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Academic absurdity (Ephemerides, 5/9/02)
Accounting profession
litigation (Enron Mythos, 2/20/02; 3/14/02)
negligence and fraud (Ephemerides, 1/26/02; 2/20/02; Enron Mythos, 6/29/02; 7/20/02; Hunt Watch, 7/11/02)
separation of audit and non-audit work (Enron Mythos, 1/18/02; 2/5/02; 3/5/02)
Adoption (Hunt Watch, 8/8/02)
Affirmative Action, Grutter and Gratz cases (Ephemerides, 6/24/03)
AIDS in communist China (Ephemerides, 3/9/02)
Airport security
effectiveness (Ephemerides, 10/1/01; 10/21/01, 3/26/02)
profiling (Ephemerides, 1/11/02; 3/6/02)
Secret Service-American Airlines dispute (Ephemerides, 1/5/02)
Alterman, Eric, objections to Jewish immigration to the West Bank (Ephemerides, 5/28/02)
American Civil War, alternative outcomes (Et Cetera, 5/27/02)
American decline, left-wing theories of (Ephemerides, 7/17/02)
The American Spectator (Ephemerides, 10/25/01)
AmeriCorps, failures of (Hunt Watch, 5/30/02)
Animal Liberation Front (Ephemerides, 2/26/02)
Animals, man's relationship to (Et Cetera, 1/9/02)
Antisemitism
Christian doctrine and (In hac lacrimarum valle, 2/9/02; 2/18/02)
European news media (Ephemerides, 11/1/01)
exploitation by European Left (Ephemerides, 4/10/02)
revival in Europe (Ephemerides, 2/9/02; 5/7/02)
Ants, wars among (Quark Watch, 4/15/02)
Arthur Andersen LLP
Enron document shredding (Enron Mythos, 1/15/02)
indictment of (Enron Mythos, 3/11/02; 3/14/02; 4/3/02)
trial and conviction of (Enron Mythos, 6/17/02)
Ashcroft, John, action against terrorism (Hunt Watch, 6/6/02)
Asimov, Isaac
on daylight saving time and the metric system (Et Cetera, 4/7/02)
al-Qaeda, "inspiration" of (Quark Watch, 11/11/01)
Australia
brush fires (December 2001) (Ephemerides, 12/27/01; 12/30/01; 1/2/02)
support of Israel in Geneva (Ephemerides, 12/5/01)

Balanced budgets, change in conservative position on (Hunt Watch, 9/26/02)
Baseball, labor-management disputes (Hunt Watch, 8/22/02)
Bellesiles, Michael (Ephemerides, 10/5/01; 1/28/02)
Berkeley, University of California at, pro-Palestinian course offering (Ephemerides, 5/9/02)
Biblical prophecy (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/11/02)
Biden, Sen. Joseph (Ephemerides, 10/24/01)
Birthdays (Et Cetera, 11/21/01)
Blog parlor games
Belief System Selector (Et Cetera, 3/24/02)
Ethical Philosophy Selector (Et Cetera, 2/23/02)
Which Calvin Are You? (Et Cetera, 3/24/02)
Which D&D Character Are You? (Et Cetera, 4/7/02)
Which Giant Death Robot Are You? (Et Cetera, 3/24/02)
British Broadcasting Company
bias (Ephemerides, 11/1/01)
political correctness (Ephemerides, 11/2/01)
Buhle, Paul (Et Cetera, 6/10/02)
Bush, George W.
generalship (Ephemerides, 12/12/01; 12/23/01)
leftist attacks on (Ephemerides, 3/10/02)
Palestinian peace proposals (Ephemerides, 6/24/02; 6/26/02)
"wobbling" (Ephemerides, 3/15/02)

California, energy policies of (Ephemerides, 6/6/02)
Campaign finance reform (Enron Mythos, 2/12/02; Hunt Watch, 7/18/02)
Carter, Jimmy, winner of 2002 Fisk Award (Ephemerides, 1/5/03)
Cash balance pension plans (Ephemerides, 5/23/02)
Challenger disaster (Quark Watch, 1/29/02)
Charles I, King of England (Et Cetera, 1/30/02)
Chechen terrorism (Ephemerides, 10/29/02)
Cheney, Richard, and Halliburton "accounting scandal" (Enron Mythos, 7/20/02)
Chicago in 2010 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01)
China, Peoples Republic of, and AIDS (Ephemerides, 3/9/02)
Christianity
modern challenges to (In hac lacrimarum valle, 5/5/02)
"normal times" for (In hac lacrimarum valle, 7/4/02)
Christmas, secularist attitude toward (In hac lacrimarum valle, 12/25/02)
Church and State, separation of (Ephemerides, 6/26/02)
Civil liberties, impact of war on (Ephemerides, 8/24/02)
Clerical celibacy (In hac lacrimarum valle, 6/8/02)
Clinton, William J.
anti-terrorist strategy (Ephemerides, 10/3/01)
character (Ephemerides, 11/8/01)
Korean policy (Ephemerides, 10/17/02)
Middle Eastern policy (Ephemerides, 4/6/02)
repetition of Hunt libels (Ephemerides, 12/12/01)
self-pity (Ephemerides, 4/1/02)
views concerning War on Terror (Ephemerides, 11/8/01; 11/9/01; 11/10/01)
Cloning
Left-Right alliance against (In hac lacrimarum valle, 2/25/02; Ephemerides, 3/6/02)
libertarian enthusiasm for (Ephemerides, 1/25/02)
moral considerations (Ephemerides, 3/6/02)
relationship of debate to religion (Ephemerides, 4/27/02)
"usefulness" of (Ephemerides, 11/28/01)
Commonwealth, English (1649-1660) (Et Cetera, 1/30/02)
Conagerie (2002 Westercon) (Quark Watch, 7/8/02)
Congress, predictions for the 2003 session (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Congressional elections (2002) (Ephemerides, 11/6/02; Hunt Watch, 11/7/02)
ConJosé (2002 World Science Fiction Convention)
internal discord (Quark Watch, 3/16/02)
report on (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Conservatism, realignments within (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Constantinople, Fall of (May 29, 1453) (Et Cetera, 5/29/02)
Cooperative Threat Reduction Act ("Nunn-Lugar") (Hunt Watch, 7/25/02)
Corporate inversions (Ephemerides, 8/5/02)
Council on American-Islamic Relations
American Airlines-Secret Service dispute (Ephemerides, 1/5/02)
phony polling (Ephemerides, 4/16/02)
Council on National Policy, alleged center of right-wing conspiracy (Ephemerides, 12/17/02)
Counter-Enlightenment (Ephemerides, 11/4/01)

Daschle, Sen. Tom
defense policy (Ephemerides, 2/28/02)
economic proposals (Ephemerides, 1/5/02)
obstructionism (Ephemerides, 3/19/02)
on "politicization" of the war (Ephemerides, 9/25/02)
on possible fraud in South Dakota Senate race (2002) (Ephemerides, 11/20/02)
universal Internet access proposals (Ephemerides, 1/11/02)
Däubler-Gmelin, Herta ("das Hassefrau") (Ephemerides, 9/19/02; 9/20/02; 9/22/02)
Dawkins, Richard (In hac lacrimarum valle, 5/5/02)
Daylight Saving Time (Et Cetera, 4/7/02)
Deloitte & Touche LLP (Enron Mythos, 3/21/02)
Democratic National Committee, left-wing extremists and (Ephemerides, 6/30/02)
Democratic Party
economic policies of (Ephemerides, 10/7/02)
future direction of (Ephemerides, 11/6/02; Hunt Watch, 11/14/02)
"professionalism" of (Ephemerides, 10/12/02; 10/30/02)
Democrats.com (Ephemerides, 6/30/02)
Lunar exploration, denunciation of (Quark Watch, 9/23/02)
Deregulation and Enron's collapse (Enron Mythos, 1/18/02; 2/7/02)
Dershowitz, Alan, exculpation of Osama bin-Laden (Ephemerides, 12/17/01)
Diamond Mind Baseball (Et Cetera, 11/30/01)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Et Cetera, 4/9/02; 4/19/02)
The Dish (Quark Watch, 10/8/01)
Disney, Walt (Et Cetera, 12/5/01)
Dispensationalism (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/11/02)
Ditto 14/Fanhistoricon (Quark Watch, 10/14/01)
"Diversity" in the work place (Ephemerides, 10/21/02)
Dollar coins (Ephemerides, 4/5/02)

Earth, ultimate fate of (Quark Watch, 1/5/02)
Earth Liberation Front (Ephemerides, 2/26/02)
Economic recovery
predictions for 2003 (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
policies to promote (Hunt Watch, 9/26/02; Ephemerides, 10/7/02; 10/12/02)
Eco-terrorism (Ephemerides, 2/26/02)
Edgar, Bob (general secretary, National Council of Churches) and Saddam Hussein (Ephemerides, 1/5/03)
Effinger, George Alec (1947-2002) (Quark Watch, 5/4/02)
Election fraud, South Dakota Senate election (2002) (Ephemerides, 11/20/02)
Employee stock ownership (Enron Mythos, 1/11/02; 2/2/02)
Energy policy
Alaskan oil drilling (Ephemerides, 4/7/02)
California, failure of state regulation (Ephemerides, 6/6/02)
consultation with businessmen (Enron Mythos, 3/28/02)
Enron Corporation
appointment of independent pension fiduciary (Enron Mythos, 4/20/02)
campaign contributions (Enron Mythos, 2/12/02)
deregulation and (Enron Mythos, 1/18/02; 2/7/02)
document shredding (Enron Mythos, 1/15/02)
executive compensation (Enron Mythos, 1/24/02; 2/7/02)
and Paul Krugman (Enron Mythos, 1/22/02; Ephemerides, 1/26/02;)
pension plan (Enron Mythos, 1/24/02; 2/27/02)
reasons for collapse (Enron Mythos, 2/8/02)
Environmental policy
Alaskan oil drilling (Ephemerides, 4/7/02)
Estate tax, repeal of (Ephemerides, 5/28/02)
Europe and Ameica (Ephemerides, 9/11/02)
European Union
anti-Americanism (Ephemerides, 1/4/02; 3/28/02; 9/6/02; 10/24/02)
defects (Ephemerides, 1/4/02)
future development (Ephemerides, 4/10/02)
metric system, enforcement of (Ephemerides, 2/19/02)
Moslem immigration (Ephemerides, 5/6/02)
Evolution and intelligent design (In hac lacrimarum valle, 5/1/02)
Executive compensation, tax treatment of (Enron Mythos, 1/24/02; 2/7/02)

Federal Election Commission, campaign finance regulations (Hunt Watch, 7/18/02)
Fictionwise (Quark Watch, 11/7/01)
Fisk Award to Jimmy Carter (Ephemerides, 1/5/03)
Florida election contest (2000)
discrimination against Republican voters (Ephemerides, 11/12/01)
left-wing hysteria (Ephemerides, 3/20/02)
media "recounts" (Ephemerides, 11/11/01; 11/12/01; 11/15/01; 11/21/01)
"moving on" (Ephemerides, 3/12/02)
Food taboos (Et Cetera, 1/9/02)
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (Ephemerides, 8/24/02)
Fortuyn, Pim, assassination of (Ephemerides, 5/6/02)
401(k) plans
"blackout" periods (Enron Mythos, 2/2/02)
diversification of assets (Enron Mythos, 1/11/02; 3/26/02)
legislative proposals (Enron Mythos, 1/11/02; 2/2/02)
France, Presidential election (2002) (Ephemerides, 4/23/02)
French intellectuals, deployment of against Taliban (Et Cetera, 3/18/02)

Geneva Convention on Human Rights
condemnation of Israel (Ephemerides, 12/5/01; 12/7/01)
Germany, Parliamentary election (2002) (Ephemerides, 9/22/02)
Giuliani, Rudolph (Ephemerides, 12/23/01)
Goldberg, Jonah, attacks on libertarianism (Ephemerides, 12/19/01)
Gore, Al, prospects as a 2004 Presidential candidate (Hunt Watch, 6/13/02; Ephemerides, 11/19/02; 12/15/02)
Gun control
Arming America controversy (Ephemerides, 10/5/01; 1/28/02)
political impact (Ephemerides, 3/21/02)

Halliburton Co., allege 1998 accounting scandal (Enron Mythos, 7/20/02)
Hamas (Ephemerides, 12/2/01)
Harry Potter, personality test based on (Et Cetera, 12/14/02)
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (movie) (Quark Watch, 12/22/01)
Health care
drug price controls (Ephemerides, 2/16/02)
universal health care proposals (Hunt Watch,9/19/02)
Hispanic-Americans, impact on U.S. politics (Ephemerides, 3/12/02; 11/19/02)
Homeland Security, Department of (Hunt Watch, 11/21/02; 12/5/02)
Homosexuality and same-sex "marriage" (Ephemerides, 6/23/03)
Hugo Awards
Awards Ceremony (2002) (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Best Novel (2002), nominees (Quark Watch, 6/17/02)
Best Novella recommendation for 2002 (Quark Watch, 1/27/02)
Best Short Story (2002) nominees (Quark Watch, 7/20/02)
Fiction winners (2002) (Quark Watch, 9/2/02)
Rowling, J.K., and (Quark Watch, 10/3/01)
Hunt, Al
on adoption policies (Hunt Watch, 8/8/02)
on baseball's labor problems (Hunt Watch, 8/22/02)
on Democratic strategy (Hunt Watch, 11/14/02)
on Department of Homeland Security (Hunt Watch, 11/21/02; 12/5/02)
on economic recovery (Hunt Watch, 9/26/02)
on Al Gore's "political comeback" (Hunt Watch, 6/13/02)
on government support of volunteerism (Hunt Watch, 5/30/02)
on health care in the U.S. (Hunt Watch,9/19/02)
on investigation of pre-9/11 intelligence failures (Hunt Watch, 5/23/02)
on John Ashcroft's anti-terrorist efforts (Hunt Watch, 6/6/02)
libels against Republicans (Ephemerides, 11/29/01; 12/12/01)
on moderate Republicans (Hunt Watch, 12/5/02)
on New Jersey Senate election (2002) (Hunt Watch, 10/3/02)
on President Bush's corporate reform proposals (Hunt Watch, 7/11/02)
on Russian weapons of mass destruction (Hunt Watch, 7/25/02)
on Saddam Hussein (Hunt Watch, 6/20/02; 8/1/02; 9/5/02)
on South Dakota Senate and House elections (2002) (Hunt Watch, 10/10/02)
on tax relief (Hunt Watch, 9/26/02)
on 2002 election results (Hunt Watch, 11/7/02)
on voter turnout (Hunt Watch, 8/29/02)
on the War on Terror (Hunt Watch 9/12/02)
on welfare reform (Hunt Watch, 6/27/02)

Illinois gubernatorial election (2002) (Ephemerides, 3/24/02)
Insider trading (Ephemerides, 7/6/02)
Intelligent design and evolution (In hac lacrimarum valle, 5/1/02)
Interacton (2005 World Science Fiction Convention) (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Internal Revenue Service, relationship to the President (Ephemerides, 5/14/02)
International Criminal Court (Ephemerides, 7/9/02; 7/10/02)
Internet
anonymity (Ephemerides, 10/4/01)
customer service (Et Cetera, 1/19/02)
universal access (Ephemerides, 1/11/02)
Iraq
deposition of Saddam Hussein (before the fact) (Hunt Watch, 6/20/02; 8/1/02; 9/5/02; Ephemerides, 8/11/02, 8/17/02; 9/16/02; 11/5/02)
predictions for 2003 (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Irish Republican Army (Ephemerides, 4/7/02)
Islam
American attitudes toward (Ephemerides, 10/28/02)
immigration of Moslems to Europe (Ephemerides, 5/6/02)
martyrdom, concept of (In hac lacrimarum valle, 3/12/02)
modernization of (In hac lacrimarum valle, 7/30/02)
origins and early history (In hac lacrimarum valle, 12/8/01)
secular Islam (Ephemerides, 2/3/02)
Israel
alleged communist role in founding (Et Cetera, 6/10/02)
condemnation by Geneva Convention on Human Rights (Ephemerides, 12/5/01; 12/7/01)
"defiance" of U.S. (Ephemerides, 4/9/02)
role in War on Terror (Ephemerides, 12/2/01)

Kansas City in 2006 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01; 11/27/01; 4/2/02)
Kass, Dr. Leon, attacks on (Ephemerides, 1/25/02)
Kidby, Paul (Quark Watch, 1/27/02)
Korea, North
food shortages (Ephemerides, 3/2/02)
nuclear weapons program (Ephemerides, 10/17/02)
predictions for 2003 (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Korea, South, and appeasement of North Korea (Ephemerides, 12/21/02)
Krugman, Paul
conspiracy theories (Ephemerides, 1/26/02; 3/29/02; 12/17/02)
Enron consultancy  (Enron Mythos, 1/22/02; Ephemerides, 1/26/02)
misunderstanding of corporate tax expatriation (Ephemerides, 5/14/02)
misunderstanding of income tax "rate reduction credit" (Enron Mythos, 2/23/02; 2/26/02)
Kwanzaa (Ephemerides, 12/26/01)

bin-Laden, Osama
admission of guilt (Ephemerides, 12/17/01)
alleged audiotape by (Ephemerides, 11/20/02)
alleged eleemosynary activities (Ephemerides, 12/26/02)
generalship (Ephemerides, 11/2/01)
The Last Hero (by Terry Pratchett) (Quark Watch, 1/27/02)
Liberalism, decay of (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Libertarianism
abandonment of principles (Ephemerides, 12/19/01)
and cloning (Ephemerides, 1/25/02)
and the Republican Party (Ephemerides, 3/21/02)
and sexual mores (Ephemerides, 5/25/02)
The Lord of the Rings (movie) (Quark Watch, 12/22/01)
Los Angeles in 2006 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01; 11/27/01)
Loscon 28 (Quark Watch, 11/27/01)
Lott, Senator Trent, inadequacy as Senate Majority Leader (Ephemerides, 12/11/02; 12/13/02)
Lunar exploration, left-wing opposition to (Quark Watch, 9/23/02)

Margaret of Windsor, Princess (Et Cetera, 2/10/02)
Mars, global warming on (Quark Watch, 12/7/01)
Media bias, impact on 2004 election (Ephemerides, 2/16/04)
Mencken, H. L., on the 1948 Presidential election (Ephemerides, 12/11/02)
Metric Martyrs (Ephemerides, 2/19/02)
Minnesota, U.S. Senate election in (2002) (Ephemerides, 10/30/02)
Moslem immigration to Europe (Ephemerides, 5/6/02)
Mount Rainier (Et Cetera, 5/22/02)
Movies, adaptation of novels to (Quark Watch, 12/22/01)
Murray, Alan, arguments for estate tax (Ephemerides, 5/28/02)
Murray, Senator Patty (D-Wash) and Osama bin-Laden's "good works" (Ephemerides, 12/26/02; 1/5/03)

NASFiC ("North American Science Fiction Convention) bidding (Quark Watch, 7/8/02; 9/13/02)
National Council of Churches, sympathy for Saddam Hussein (Ephemerides, 1/5/03)
New Jersey, U.S. Senate election in (2002) (Ephemerides, 9/30/02; Hunt Watch, 10/10/02)
New York City Fire Department, ice sculpture tribute (Et Cetera, 3/9/02)
Nicaragua, national elections (2001) (Ephemerides, 11/5/01)
911, future urban legend about (Et Cetera, 11/30/01)
9th Circuit Court of Appeals (Ephemerides, 6/26/02)
Nixon, Richard M. on the USSR as a "strong society" (Ephemerides, 3/21/02)
Norwescon 25 (Quark Watch, 4/2/02)
Nuclear proliferation (Hunt Watch, 7/25/02)

Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of, as Shakespeare claimant (Querulous Notes, 3/16/02; 3/23/02; 4/27/02; 10/10/02)

Palestinian Authority
Christians, treatment of (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/3/02)
Church of the Nativity, occupation of (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/3/02)
claims to statehood (Ephemerides, 5/13/02)
failure to condemn terrorism (Ephemerides, 4/13/02)
hostility toward U.S. (Ephemerides, 10/2/01; 4/7/02)
objectives (Ephemerides, 3/31/02)
offers of cabinet positions to terrorist organizations (Ephemerides, 6/2/02)
President Bush's demands for reform (Ephemerides, 6/24/02; 6/26/02)
Patten, Chris
on European antisemitism (Ephemerides, 5/7/02)
on the International Criminal Court (Ephemerides, 7/9/02)
Pearl, Daniel (1963-2002) (Ephemerides, 2/22/02)
Pelz, Bruce (1936-2002) (Quark Watch, 5/11/02)
Pension plans, cash balance benefit formulas (Ephemerides, 5/23/02)
Political strife, parallels between U.S. and Roman Republic (Ephemerides, 11/29/02)
Prophecy, modern imitations of (In hac lacrimarum valle, 7/4/02)
Pickering, Judge Charles (Ephemerides, 3/8/02)
Pledge of Allegiance (Ephemerides, 6/26/02)
Pornography (Ephemerides, 12/3/01)
Pratchett, Terry (Quark Watch, 1/27/02)
Predictions for 2003 (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
Presidential Election (2004)
Gore withdrawal (Ephemerides, 12/15/02)
predictions (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)

al-Qaeda
"inspired" by Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy (Quark Watch, 11/11/01)
philosophical resemblances to Hamas (Ephemerides, 12/2/01)

Racism
discrimination against black Republicans (Ephemerides, 11/12/01)
liberal encouragement of black resentment (Ephemerides, 3/8/02)
linguistic manipulation (Ephemerides, 11/13/01)
Reagan, Ronald W., becomes the oldest President (Ephemerides, 10/11/01)
Recession (2001-02)
duration of (Ephemerides, 11/27/01)
economic stimulus proposals (Ephemerides, 12/4/01; 1/5/02)
Regulation of the economy
California energy market (Ephemerides, 6/6/02)
Enron's collapse as an argument for (Enron Mythos, 1/18/02; 2/7/02)
President Bush's reform proposals (Enron Mythos, 7/2/02; Hunt Watch, 7/11/02)
Stock market's reaction to corporate "reform" legislation (Enron Mythos, 7/9/02; Ephemerides, 7/25/02)
"Replacement theology" (In hac lacrimarum valle, 2/18/02)
Republican Party
future political strategy (Ephemerides, 11/13/02)
impact of Hispanic voters on (Ephemerides, 3/12/02; 11/19/02)
moderate Republicanism (Hunt Watch, 12/5/02)
social issues and (Ephemerides, 3/21/02)
2002 election results (Ephemerides, 11/6/02)
Roman Catholic Church
predictions concerning succession to John Paul II (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
sex scandals in America (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/22/02; 6/9/02; Ephemerides, 6/9/02)
Roman Republic, political parallels to United States (Ephemerides, 11/29/02)
Rowling, J. K. and Hugo Award (Quark Watch, 10/3/01)
Rumsfeld, Donald, on poverty in the Third World (Ephemerides, 11/16/02)
Russia
and Chechen terrorism (Ephemerides, 10/29/02)
destruction of Cold War weaponry (Hunt Watch, 7/25/02)

Same-sex "marriage" (Ephemerides, 6/23/03)
Saudi-controlled Arabia, future of (Ephemerides, 8/8/02)
Scandals, manufacture of (Enron Mythos, 1/15/02; 3/21/02; 4/3/02)
Scholarly negligence and fraud
Michael Bellesiles (Ephemerides, 10/5/01; 1/28/02)
Paul Buhle (Et Cetera, 6/10/02)
Schröder, Gerhard, anti-Americanism of (Ephemerides, 9/20/02; 9/22/02)
Schultz, Ellen (Enron Mythos, 1/24/02; 2/27/02)
Science Fiction conventions
ConJosé (2002 World Science Fiction Convention) (Quark Watch, 3/16/02)
Ditto 14/Fanhistoricon (Quark Watch, 10/14/01)
Loscon 28 (Quark Watch, 11/27/01)
Norwescon 25 (Quark Watch, 4/2/02)
Windycon XXVIII (Quark Watch, 11/11/01)
Scowcroft, Brent, views on depostion of Saddam Hussein (Ephemerides, 8/17/02)
Second Coming of Christ (Parousia) (In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/11/02)
Secret ballot, evanescence of (Ephemerides, 11/6/01; 1/31/02)
Secret Service dispute with American Airlines over airport security (Ephemerides, 1/5/02)
Sexual mores in contemporary America (Ephemerides, 5/25/02)
Shakespeare, William
authorship "controversy" (Querulous Notes, 3/16/02; 3/23/02; 4/27/02)
"Fair Youth" sonnets (Querulous Notes, 6/17/02)
relationship of life and work (Querulous Notes, 3/11/02)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Querulous Notes, 10/10/02)
Slavery, abolition in the United States (Et Cetera, 5/27/02)
Sobran, Joseph, Shakespearean Authorship theories of (Querulous Notes, 4/27/02)
Soccer, American lack of enthusiasm for (Et Cetera, 6/21/02)
Social Security
payroll tax, arguments for reducing (Ephemerides, 12/4/01)
Reform Commission (Ephemerides, 12/10/01)
South Dakota
possible fraud in Senate election (2002) (Ephemerides, 11/20/02)
U.S. Senate and House elections in (2002) (Hunt Watch, 10/3/02)
Space progam
private initiatives (Quark Watch, 11/19/01)
timidity (Quark Watch, 1/29/02)
Split-dollar life insurance (Enron Mythos, 2/7/02)
Sports and the American character (Et Cetera, 6/21/02)
Stock market, explanations of bear market (Ephemerides, 6/4/02; 10/12/02)
Stock options, accounting treatment of (Enron Mythos, 7/15/02)
Stritmatter, Roger
Latinity of (Querulous Notes, 8/17/02)
Shakespearean authorship theories of (Querulous Notes, 3/16/02; 3/23/02)

Taliban (Ephemerides, 11/22/01)
French intellectuals deployed against (Et Cetera, 3/18/02)
parallels to Cromwellian Commonwealth (Et Cetera, 1/30/02)
"resilience of" (Ephemerides, 10/28/01; 11/13/01)
Tariffs, steel
adverse impact on war effort (Ephemerides, 3/5/02)
detrimental economic and political effects (Ephemerides, 5/31/02)
Taxation
Democratic proposals (Ephemerides, 1/5/02)
distribution of federal income tax burden (Ephemerides, 4/15/02)
and economic recovery (Hunt Watch, 9/26/02)
impact on economy (Ephemerides, 11/27/01)
reincorporation of U.S. companies abroad ("corporate inversion") (Ephemerides, 8/5/02)
Terrorism
ecological (Ephemerides, 2/26/02)
FBI investigation of (Hunt Watch, 6/6/02)
Palestinian Authority's support for (Ephemerides, 4/13/02)
role of religious belief (Ephemerides, 12/15/01; 1/21/02; In hac lacrimarum valle, 4/11/02)
security measures (Ephemerides, 4/7/02)
warnings of 9/11 attacks (Ephemerides, 5/16/02)
Thanksgiving cartoon (Et Cetera, 11/22/01)
Thoburn, Steve (the "Metric Martyr") (Ephemerides, 2/19/02)
Thurmond, Strom (Et Cetera, 12/5/01; Ephemerides, 12/11/02)
Time Magazine
Enron document shredding (Enron Mythos, 1/15/02)
"Person of the Year" Award (2001) (Ephemerides, 12/23/01)
Torcon 3 (2003 World Science Fiction Convention) (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
TransOrbital Corporation (private lunar exploration) (Quark Watch, 9/23/02)

United States of America, ultimate fate of (Et Cetera, 5/29/02; Ephemerides, 11/29/02)

"Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" (Ephemerides, 3/29/02; 4/1/02)
Volunteerism, American (Hunt Watch, 5/30/02)

Wallerstein, Immanuel, theory of American decline (Ephemerides, 7/17/02)
War on Terror
"alternate histories" (Ephemerides, 11/29/01; 12/12/01)
alliances (Ephemerides, 3/28/02)
American strengths and weaknesses in waging (Ephemerides, 12/31/01; 3/28/02; 7/17/02)
anti-Muslim sentiment (Ephemerides, 11/5/01; 11/12/01)
anti-war protests (Ephemerides, 11/7/01)
Australian brush fires (Ephemerides, 12/27/01; 12/30/01; 1/2/02)
campus dissent (Ephemerides, 11/3/01)
and civil liberties (Ephemerides, 8/24/02)
civilian casualties (Ephemerides, 2/11/02)
Clinton Administration's role (Ephemerides, 10/3/01)
containment as a strategy (Ephemerides, 8/11/02)
"cowardice" of war proponents (Ephemerides, 8/31/02)
Democratic reactions (Ephemerides, 10/24/01; 2/28/02)
detention of enemy combatants, the al-Muhajir/Padilla case (Ephemerides, 6/12/02)
Iraq, prospective invasion of (Hunt Watch, 6/20/02; 8/1/02; 9/5/02; Ephemerides, 8/11/02; 8/17/02; 9/16/02)
Israel, role of (Ephemerides, 12/2/01; 4/9/02)
military situation after first year (Hunt Watch,9/19/02)
military tribunals (Ephemerides, 11/15/01; 11/18/01)
modernization of Islam as a strategy for winning (In hac lacrimarum valle, 7/30/02)
Palestinian reactions (Ephemerides, 10/2/01; 4/7/02)
Pentagon attack (Ephemerides, 10/6/01)
police non-cooperation with investigations (Oregon) (Ephemerides, 11/21/01; 12/1/01)
"politicization" of (Ephemerides, 9/25/02)
popular reactions
mockery of Osama bin-Laden (Pinellas County, Fla.) (Ephemerides, 10/23/01; 10/24/01)
pledge of allegiance controversy (Madison County, Wis.) (Ephemerides, 10/9/01; 10/10/01; 10/17/01)
predictions for 2003 (Ephemerides, 12/31/02)
religious opposition to invasion of Iraq (Ephemerides, 11/5/02)
"root causes" (Ephemerides, 10/12/01; 11/8/01; 11/9/01; 11/10/01)
"sacrifice", need for (Hunt Watch, 5/30/02)
strategy (Ephemerides, 3/28/02; 3/31/02)
Roman precedent (67 B.C.) (Ephemerides, 12/1/01)
"wobbling" (Ephemerides, 3/15/02)
Taliban (Ephemerides, 11/22/01)
"resilience of" (Ephemerides, 10/28/01; 11/13/01)
tourism, impact on (Et Cetera, 5/22/02)
warnings of 9/11 attacks (Ephemerides, 5/16/02; Hunt Watch, 5/23/02)
West Bank campaign (Ephemerides, 4/13/02)
Washington's Birthday (Et Cetera, 2/22/02)
"Watch Unto Prayer" (loony Christian site) (Ephemerides, 12/17/02)
Watergate scandal, consequences of (Ephemerides, 6/17/02)
West Bank, Jewish settlements (Ephemerides, 5/28/02)
West Point Doctrine (preemption of terrorist attacks) (Hunt Watch, 6/20/02; 8/1/02)
Westercon (Quark Watch, 7/8/02)
Whitehouse, Mary (anti-pornography campaigner), death of (Ephemerides, 12/3/01)
Williams, Dr. Rowan (Archbishop of Canterbury), objections to invasion of Iraq (Ephemerides, 11/5/02)
Windycon XXVIII (Quark Watch, 11/11/01)
World Science Fiction Convention bidding (Quark Watch, 7/8/02)
Chicago in 2010 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01; 9/13/02)
Columbus in 2007 (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Melbourne in 2010 (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Kansas City in 2006 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01; 11/27/01; 4/2/02; 9/13/02)
Los Angeles in 2006 (Quark Watch, 11/11/01; 11/27/01; 9/13/02)
Nippon in 2007 (Quark Watch, 9/13/02)
Worldcom accounting scandal (Enron Mythos, 6/29/02)

Yale-Harvard Game (2001) (Et Cetera, 11/17/01)
Yale University, trustee election (2002) (Ephemerides, 4/21/02; 6/21/02)

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