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Some highlights:

TABLOID.NET. One of the best-written piece ever on this site, mostly because it quotes Ken Layne extensively. Too bad his site was a dot bomb casualty; last time I checked he was playing music instead of writing. May 99.

SARS. "Should the wide world roll away." The column on SARS remains relevant today considering the possibility of a worldwide pandemic. From the blog Stupidity and Hydrogen. March 2003.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN SANITY CLAUSE? The holiday blues. Best ad banner ever displayed on the site. December 1999.

YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. Imagine going back to your old home town and finding the ole family home being bulldozed. A semi-sappy story about a high school reunion. July 2001.

THE AUTO BIOGRAPHY. My life story via the automobiles I owned. Earl Swift of the Virginian-Pilot use the same vehicle in a different sense last summer; found out that he, too, once owned a VW Thing. May 99.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD. A column about doppelgangers. March 99.

MODERN LOVE. Love is a verb. Contains The Gigolo's Secret. January 99.

CLINTON SCANDALS. Got a lot of visits by way of search engines from this column on Kathleen Willey. December 98.

 

 

 

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