May 2004

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Express Yourself

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Sluts for Jesus

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Your Papers, Please

  Brian Doherty

  ID demands DOA?

• Culture Club

  Charles Paul Freund

  Managing the sublime.

• Let the Love Flow

  Jacob Sullum

  Student drug testing.

• Net Nannies

  Julian Sanchez

  You're on caf� camera.

• Nookie Monster

  Jeff Taylor

  The unwritten rules of scandal.

• DJ Clampdown

  Jesse Walker

  Illicit turntablism.

• Capital Choices

  Lisa Snell

  Voucher progress.

• Fishy Business

  Michael De Alessi

  A bad case of crabs.

• Big Boxing

  Ted Balaker

  Banning bargains.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Net Savvy

  Julian Sanchez

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: State Squeeze

  Julian Sanchez

Quotes

• Quotes and Sources

Columns

• Traditional Prejudices

  Cathy Young

  The anti-Semitism of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

• Rant: Guests, Sí; Workers, No

  Brian Doherty

  Our most delicate thinkers have a problem with hard work.

• Gossip Wants to Be Free

  Matt Welch

  In defense of online scandal mongering.

Features

• "It's So Simple, It's Ridiculous"

  Brian Doherty

  Taxing times for 16th Amendment rebels.

• Backstage Passes

  Charles Paul Freund

  What it takes to run for president in the age of media intimacy.

• Five Reasons You Don't Owe Income Tax, Dammit!

  Brian Doherty

  The most heartfelt beliefs of the "tax honesty" movement.

• Tommy Chong's Bongs

  Greg Beato

  A stoner icon goes to jail.

• Xtreme Measures

  Greg Beato

  Washington's new crackdown on pornography.

Culture & Reviews

• Temporary Doves

  Matt Welch

  Why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War II?

• Anime Dreams

  Anders Sandberg

  The strange but familiar world of a Japanese TV cartoon.

• Not the Same Old Hickory

  Amy Sturgis

  The contested legacy of Andrew Jackson.

• The FBI Files

  Sara Rimensnyder

  Federally funded art takes on new meaning.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Public Offense

  Charles Paul Freund