January 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: The Myth of Media Monopoly

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• "...Or Don't You Care?"

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Snow Job

  Brandon Turner

  Anti-cokehead discrimination

• Barbarians Inside the Gates

  Charles Paul Freund

  'Essential' literature goes nobrow

• Fund Transfer Protocol

  Julian Sanchez

  States eye Internet sales

• Seed Case

  Jacob Sullum

  Hemp food ban

• Shots in the Dark

  Jacob Sullum

  Gun control's shaky foundation

• WiFoes

  Julian Sanchez

  Radio signals make waves

• Chipped Beef

  Jeff Taylor

  Outsourcers against outsourcing

• The Blurry Blue Line

  Jesse Walker

  Cops and crooks in cahoots

• The No-Kobe Zone

  Matt Welch

  Competitive negligence

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Julian Sanchez

  Raw Deal

Data

• Data

  Julian Sanchez

  Rose-Colored Calculators

Quotes

• Quotes and Sources

Columns

• Kobe's Rights

  Cathy Young

  Rape, justice, and double standards

• Rant: The Impossible Stream

  Jeff Taylor

  The war on DVD users

• If You Build It, They Will Leave

  Matt Welch

  Sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again.

Features

• Domination Fantasies

  Ben Compaine

  Does Rupert Murdoch control the media? Does anyone?

• Cybergreen

  Mike Godwin

  Bruce Sterling on media, design, fiction, and the future

• Just Say No Again

  Renee Moilanen

  The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education

Culture & Reviews

• Uncritical Masses

  Brendan O'Neill

  Was the public too stupid to oppose the war in Iraq?

• Found Objects

  Jeremy Lott

  What archaeologists can gain from markets, or lose by ignoring them

• Self Delusions

  Julian Sanchez

  Does morality require a soul?

• Postal Pranksters

  Jesse Walker

  Counterfeit stamps as art

• Welcome Back, Napster

  Nick Gillespie

  All power to the audience

Artifacts

• Artifact: Webcam in the Round

  Charles Paul Freund