Magellan's Log 21: Culture Counterculture Anticulture

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Home PC Ownership
in the US
Here are the latest stats on PC home ownership in America, by city. Guess who's No. 1. Hint: It's not San Francisco. And, nope, it's not Seattle.

Cut 'em Again,
Cut 'em Again,
Harder, Harder!
headsm.jpg (2448 bytes) When parents in America have a baby, and it's a boy, one of the first decisions they have to make at the hospital is: To cut or not to cut. (The infant at the left was being circumcised at the moment of the photograph.) Because of recent studies of the spread of AIDS in Africa, soon parents everywhere may be presented with that terrible choice. Here's what's about to happen.

Stammtisch
Homeboys
policesm.jpg (11809 bytes) In what he calls a "northside story," Don Pfingston has a few of his prejudices jolted when he experiences a racial/computer epihany at a fastfood place where he hangs out.

The World's Dirtiest Picture
Cassandra is at it again, all stops pulled, pedal to metal, accentuating the negative at 120 dB, speaking unpleasant truths with all the attractiveness of a million fingernails scraping on a million blackboards.

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Maurice Fitznuggly continues our Ten Words approach to short fiction (see Magellan's Log 20) in a tale with, um, a bit of a queer twist.

The Rebel of Orange County
How much longer are we going to continue with this fictional madness. This time, Edward Hothi checks in with a little story of repressed life Southern California.

The Malvern Hills
In her short story, Sylvia Sikeston looks in on a very high-tech UK lab where not everything is going quite according to plan.

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The editor gets out his red pencil and grades Magellan's Log 21.

Test Your Gullibility
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The New Mutants
by Leslie A. Fiedler

The End of Theology
Decades ago, the comic novelist Peter De Vries put the last nail in the lid of the coffin, so to speak, of Western theology. We are pleased to pass on to curious, of absent-minded, readers this reminder of De Vries's enduring insight .

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Beauty Break
Words, words, words! We get fed up too with all this Internet jabber, to which we certainly contribute. How about some beautiful pictures and some beautiful music? Seven pretty good hits of non-verbal relief...

Bibliotherapy,
Cinetherapy,
Cybertherapy
To laugh, or not to laugh? We've got some cheap, effective medicine here: lists of our favorite funny books and funny movies, stuff you probably won't find your HMO prescribing...

Big Bend
Our guide to one of the lesser-known national parks, in three words.

KulchurKwotient No. 787.
Brainteaser: Word Seeds.
ESL Fun: Workers.
Tasteless Jokes 21
Roll of the Dice. Click here to be whisked to a random page in the archives.

BONUS FUN!
We decided to lighten up a pretty serious issue with an extra puzzle: a specially constructed word fill-in. Easy, it's not. But fun, it is!

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Magellan's Log 22

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." --Oscar Wilde