Maher (8 comments)
14: The Candidates on Religion (30 comments)
14: A Snail on My Bumper (3 comments)
15: Hope For Democracy (3 comments)
15: Stem Cell Misinformation (9 comments)
16: Jon Stewart on Crossfire (25 comments)
18: Fahrenheit 9/11 (13 comments)
18: Team America (2 comments)
18: Ali vs. Hitchens (19 comments)
19: Operation: Get Informed and Vote (1 comments)
19: More on Stewart on Crossfire (15 comments)
19: Bush, Diplomacy, and China (8 comments)
19: JibJab (2 comments)
20: Who the Hell Are We Fighting? (14 comments)
20: Gibson and Sterling on Bush (13 comments)
21: Sadomasochistic Group Sex (6 comments)
21: The New Republic Endorses Kerry (4 comments)
21: Lileks on Teresa vs. Laura (5 comments)
22: Maybe We're All Morons (23 comments)
22: Isaac Newton (5 comments)
23: Hitchens on Tobacco (in person!) (1 comments)
25: Being Realistic About Terrorism (8 comments)
25: 22 Questions (9 comments)
26: The Fog of Elections (11 comments)
26: Super-Duper Magical Negroes (5 comments)
26: Sullivan's Endorsement of Kerry (11 comments)
27: Primer (4 comments)
27: Lileks on Sullivan on Kerry (8 comments)
28: Your Polling Place (1 comments)
28: Peretz on Kerry (19 comments)
28: Rapture of the Nerds (5 comments)
29: Systems, Individuals, and Decision Making (3 comments)
29: The Bin Laden Tape (12 comments)
November
02: My Voting Experience (2 comments)
02: How Low Can You Go? (0 comments)
02: Bush's SAT Scores (19 comments)
02: Video Games, Politics, and Science (1 comments)
03: Too Close to Call (8 comments)
03: Kerry Concedes (3 comments)
03: Bush Accepts (39 comments)
04: What Do Dems Do Now? (3 comments)
04: Ashcroft Gone? (3 comments)
04: Lileks on the Election (3 comments)
04: Contempt : Not a Winning Strategy (38 comments)
04: Purple States (6 comments)
05: The Eagle Party (8 comments)
05: Blue Staters vs. Red Staters (0 comments)
08: The Evangelical Vote Myth (5 comments)
08: Eagle Platform -- First Cut (38 comments)
09: Stickers in Georgia (1 comments)
09: The Last Maher of the Season (7 comments)
10: Wikipolitics (2 comments)
10: Why We Catch Bad Guys (11 comments)
11: AI Research (3 comments)
11: I'm Sorry You're Sorry (48 comments)
15: How to Defeat Superintelligent Computers (4 comments)
15: US-VISIT (1 comments)
15: The Canadian Alternative (5 comments)
16: British Navy Recognizes Satanism (7 comments)
16: What If There Are No Rules? (15 comments)
17: The Politics of The Incredibles (9 comments)
17: Internet Hunting (4 comments)
17: Cross-Dressing is Fun! (8 comments)
17: The Onion Interviews Chris Rock (0 comments)
17: Eagle Platform -- Version 1.1 (28 comments)
18: Google Scholar (3 comments)
18: The Roadrunner and the Coyote: A Critical Analysis (4 comments)
18: Poker (4 comments)
19: VDH on the War (1 comments)
19: Poker Results (2 comments)
22: Kinsey (2 comments)
23: Scientific Literacy (3 comments)
23: The State of Internet Usage (2 comments)
27: Thanksgiving Trip (4 comments)
29: Marriage and Injury (1 comments)
29: Legitimate Elections in Iraq (3 comments)
December
01: Lying to Your Kids Is Good (17 comments)
01: And Speaking of Lying... (3 comments)
02: The Metaverse Is Coming (1 comments)
02: MSN Spaces (1 comments)
02: Talon Units To Be Deployed in Iraq (3 comments)
03: Liberals and Terrorism (23 comments)
06: A Wonderful Message by George Carlin? (6 comments)
06: Opposition to the War in Afghanistan (6 comments)
07: Der Spiegel on Poor Little Kofi Annan (12 comments)
07: Drum's Questions (and some answers) (1 comments)
09: Beinart's Response to Drum (3 comments)
09: Importing Patriotism (4 comments)
09: Bush and the Ten Commandments (5 comments)
10: Spiderman 3 (5 comments)
13: The Origin of Life (2 comments)
13: Drum on Income Rates for the Poor (1 comments)
13: Costumes of the Damned (2 comments)
14: Bad Sex Writing Award (8 comments)
14: Yes, Ashley...There is an Establishment Clause (17 comments)
14: Eagle Party Platform Wiki (4 comments)
14: The EU Military in Afghanistan (3 comments)
15: North Korea Threatens Japan (4 comments)
15: Flew Flies the Coop (8 comments)
17: We Just Don't Want Freedom From You (18 comments)
17: Flew and Atheism (Part II) (4 comments)
17: Us and Them (5 comments)
20: One Book (7 comments)
21: Derek Does Vegas (4 comments)
28: Vegas Does Derek (0 comments)
28: His not-so-Dark Materials (2 comments)
29: The Hand of Gawd (3 comments)
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