Rants and raves deconstructing our culture

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1999 Columns:
Tyler Jane Barley
  • Chick soccer (6/20/99)

    Barb Barrett

  • Yep, women can do that (7/11/99)

    Todd Foltz

  • A public service announcement from the LCN goth desk (4/25/99)
  • Ex-girlfriend wedding blues (5/16/99)

    John Hedgecoth

  • Keeping the faith (1/3/99)
  • The great government shutdown of '99 (1/10/99)
  • Slam-bam thank you ma'am (1/31/99)
  • Polesitters in the Iowa "500" (2/14/99)
  • Arms race (4/25/99)
  • Like fine wine (5/16/99)
  • No sale (5/23/99)
  • Right on (5/30/99)
  • Memos from the tall corn bureau (6/6/99)
  • Games of chance (6/13/99)

    Chris Jungle

  • Not thinking right (1/3/99)
  • How to host an Olympics and influence people (1/10/99)
  • Cop cars (1/17/99)
  • State of the jungle address (1/24/99)
  • Super jones (1/31/99)
  • A little less flavor (2/7/99)
  • Hey, this guy's more punk than me (2/14/99)
  • Wallowing in the excess (2/21/99)
  • We need him decertified, it's all you have to do (2/28/99)
  • Messing around (3/7/99)
  • The red flag (3/14/99)
  • Medicinal marijuana (3/21/99)
  • No return (3/28/99)
  • Paid not to be published (4/4/99)
  • Blowing some money (4/11/99)
  • Drafted (4/18/99)
  • Big fight (4/25/99)
  • Cinco de Mayo (5/2/99)
  • Gravity doesn't exist. The earth sucks (5/9/99)
  • Yes, to Obi-Wan you listen (5/16/99)
  • Sue who? Sue you! (5/23/99)
  • The roof is leaking (5/30/99)
  • The strangest war I've ever known (6/6/99)
  • Free free jazz (6/13/99)
  • To each their own (6/27/99)
  • The American dream (7/4/99)
  • The Hitchhikers Guide to Weddings (7/11/99)
  • The Sandman is dead (7/18/99)
  • The bird in the stove (7/25/99)
  • Journey's end (8/1/99)
  • Tax cut (8/8/99)
  • A Kansas creation (8/15/99)
  • Playing until closing (8/22/99)
  • Worth it (8/29/99)
  • Don't you worry, Mrs. Curry, about your raisin almondine (9/5/99)
  • The Zia symbol (9/19/99)
  • Full moon (9/26/99)
  • Fictional friends (10/3/99)
  • The brighter side of AIDS (10/10/99)
  • Just a little ways off the trail (10/17/99)
  • Best friends (10/24/99)
  • Captain New Mexico (10/31/99)
  • Swearing by SETI (11/7/99)
  • Teams on my plate (11/14/99)
  • CAMEL Night at the Sunshine (11/21/99)
  • Century report card (11/28/99)
  • Poets and protesters (12/5/99)
  • Scapegoat (12/12/99)
  • Age-old adage (12/19/99)
  • 11:59 (12/26/99)

    Michael Maiello

  • On everybody's mind (3/7/99)
  • Cal Thomas is a jerk (3/14/99)
  • A bunch of jokes about China (3/21/99)
  • Confessions of a childhood conservative (3/28/99)
  • Balkan haiku (4/4/99)
  • Bob Dole needs to shut up (4/11/99)
  • How I got famous (4/25/99)
  • The Matrix is full of violence, but so is the Odyssey (5/2/99)
  • Dustin Hoffman and the culture of celebrity whining (5/9/99)
  • PR wars (5/16/99)
  • J.D. Salinger's love letters up for auction (5/23/99)
  • Cuppies, anyone? (5/30/99)
  • From China, with love (6/6/99)
  • Our Balkan drive-by shooting (6/13/99)
  • Where are the radical free speech advocates? (6/20/99)
  • My life with guns (6/27/99)
  • Dr. Laura and the cult of the under-educated (7/4/99)
  • Take your kids to South Park (7/11/99)
  • History repeats itself, to a lesser degree (7/18/99)
  • Musings on the death of Kennedy (7/25/99)
  • How the Albuquerque Journal stopped the drug debate (8/1/99)
  • The draft: A dead idea reborn? (8/8/99)
  • How World War III almost happened (8/15/99)
  • Lightening up about teen sex (8/22/99)
  • Politics and narcotics (8/29/99)
  • Fear and loathing in Hurricane Floyd (9/26/99)
  • Hey look, Kenneth Starr is in the news! (10/24/99)
  • Martha Stewart: Proof that America is gilded and dumb (10/31/99)
  • Poverty's not do bad, stupidity is (11/7/99)
  • America co-opts the Berlin Wall (11/14/99)
  • Minimum wage laws (11/21/99)
  • Electrons vs. Ivy (11/28/99)
  • Going WTO global (12/5/99)
  • Beware the Orwellian Russian Borg (12/12/99)
  • Big labor strikes back (12/19/99)

    		• Jon Worley
  • Things I've learned this week (1/3/99)
  • That Olympic spirit (1/10/99)
  • It really is this simple (1/17/99)
  • A crack in the universe (1/24/99)
  • Amelie's amour (1/31/99)
  • A real slam dunk (2/7/99)
  • Stuff you might have missed (2/14/99)
  • My brush with a thumb (2/21/99)
  • Paying for the paycheck (2/28/99)
  • Pay 'em, just pay 'em (3/7/99)
  • Millions and millions (3/14/99)
  • Fat, drunk and stupid, or My night at the Oscars (3/21/99)
  • Cuba libre (3/28/99)
  • Nothing at all (4/4/99)
  • In Stereo (4/11/99)
  • Housinge (4/18/99)
  • Heathers, 10 years after (4/25/99)
  • It's okay (5/2/99)
  • All mothers in attendance will receive a free groin strain (5/9/99)
  • Why I go to the movies (5/16/99)
  • The only thing we have to fear... (5/23/99)
  • Had a house (5/30/99)
  • A grand yardstick (6/6/99)
  • Superpower blues (6/13/99)
  • Kill the king (6/20/99)
  • Return to not-quite Amish country (6/27/99)
  • Let freedom ring (7/4/99)
  • Bursting the bubble (7/11/99)
  • The loser (7/18/99)
  • m10k (7/25/99)
  • Dump the umps (8/1/99)
  • Bummin' (8/8/99)
  • Art thing (8/15/99)
  • Popping tops in aisle 14 (8/22/99)
  • Don't mess with science (8/29/99)
  • Modern inventions for better living (9/5/99)
  • There is a bloody war in East Timor (9/12/99)
  • Swiftly, but gently (9/19/99)
  • Spacing out (9/26/99)
  • Hey everybody, read books and drink milk! (10/3/99)
  • Hard wired (10/10/99)
  • Tilt-A-Whirl (10/17/99)
  • Parallel lines (10/24/99)
  • Your name here (10/31/99)
  • Mowing (11/7/99)
  • Inspiring the artist (11/14/99)
  • Everyday God (11/21/99)
  • On being right (11/28/99)
  • High on wine and wandering around a children's museum (12/5/99)
  • Kumquat love (12/12/99)
  • Kapital (12/19/99)
  • One more thing (12/26/99)

    Matt Worley

  • Chill out (1/3/99)
  • Really fine in 1999 (1/10/99)
  • #68 with boys (1/17/99)
  • Dry clothes (1/24/99)
  • 27 (1/31/99)
  • State shenanigans (2/7/99)
  • Dancing around potholes (2/14/99)
  • Stuck in the middle (with you) (2/21/99)
  • Vouchers smouchers (2/28/99)
  • Role models (3/7/99)
  • You may have already lost (3/14/99)
  • Our governor, the Big Dick (3/21/99)
  • Numbers--Or why I quite caring about math (3/28/99)
  • Sticks and stones (4/4/99)
  • Y2K--I wanna be compliant (4/11/99)
  • Nevermind (4/18/99)
  • The stump (not a new tree) (4/25/99)
  • Dave (or that one thing) (5/2/99)
  • I remain calm (5/9/99)
  • The first kiss (5/16/99)
  • Knee-jerk politics (5/23/99)
  • Blar Blar on Jar Jar (5/30/99)
  • Sliding into summer (6/6/99)
  • The Great Cat Experiment of '99 (6/13/99)
  • Killing gun control (6/27/99)
  • The art of being American, circa 1999 (7/4/99)
  • Dredging up the past, again (7/11/99)
  • Millennium madness? (7/18/99)
  • Georgie boy (7/25/99)
  • No satisfaction (8/1/99)
  • Family news and the weather (8/8/99)
  • Staw hats & politicos (8/15/99)
  • Drawing the line (8/22/99)
  • Rabbit punching (8/29/99)
  • untitled (9/5/99)
  • The times they are a-changin' (9/12/99)
  • Sad (9/26/99)
  • Election 2000: The phantom vote (10/3/99)
  • What have we learned? (10/10/99)
  • The addictions of legalization (10/17/99)
  • On vacation (10/24/99)
  • Bugging out credit (10/31/99)
  • Round 1, version 2.3 (11/7/99)
  • Three pitchers and a bottle of wine (11/14/99)
  • Killing co-workers as therapy (11/21/99)
  • Music & presidential politics: The top tens (11/28/99)
  • Click, click, buy (12/5/99)
  • Drummers, version 10.2 (12/12/99)
  • Millennial fears (12/19/99)
  • Think about the future (12/26/99)

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