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Free Entertainment for a Looming Depression; the Boss. Relics of the King of the Jews: Dueling Foreskins. Infamous and to be Avoided. Origin of the Rings of Saturn.
Colorful Vagrants. The Eighth–and Perhaps Best–Crusade. Destitute
Peasants, Causing Trouble. Ergotism, St. Anthony’s Fire, the Dawn of
Consciousness, and the Protestant Reformation. Shapibo Cosmology.
Living in a Mosaic Museum. Hillary Clinton, Si o No? Micro-Nations Redux: The Maldives. 60 Foot High Crabs. East African Albinism and Nomenclature. Human Migration.
Steven King (Annoyingness Of). Micro-Nations and Their Sport. The Meaning
of Nationhood; Naming Rights to the U.S. Casinos; Indian Casinos; Pseudo
Casinos.
A Blue Period? Confirmation: a moral-religious Guantanamo. Kung Fu. Prison Beauty Pageants. Polynesian Tongue Wagging.
We Are Stardust, We Are Golden. Change Afoot. Chickens, Sport. Process (as Entertainment). Electionizing for All. Good vs. Evil, Love vs. Hate.
The Legend of El Cucuy; Possible Confusion with the Chupacabra. Horse Racing, Stall 12A, the Sexual Revolution. Ghost Towns of the Salton Sea. Date Shakes.
A different kind of crime, a kinder sort of criminal. Alt-Sainthood. Juan Law, William James, Theodore Dreiser. Otherification. Mark & Francis get deep - it’s kind of awkward for everyone.
Big News in High-Energy Physics. Samuel Johnson and Bishop Berkeley Behind
the Bar. Dark Matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma: Good or Evil? M-80, Meet Toad.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Hadrons.
