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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers question Rebecca Traister's behind-the-scenes look at the March for Women's Lives. Also: Reps from Rock the Vote and WWE Smackdown Your Vote weigh in on young voters.
A brief history of the (over)involved father
Anthony Giardina
Do you have to go to every Little League game to be a good dad? An excerpt from "The Bastard on the Couch."
What was he thinking?
Larry Smith
"The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom" tries to answer the eternal question. A conversation with the collection's editor, Daniel Jones.
Brave new jobs
Claudia O'Keefe
My menial job at a world-famous Washington resort was a crash course in today's screw-the-worker zeitgeist -- and the charming, monied guests who thrust bloody bandages into my hands and made my dignified old co-worker perform like a seal.
Everyone is an editor
Sam Williams
In the wacky wiki world, a Web browser is all you need to start contributing. But when the goal is to create an encyclopedia, such democracy has some pitfalls.
I Like to Watch
Heather Havrilesky
Rocco faces a young foil, straight from central casting, and Jessica Simpson reveals the secrets to her feminine mystique. Plus: The depressing democracy of "American Idol."
The Fix
Salon Staff
Kmart extends relationship with Martha Stewart, and Scotland Yard reopens Diana case. Plus: Will Peter Jackson direct "The Lovely Bones"?
GOP “playa hatas”
Eric Boehlert
Rush Limbaugh and other angry conservatives mock John Kerry and the Dems for hanging with hip-hop stars. But they're dissing a key (and mostly white) bloc of youth voters.
Rock the vote? Maybe not
Anya Kamenetz
Glitzy voter-registration drives are wooing apathetic young voters with celebrities and flashy Web sites. But 18- to 24-year-olds may be too jaded and media-saturated to respond to anything except appeals from other young people -- real, live ones.
“13 Going on 30”
Stephanie Zacharek
Early on, "13 Going on 30" raises hopes that its message will be "It's great to be different." So why does it dash those hopes so cruelly?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Omarosa storms off set of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Quincy Jones organizes show for children in need, and Howard Stern is No. 1 in NYC.
A picture is no longer worth a thousand words
Farhad Manjoo
Which photograph of Lance Cpl. Ted Boudreaux and two boys in the desert is the real thing? No one knows for sure, in the age of Photoshop.
Nintendo rocks!
Verne Becker
And now for something completely different: The Minibosses, a band that plays nothing but tunes from old video games.
The Salon Interview: Neal Stephenson
Laura Miller
The author of "Cryptonomicon" and the "Baroque Cycle" talks about the brighter side of Puritanism, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and the literary world's grudge against science fiction.
Columbine, five years later
Peter Wilkinson
The kids who survived the worst school massacre in U.S. history have graduated, and some of them have even forgiven. But many of their parents have not.
School of Rock
Heather Havrilesky
It's been four long years since Chris Rock took the stage -- and we couldn't need his voice more than we do now.
“Kill Bill, Vol. 2”
Charles Taylor
Tarantino's talent can be dizzying, and Uma Thurman and David Carradine have great chemistry. But all it adds up to is that Q.T. seems to revere every movie he's ever seen.
Highways of horror
Saad George Hattar
Driven by rage at the U.S. occupation, and hoping to split the shaky allied coalition, tribesmen are taking hostages -- and now killing them.
Howard Stern unplugged
Eric Boehlert
With the government escalating its war on radio free speech, the shock jock's days are numbered.
First they came for Howard
Dan Savage
Why isn't everyone who cares about free speech rallying around the embattled radio personality?
Bush cannot be treated — he must be surgically removed
Arianna Huffington
The only way for Democrats to defeat the White House's fanatical culture of fear, greed and disunity is by asking the best, not the worst, of Americans.
“Mayor of the Sunset Strip”
Stephanie Zacharek
Meet L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, who helped launch the careers of Blondie, the Ramones, Van Halen, the Go-Go's and countless others.
John Kerry: The video game
Wagner James Au
In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
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