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The Fix
Karen Croft
Marilyn Manson offends the Swiss, Judi Dench disses Harvey Weinstein, and will "M*A*S*H" be revisited? Plus: The hottest online hit -- "The Meatrix"!
MoveOn moves up
Michelle Goldberg
O'Reilly, DeLay and the GOP have declared war on it. But the online citizen movement grows richer and stronger by the day.
“The Encyclopedia of Surfing”
Heather Havrilesky
Matt Warshaw's comprehensive volume of surfing lore offers an obsessive -- and engrossing -- ode to serious beach culture.
Ask the pilot
Patrick Smith
Before a holiday on which more people fly than any other, the pilot remembers why he loves commercial airlines and solicits readers for Thanskgiving aviation memories.
Founding sinners
Laura Miller
While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Does Sean Penn want a Pulitzer as well as an Oscar? How would you like Pamela Anderson teaching in your kid's Sunday school? And how President Bush made the queen's gardener cry.
The Fix
Karen Croft
Who's sexier -- Chad or Benjamin? Who took topless shots of Jennifer and Cameron? What did Bush eat with Blair? Plus: Memories of JFK
Cheering Bush down
Graham Joyce
In contrast to the icy-cold pomp of the president's royal "state visit," an exuberant protest march draws 150,000, who march through London and bring a gold-painted Bush puppet to its knees.
The penguin is mightier than the sword
Jesse Jarnow
"Bloom County" cartoonist Berkeley Breathed talks about bringing Opus back to the nation's comics page to rip Garfield (and maybe George Bush) a new one.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
"We have become revenue addicts." An interview with Tulane president Scott Cowen, who says reforming college sports is a pipe dream worth chasing.
“No matter what, life is bigger than death”
Amy Reiter
Hot director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu talks about "21 Grams," his wrenching new film about three strangers linked by death, hope and destiny.
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
The MVP voters get it right at last: How valuable! Plus: The readers write about baseball and steroids.
The state of your unions
Salon Staff
Salon readers react to the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and share their dreams of walking down the aisle with their same-sex partners.
Notes from an activist: Welcome to Miami
Marisa Handler
On my first day in South Florida, here to conduct direct action protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference, obstacles loom, but the spirit surges.
“Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President”
Jessica Kowal
As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.
Soul survivor
Thomas Bartlett
Al Green has never matched the nuanced, whispered restraint of his early-'70s classics. But a long-awaited reunion album with producer Willie Mitchell reminds us of his greatness.
The hypocrite of Kabul
Ann Marlowe
Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad parachuted into Afghanistan and told the West exactly what it wanted to hear about that nation's women. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.
“Looney Tunes: Back in Action”
Charles Taylor
Bugs and Daffy invade the real Hollywood in this manic farce from director Joe Dante -- but the result is an exhausting mess.
“Her Husband”
Kamy Wicoff
Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Coulter says Bush didn't need an Iraq plan; O'Reilly blasts the liberal Reagan trashers at CBS; the Weekly Standard gloats at the impotent rage of the "urban and urbane, with-it, refined" Bush haters.
“The Singing Detective”
Charles Taylor
Fans of the classic Dennis Potter BBC miniseries: Stay far, far away from this pale, Americanized imitation.
Letters
Salon Staff
Spike was an abused sex toy -- and Gunn is no Oreo! Enraged "Buffy" and "Angel" fans fight back.
Furriners go nuts for gun-totin’ Yanks!
Laura Miller
As DBC Pierre's phony-baloney novel and Gus Van Sant's empty "Elephant" make clear, there's one sure way to snag a glittery European prize: Shoot up the high school.
Osama University?
Michelle Goldberg
Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they've enlisted Congress in their crusade.
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