Rants and raves deconstructing our culture

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2000 Columns:

Todd Foltz
  • Uncle Todd's tips on moving friends (8/20/00)

    John Hedgecoth

  • Bouncers for the great GenX pension gig (7/2/00)

    Chris Jungle

  • A quick run-through (1/2/00)
  • Watch your back (1/9/00)
  • Cuban boy in America (1/16/00)
  • A Jungle moon (1/23/00)
  • My favorite president (1/30/00)
  • Party conversations (2/6/00)
  • 58 (2/13/00)
  • The little kingdom (2/20/00)
  • Non-social entities (2/27/00)
  • Gun control, part 1038 (3/5/00)
  • The good cheese (3/12/00)
  • Good teams can beat great teams (3/19/00)
  • The Graffiti House (3/26/00)
  • Recycled (4/2/00)
  • Charter (4/9/00)
  • No. 9, No. 9, No. 9 ... (4/16/00)
  • 13 virtues (4/23/00)
  • Post Vietnam (4/30/00)
  • Surfing for erotic content (5/7/00)
  • New Mexico is burning (5/14/00)
  • Normal China (5/28/00)
  • Rock and me (6/4/00)
  • Back to the top of the slide (6/11/00)
  • May I speak to Mr. or Mrs. Jungle? (6/18/00)
  • The closet isn't big enough (6/25/00)
  • Rights we take for granted (7/2/00)
  • Free Lee (7/9/00)
  • Cruisin' for a bruisin' (7/16/00)
  • So you want to be in the movies? (7/23/00)
  • Superbugs (7/30/00)
  • The old ball game (8/6/00)
  • Reform means to form again (8/13/00)
  • The lesser of two weevils (8/20/00)
  • Surviving without immunity (8/27/00)
  • Predictions and explanations (9/3/00)
  • Cell suck (9/10/00)
  • What the government can do (9/17/00)
  • The un-Olympics (9/24/00)
  • MI-486? (10/1/00)
  • Sell Fred (10/8/00)
  • All I see is you fighting (10/15/00)
  • Mixing the colors (10/22/00)
  • Macready (10/29/00)
  • Undecided (11/5/00)
  • Out of our hands (11/12/00)
  • Thanks 2000 (11/19/00)
  • Go long (11/26/00)
  • Jackpot! (12/3/00)
  • I quit (12/10/00)
  • Endgame (12/17/00)
  • A Christmas miracle (12/24/00)
  • 2001 (12/31/00)

    Michael Maiello

  • What made our millennium? (1/2/00)
  • Greenspan gets to keep his job (1/9/00)
  • We can't send that Cuban kid anywhere (1/16/00)
  • The rich become, well, more so (1/23/00)
  • Who bought your politician? (2/6/00)
  • Stop the show, I want to get off! (2/13/00)
  • When a nation is stumped (3/5/00)
  • Presidential grudge match (3/12/00)
  • What's fair to OPEC? (3/19/00)
  • Copyrights and music and the future (3/26/00)
  • Why business thought is dumb (4/2/00)
  • Real journalists vs. Leonardo DiCaprio (4/9/00)
  • Crashed (4/16/00)
  • Am I getting stupider or is it just me? (4/23/00)
  • A New Mexican for Veep? Not bloody likely (4/30/00)
  • Oh my God, no ABC (5/7/00)
  • Fitzgerald's worst novel is my favorite (5/14/00)
  • Why the Microsoft breakup won't affect your life (6/11/00)
  • A good time to kill the death penalty (6/18/00)
  • Why I wouldn't let my kid be a Boy Scout (7/2/00)
  • No lefties for President (7/9/00)
  • Freedom of religion means freedom from religion (7/16/00)
  • More dissembling about Viet Nam (7/23/00)
  • What's not to like about Dick Cheney? A lot (7/30/00)
  • Yay! People are suffering! (8/6/00)
  • What's wrong with Lieberman? (8/13/00)
  • In praise of employee theft (9/10/00)
  • Israel, George Orwell and Americans (10/22/00)
  • Swapped my vote (11/5/00)
  • Dismantle the Electoral College (11/12/00)
  • Hail to the thief (12/17/00)

  • Jon Worley
  • Post-millennial depression (1/2/00)
  • Age of expectation (1/9/00)
  • Raising the roof (1/16/00)
  • Creation cult (1/23/00)
  • Speed thrills (1/30/00)
  • What a boy wants (2/6/00)
  • Four on the floor (2/13/00)
  • Stick man (2/20/00)
  • Bobbin' and weavin' (2/27/00)
  • They're everywhere (3/5/00)
  • Oil slick (3/12/00)
  • And Iran, Iran so far away (3/19/00)
  • Prom on tap (3/26/00)
  • More about the guys with baseball bats (4/2/00)
  • Marking time (4/9/00)
  • Undergrowth (4/16/00)
  • Just the facts (4/23/00)
  • But you're so high (4/30/00)
  • The big itch (5/7/00)
  • An infinite number of search engines (5/14/00)
  • Mind the gap (5/28/00)
  • Trying to tame chaos (6/4/00)
  • Museum musings (6/11/00)
  • Ahmgunnuh Kikbutee (6/18/00)
  • Ride the lightning (6/25/00)
  • Out of Scouts (7/2/00)
  • Harry's field day (7/9/00)
  • The great American smokeout (7/16/00)
  • Too rich for my blood (7/23/00)
  • You are the Vice President of my life (7/30/00)
  • Party on, W (8/6/00)
  • Diary of a freeloader (8/13/00)
  • Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy (8/20/00)
  • Just a shot away (8/27/00)
  • The meaning of life, in three acts (9/3/00)
  • Ring around the rectal aperture (9/10/00)
  • If dreams were a dime a dozen, I'd be a chocolate malt (9/17/00)
  • I speed (9/24/00)
  • Don Slobo (10/1/00)
  • Al and Dubya save Social Security (10/8/00)
  • Dead wrong (10/15/00)
  • A noble quest (10/22/00)
  • Family outing (10/29/00)
  • That thing on Tuesday (11/5/00)
  • The people have spoken? (11/12/00)
  • Not so bad (11/19/00)
  • Cleared for landing (11/26/00)
  • Toy (12/3/00)
  • Last ups (12/10/00)
  • Selected readings (12/17/00)
  • The recession is coming! The recession is coming! (12/24/00)
  • There he goes again (12/31/00)

    Matt Worley

  • Calm down everybody, the money is still tender (1/2/00)
  • Really, where did the time go? (1/9/00)
  • Stomping the ground starting fires (1/16/00)
  • C'mon people now... (1/23/00)
  • Going negative (1/30/00)
  • Drunken teenage marauders (2/6/00)
  • Open wide (2/13/00)
  • Movies--Oh wait, I mean pictures (2/20/00)
  • A rash of pseudo-Reagans (2/27/00)
  • How much for Rocker's hard head? (3/5/00)
  • Meet the new Pong (3/12/00)
  • The blackout (3/19/00)
  • Springtime silliness (3/26/00)
  • Baseball sings its siren song (4/2/00)
  • Pump it up, y'all (4/9/00)
  • Perils of conformity (4/16/00)
  • Just shut up (4/23/00)
  • Rumors and innuendo (4/30/00)
  • Suing over the new mix tape (5/7/00)
  • More musical mayhem (5/14/00)
  • Memories (like the pictures on my wall) (5/28/00)
  • The rain (6/4/00)
  • The kids, the dead and the artists (6/11/00)
  • Summertime (and the living's easy) (6/18/00)
  • Where have all the good times gone? (6/25/00)
  • Easy theories for complicated times (7/2/00)
  • No bang for the buck (7/9/00)
  • When the toilet runneth over (7/16/00)
  • The story so far... (7/23/00)
  • Just another freak in the freak (7/30/00)
  • Super summer shakedown (8/13/00)
  • Vomiting your past into the toilet bowl of life: An overview (8/20/00)
  • I am a criminal (8/27/00)
  • Punching, ducking, weaving (9/3/00)
  • Mistakes were made (9/10/00)
  • Ties that bind (9/17/00)
  • The $27,000 question (9/24/00)
  • The oddest thing occurred to me (10/1/00)
  • Revolutionary times (10/8/00)
  • The comedown (10/15/00)
  • Us vs. Them (10/22/00)
  • What is free and what is paid for (10/29/00)
  • So what'cha want? (11/5/00)
  • Be careful what you wish for (11/12/00)
  • A matter of trivial importance (11/19/00)
  • Walking the electric doggies (11/26/00)
  • There's a Christmas tree in my office (12/3/00)
  • Oh God, here it comes again (12/10/00)
  • Hark, the herald angels sing (12/17/00)
  • The legacy of 2000 (12/24/00)
  • Looking forward to bigger Big Macs (12/31/00)

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