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Columns & Sections

Alaska Scapegoat Ranch
Deep Goat Summer
Impeachment, the Morning-After Pill, and the CIA
by Wilkins Micawber, prop.

Book Review
Funny Pages
Florence of Arabia
by Christopher Buckley
Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
by Aaron McGruder, Reginal Hudlin, and Kyle Baker
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
by the editors of the New Yorker
The Three Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Parenthood
by Christie Mellor
101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
edited by Michael J. Rosen
book reviews
by
David A. James

Calendar of Events

Cartoons
"Ralph Seekins 2006"
by Dan Darrow

Classifed Ads

Editorial
Sometimes, ya just gotta have fun

Index of the Absurd

Postal News
Obituaries
Mariko-san
by Liam Wescott

Ruby Rogers
by Margaret Rogers

Ray's View from the Lump

Video Dreamland
The Machinist
Stage Beauty
Aviator
Carolina
Team America
movie reviews
by
Thela Clayton

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special section featuring editorial cartoons from Jamie Smith's UAF cartooning class students

Commentary on Eielson Air Force Base, US Customs, sled dogs, adventure in the north, the Iraq war, and liberty.

Murky Waters
Guv Saves DC Press Corps from Death by Boredom
by Richard A. Fineberg

Governor Murkowski may have forgotten what his stance on oil drilling is, but the press didn't.

Music and Bribes
4th of July Parade in Ester
by
D. Helfferich

Despite the threat of rain, the Ester parade was its usual musical, enthusiastic self: fully outrageous.

The Power of Holy Scrapture
a reprint from The Giant Cabbage, by Ernesto "Che" Cavolo

Star Trek fans will recognize the flights of fancy enshrined in the fundamentalist view of Holy Scripture.

Pride Fest
by C.R. Stice

Scooping the News-Miner once again, the Republic reports on a parade in downtown Fairbanks and three-day festival celebrating Gay Pride Month.

Sliced and Stoned in Honolulu
or, How I Spent My Winter
part three, by Carla Helfferich

Off to Hawai'i to become a cyborg! The author discovers some serious soap and who is studly.

Uncelebrated Anniversaries in the Alaska Oil Patch
by
Richard A. Fineberg

The TAPS Settlement Agreement, the Galbraith Lake Oil Spill, and Endicott and the Doyon Driller: episodes in its history that Alyeska would rather you forget.

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