The Magellan's Log Coup
Corner
 Our reactions to the Bush-Baker Coup have pretty much run the gamut: From
simple incredulity to alarmed analysis to troubled fiction to deep satire.
If you're a Magellan's Log regular, you know we tend toward a
more playfully abstract take on the world (sort of the Kant-on-uppers approach?). But we
are also aware that today's brutal Realpolitik can lead directly to tomorrow's
pogrom.
We don't THINK America's headed there, but we see enough early- warning
signs, some coming from people with the best intentions, others from people whose
intentions may not be so good, that we have found ourselves continuing to react in print
to the shenanigans emanating from Crawford, Texas, and environs.
To help readers (and us) keep track of our on-going reactions, we've
created The Magellan's Log Coup Corner, which is nothing more
than a central, linked list of the various pieces we've done on the Bush Ascendancy.
Was it a coup? Well, for humor writers it's certainly better
source-material if it was a coup. For more serious writers, it's a lot meatier
subject-matter if it was a coup. We'll leave it to future political scholars to decide
whether it was a coup.
For now, here's what we've published, in chronological order (the newest
reports are at the bottom of the list), related to the coup-that-wasn't-or-was-it?
The communiqués are in chronological order, the oldest being at the top
of the list, the most recent added at the bottom.
The Florida Memorandum
In an open letter to the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, our own
editor outlines the plot of a really bad political thriller-- or is it in fact a rough
description of what actually happened in Florida,
Nov. 7, 2000?
Florida
Bumperstickers
The World's Biggest Tie
Doc Cuddy on the utter meaninglessness of the 2000
presidential election, and what the voters were really saying (does "Don't
disturb us in our pursuit of greed" sound about right?).
OLIGARCHY NOW!
Political analyst Lulu Dilworth says it's time to give up,
let go of all the strictures against greed, violence, and unprincipled ambition, and just
go with the exploitative flow. She's created a
check-list to help you on your way.
"The Little King,
An American Fairy Tale,"
by Henry Bob Kulup. With this little fable, Magellan's Log salutes the first
Republican administration of the 3rd millennium. Read it and weep.
8% and the Lotttery Syndrome
Political analyst Lulu Dilworth finds hope in the 2000 election mess in the form of one
large, sophisticated group of voters who saw right through pie-in-the-sky promises.
Study Aid
Attention Eighth Graders! Having trouble with your history / social studies homework? All
the help you need has arrived on the Internet in the form of The Magellan's Log
Complete & True Timeline of Critical Landmarks & Essential Dates in Human History,
Including Several Things Your Eighth Grade Teacher Never Mentioned.
Dubya and the Dow
We got out the old financial crystal ball and came with up seven likely notable events that will
have a major impact on the stock market during the reign of George II.
The Bush-Baker Survival Kit
 Six essential, reasonably priced (considering what they do) items for persons still suffering from twinges of
social conscience and/or social concern. Items may be ordered as a kit or separately.
Are You an Outhouse Republican?
Joel Fluker asks a series of probing questions
related to bathroom habits, church-going proclivities, and the like to help you remove
hypocrisy from your political life.
The World
According to Tom DeLay.
Quotes to live by.
Dubya Makes a New Friend
Going through his new desk, Dubya
finds a Post-it that Bill left behind...
Scoop!
First photos of the new U.S. amabassadortrix's residence in N'Djamena, Republic of
Chad.
The Chad Report
Guide to the continuing series of stories filed as hot news breaks almost daily on the
streets of N'Djamena, capital of the Republic of Chad.
Heavenly
Transmission.
Our staff mediums get word from the top re Dubya.
Monsters,
Inc.
Lulu Dilworth. First Robespierre, then James Baker. Now what?
Me and
Archie Bunker.
Sawyer Brown. Truth in voting.
Voting
Patterns.
Herbert Lehnert on the puzzling behavior of the American electorate.
Thamnos!
We're so exasperated by the coup that we had to resort to making up a new word. Which
didn't help as much as we hoped it would.
Prig
Presidents & Forgotten Revolutions
Now we're reduced to comparing Dubya and Robespierre??? Yep.
Mars II: The
Bill and George Show
What does it mean if Bill Gates hasn't read Kafka and George W. hasn't read anything?
Are
American Chickens Coming Home to Roost?
One Really Big,
Really Obscene Statistic
Physic
Breakthrough! Time-distortion Alert!
A startling exposé concerning how the Republicans are playing with the very fabric of the
universe.
Thanks a
Lot, Dubya!
Ora Shaw, token staff Republican, expresses her gratitude.
Being
There II: The Terrifying Sequel.
What do Peter Sellers, Chauncey Gardiner, and Dubya have in common?
Just Say No to
Tasteless Dubya Jokes!
Ora Shay. Our token Republican's second column.
Dubya Gets
His Wish.
Joel Fluker. Pres. Bush betows a medal on his teenage idol.
Attaboy, 43!
Ora Shay lauds Dubya's Crusade to remove Evil from the world.
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