Vol. 36 No. 7, December 2004
Index
- Free expression forever!(Editor's Note)
- Taking Science Seriously.
- Watergate Blowback.
- Dr. Feelscared.
- John Perry Barlow 2.0.
- The War on Fat.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Ad blockers: politicians vs. free speech.
- Queen of Persia: rock in the lap of the gods.
- Illegal music: the war on sampling.
- Induce vomiting: banning peer-to-peer networks.
- Liberal demographic: Clear Channel turns left.
- Quotes.
- Sources.
- British broadcast officials have banned an ad for Ford's Land Rover because it shows a woman firing a starting pistol into the air as a man gets into his automobile.
- Children in the Sacramento area don't play tag, dodge ball, Red Rover, or any game involving physical contact, including pushing each other on the swing during recess.
- Clarence Henry had four different Social Security numbers and a conviction for shoplifting.
- Elsewhere in Canada, 12 police officers, many wearing ski masks, burst into an Indian restaurant in Ottawa looking for drugs.
- For five years, SwordStaff.com ran one of the most popular booths at the Canadian Comic Book Expo, selling replica swords, maces, and hammers.
- Iran has banned shops from displaying women's lingerie in their windows.
- Privacy in the skies: CAPPS II: the sequel.
- Some students in Thailand have it even worse.
- The Junior Statesmen Foundation selected Benjamin Traslavina, the 16-year-old vice president of his high school's Honor Society and editor of the school paper, to attend the Republican National Convention.
- Balance sheet.
- Lost in transition: the costs of tighter borders.
- Wage wars.
- Easy target: anti-gun litigation.
- Politicizing the Web.
- Biased about bias: the hunt for ideology becomes an ideology.
- Martial vices: Zell Miller's un-American view of the armed forces.
- War of addition: the Pentagon's manpower crunch.
- Disney's war against the counterculture: why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.
- The reluctant planner: FCC Chairman Michael Powell on indecency, innovation, consolidation, and competition.
- Revolt of the Porcupines! The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?
- The first free state project: the brief, tumultuous history of Franklin.
- Love and memory and humanity: magician and novelist Penn Jillette on censorship, sock monkeys, and Bullshit!(Culture and Reviews)
- Hippie heaven: the liberating legacy of those "hideous, spotty little teenagers".
- Poor, sexy Berlin: the failure of urban planning.
- Indefensible internment: there was no good reason for the mass internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
- Severed heads: Arab literary fantasy and terrible reality.
- Dirty pictures.
- The monster in our backyard.