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After the Fall. Jerden Purmort's 20 modest suggestions to help survivors of the coming apocalypse create a better world.
Ahimsa (Non-violence). Douglas Milburn on how to avoid a bloodbath in the 21st century.
American Dementia. Jack Xamis on Dr. Strangelove then and the US government now.
American Diaspora: A Brief Guide to Fleeing. Doc Cuddy.
America the Disjunctive: Musings on Alienated Children, by Jason Twinhaft.
The American Empire: How Long, How Long? Joel Fluker on why it's gonna be a short, short ride.
The American House of Mirrors. Editor Doc Cuddy on the dangers of hubris.
American Tragedy: The Hubris of King George. What the ancient Greeks can tell us about the present mess.
Americtus: The Poison of America. Douglas Milburn on what we've lost and what we're about to lose.
Anderson Valley Advertiser. We find a great newspaper in Northern California.
Application for Membership in the American Empire. Another of our world scoops, freshly smuggled out of the Pentagon.
Are American Chickens Coming Home to Roost? Joel Fluker rants, bigtime.
"Are They Worth Saving?" Minutes of an overseers' meeting on board a distant UFO.
Bad Boys and Bullies. Doc Cuddy on the fatal flaw of the Bush gang.
The Balmorhea Prophecies.
B.B.T.T. The Magellan's Log slogan for Campaign 2004.
Best Bumper Sticker of 2005.
Big D and the Texas Syndrome. Doc Cuddy on the danger of denial, in Texas in 1980 and in America now.
Body Blow! America in Denial. Joel Fluker.
Bush's Folie à Deux. Doc Cuddy on Bush, one more time.
Campaign Center, Govern Far Right. Doc Cuddy on the hazards of the 2004 election. A clip 'n' save feature.
Caravaggio or Bust. Doc Cuddy struggles to track down two 400-year-old pictures and then tries to explain why.
Cats, Cowboys, and Capitalists. F.R. Hartnough. A robber baron speaks his mind.
Caveat Emperor. In-house prophet Cassandra lets loose with a few lines of verse re what's coming.
The Chad Report. Central listing of Nfubi Kwaadutu's essential dispatches from Chad.
Coup Corner. A page with links to all our pieces about the Bush Ascendancy.
The Dangers of Hope. Katherine Ozanic on 20th-century propaganda and the rise of American theocracy.
Dear Leader. Our proposed constitutional amendment to honor President Bush.
Demonocracy. Jack Xamis, Ph.D. A new word for the disease eating at the heart of America.
Dr. Strangelove Redux. Cassandra & the Bomb.
Do’s and Don’t’s. Understanding the new rules of freedom of expression in 21st-century America.
Double Indemnity. Douglas Milburn on the difficulties of being both an American and a Texan.
A Fairy Tale for Our Times. Doc Cuddy.
Feeding Frenzy. Elinor Hoefs on the bizarre and dangerous behavior of an unrestrained American government.
Fixing the Pax Americana. Doc Cuddy has a few suggestions for world peace under American hegemony.
The Four Tyrannies. Jerden Purmort. History in one page.
The Freedom of Utah 12. Herbert Lehnert. Questions of liberty in the American desert.
Genuflection Now! Our modest but patriotic homage to the leaders of the New American Empire.
George W. Bush: the First Four Years. 56 photos to help you remember.
Germans R Us. Temple Duciel. Germany and the lessons of humility.
Giggling While Rome Burns. Doc Cuddy on the rise of a sugar-coated, American version of fascism.
Going Off the Rails. America's tragicomic probably future.
GRRR! The Cumulative Rage of Neanderthal on the Verge of The Guns of September. Anther Varick Ticklaw. The dangers of forgetting history.
GWB's Top Secret 2004 To-do List.
Hate in Progress. Herbert Lehnert's political observations from a recent trip around the world.
The Healing of America. US and wilderness.
Here There Be Dinosaurs: Hubris and the American Future. Joel Fluker.
Home Sweet Home. Ora Shay, our token Republican, on the restoration of the George W. Bush boyhood home in Midland, Texas.
How Dysfunctional Is Your Country? A quickie checklist.
How Soon? Staff prophet Cassandra foresees major doom and gloom, but with a distant tiny light at the end of a long tunnel.
How the Terrorist Screen Center Is Going to Solve the Unemployment Problem. Need a job> Check out the TSC's new career path.
Howz Ur D.I.Q? Jerden Purmort's guide to intelligence in the new American age.
Imperial I.D. Card. Our own modest proposal in the War on Terrorism.
Imperialists! Tyrants! Dictators! Theocrats! U Rate 'Em. Jason Twinhaft.
Imperial Verities. Anna-Marie Quave. Rules for getting on successfully in the new world order.
Interregnum or Neoregnum? Anna-Marie Quave on American democracy, past, present, and future.
Is It Dictatorship Yet? Doc Cuddy's handy little checklist.
Is It Fascism Yet? A checklist to help you keep up with how things are going, Bush-wise.
Is Your Nation's Leader an Extra-terrestrial in Disguise? Maurice Fitznuggly.
It Really Is the Economy, Stupid. Katherine Ozanic on the reflections in the recently formed Lake George, Louisiana, and, well, compassion.
It's the Education, Stupid! Why 0.2951 is the Magic American Number, by Elinor Hoefs.
It's the Stupidity, Stupid. Douglas Milburn tries to understand voter behavior in the red states.
IYOOB. Our proposed new, patriotic calendar for dating world history.
Je n'accuse pas: Us and Scapegoats. Doc Cuddy tries to figure out whose fault IT is.
Karl Rove, Machiavelli, and Me. Doc Cuddy predicts Karl Rove's next move to get his boss out of all these messes.
The King of the Earth. Lulu Dilworth on the world's reversion to monarchy, under guess-who.
Lascaux Redux: The Origin of Sub-Species. Reppy Toppenish.
Leadership Then and Now. Washington Correspondent Joel Fluker puts the current batch of American leaders in historical perspective.
"The Little King, An American Fairy Tale," by Henry Bob Kulup. Read it and weep.
The Madness of King George: Folie à deux cents millions. Doc Cuddy does a psychiatric work-up on a certain prominent individual.
Megalomaniacs Anonymous. The tell-all confession of a recovering megalomaniac.
Midland's Own Boy George. Ora Shay. Words of praise for Dubya in time of war.
Mi Elección Es Su Elección. Doc Cuddy on fixing American miseducation.
Mocking America. Douglas Milburn crafts a reply to American tyranny.
Monsters, Inc. Lulu Dilworth. First Robespierre, then James Baker. Now what?
Montage de l'Empire 1 (with midi).
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Myopia and Megalomania. Lulu Dilworth offer short-term despair and long-term hope.
Naughty But Nice. Musings on good and evil by Reppy Duart.
The Next Big Thing: The Tragic Irony Behind the Present American Administration. Doc Cuddy.
The New Revised Ten Commandments. The Big Guy in the Sky speaks directly to Karl Rove.
Noir and American Truth: Lines After Reading Megan Abbott. Elinor Hoefs reaches for the dark heart of America.
The Office of Linguistic Purity. The administration's proposal to purify The American Language.
The Oilman's Burden. Rudyard Kipling updated for the new empire.
Oligarchy Now! Lulu Dilworth's checklist to get you in tune with the new times.
Oops! The Eternal Adolescence of the American Mind. Our editor again goes way out on a limb (what else is new?).
The Other F-word. A little test to help you be sure our leaders aren't drifting toward, well, you know, f - scism.
Ozymandias, the Sequel. Sic transit gloria Bush (with apologies to Shelley).
Palimpsest. Slideshow with midi (Corelli) 6:48 re America.
Peace Profits and War Wounds. Douglas Milburn. The real cost of war at home.
The People's Republic of America??? Doc Cuddy's worried about the Bill of Rights.
The Poison of Power. Joel Fluker on how we got into this mess, and how we may get out.
The Pooh Profits. Douglas Milburn. A memento mori for the 21st century.
Prig Presidents & Forgotten Revolutions. Robert Lonoke on 1789 and... us!
Pseudo-Texans and Other Fake Cowboys I Have Known. Doc Cuddy.
P.T.B.D. The Post-Traumatic Bush Disorder, our proposed modest addendum to the DSM catalog of mental problems.
Re-starting the Third Millennium: A Petition to Save the Planet Earth.
Revolution No. 2? Anna-Marie Quave tries to see a peaceful, positive way out of the present political mess.
Rove v. Rave. Pedro Bofecillos takes out after the anti-fun people presently running America (and the world).
Rubaiyat Redux. Edward FitzGerald's effective, if highly ambiguous, antidote to the madness of whatever era you happen to find yourself in.
Rule, America! Our modest suggestion for the new international American anthem. (Page with music.)
R U Vaginally Challenged? Doc Cuddy compares horny young Muslims and repressed American politicians.
Scoop! World's first photos of new U.S. Ambassador's residence in Chad.
Separated at Birth? Our solution, with visual proof, to the problem of the origins of the bizarre behavior of current American leaders.
Stirrings of Empire. Arthur Seymour Sullivan vs. George Walker Bush. With midi.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One. We try for the ultimate conspiracy theory.
Test Your Imperial Subjectship. Jerden Purmort. Are you going to be a good member of the New World Order?
The Texas Problem and What to Do About It. The staff of Magellan's Log comes up with the answers.
Thinkers Anonymous. Free membership card in our new organization for those who think too much (or at all).
Thinking the Unthinkable. Herman Kahn's "escalation ladder."
Today's Obscene Statistic. (See for yourself.)
To Flee or Not to Flee. Doc Cuddy on the coming American exodus.
Toxicity and Incompetence. Doc Cuddy on the source of poison in American society.
Tranquillity Base 2? Doc Cuddy on hope during Vietnam and the lack of hope during Iraq.
2028 and All That. A calendar celebrating the 25th anniversary of the American Empire.
The Two Questions of the Century. Sawyer Brown.
The Ugliest, Meanest, Most Vicious* Crossword Puzzle Ever Made About George W. Bush. *And Also the Truest.
The United States: R.I.P. If worse comes to worst, we have our front page ready for November 3, 2004.
The U.S. of E. An uplifting secret memo from the desk of Donald Rumsfeld.
Vietnam / Iraq: Quotations from Another War, 1961-1995.
Waiting for the Reichstag Fire. Doc Cuddy despairs of the present bunch in Washington and looks to the past for help.
The War on Errorism. Joel Fluker gives us a new word to desribe the domestic behavior of the present American government.
What, Me Wise??? The fatal flaw of capitalism (as now practiced).
What Price Empire? Lulu Dilworth on why now is like the summer of 1914.
What's Going on Here? Hope for the hopeless, thanks to Albrecht Altdorfer, with a little help from his friends at Magellan's Log.
What's Wrong with This Picture? An exercize to test your "imperial citizenship readiness."
What's Wrong with This Picture? Part II Jerden Purmort's second little graphic "citizenship-readiness" test.
Where Lies Hope? A clue in an unlikely place, the editorial page of The Times of London...
Why Bother? Jason Twinhaft on how to be a good citizen in triumphalist America.
Wrong Thinking and the Current American Mess. Doc Cuddy.

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