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How to read a newspaper Between the lines BBC political editor Andrew Marr has spent a lifetime reading newspapers. In an extract from his...

The Dunce telling tales out of school http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/index.html

The Big Mac as spy novel Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer State of the Union By Brad Thor Atria, 335 pp, 25 dollars You can...

Surfing the web's tsunami Wrong way Dubya and the big Dick Good piece in Slate and a great picture of the always lovely and diploma...

Tom Tomorrow rules this modern world Down with the small cute dog!

'Twas Gimli and the slimy orcs Did battle and grumble in the way All flimsy were the Hornburg doors And in the end, they gave. - Lord of...

Roots of modern world twine through a gripping adventure Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The Confusion: Volume Two of the Baroque ...

Scumwads of a feather feather their nest together Not that anyone should be surprised these two Great Men of Destiny (tm) were formally i...

We hope one day you'll join us A communique from the high command of the People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction. Viva la PRKA! ht...

sometimes headlines just suggest themselves, no matter what you do to try to drive them out of your head.... IOC pulls gold medal from...

Bob Dylan to publish first vol of his memoires Agence France-PresseNew York, August 26 The first volume of US folk singer Bob Dylan'...

Our spiritual leader of the moment: Pete Seeger http://http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Typ...

Since this newspaper doesn't archive stuff and this editorial will disappear in a day or two, I will post the whole thing in the interes...

Breakfast porn....3 egg moose farm omlette, steak, bacon, wild turkey, hot sauce, plums,iced coffee, green tea, parmaesan, tomato and fresh ...

Why as a matter of fact the back of my neck is feelin' dirty and gritty We've broken a record here in Tokyo this summer for long...

Yet another reason to see the Asylum Street Spankers in concert Things you never thought you'd ever see #237: Las Lindas Spanker so...

Adachi's novel isn't socks Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The Island of Bicycle Dancers By Jiro Adachi St. Martin...

As I have mentioned in the past, I work for The Man - a 'newspaper' with a quasi-facist editorial policy and that is often racist, a...

Face it he deserves a medal, not prison time. Hurrah for Matsuno-san! Peko-chan thief gets 1 1/2 yrs for 'vicious crime' Yom...

Numbers say Bush warm bread A more informed look at the polling numbers here