Archives

To the best of my ability to keep up, this is a guide to Ishbadiddle's archives organized by topic: Books, Music, Movies, Fonts, Politics, and other Stuff. There's also a section relating to September 11th, containing both our readers' writings and other articles and essays. If you still can't find what you're looking for, try using the search tool over on the sidebar. Oh, and if you're looking for the archives for Underground Books, it's right here.

Books


Music


Movies


Fonts

A, B, C, D, E, and F.

Politics


Stuff

Alter our DNA or robots will take over, warns Hawking; he's right!
Bad Screenplays
Biodegradable Coffins
Blog on Blog: 1, 2, 3.
Bloomberg: Our New Boyfriend
J.S. Boggs and the Georgers
Britney Conspiracy; Britney Defaced
Bridget Jones' revenge Bud Ads
CNN, Fox News -- "You're All Worthless and Weak!"
Computer stupidities
Dents: A New York Story
Dial-A-Rejection
Do They Dream of Electric Mice?
Drugs in the News
Earthquake or Tsuanmi? Your pick!
Friends vs. Seinfeld
Forget about hiding from Big Brother. Worry about hiding from your mom.
Geek Hierarchy
George Harrison, RIP
Gluttons vs. Figure Skaters
The Great Boston Molasses Disaster
Hooray for Bollywood!
How to get fired: play with your boss's favorite ball
How to get lynched at your local bookstore
How to stick out in Coney Island
Join the {fray}
Klein bottles: lousy mousetraps
The Last of the Hitlers
Land of the Lost Redux (and follow-up)
Love for Sale
Merge-Matic Books: here and here
MTA Service Changes
Personal Devotional Assistant
Personality Tests: superego, id, and ego.
R. Crumb meets Philip K. Dick meets the Holy Spirit.
Radical Snowboards
Recent urban legends debunked.
R.J. Reynolds Finds that Laws of U.S., Physics, Merely "Guidelines"
Jeri Ryan Fan Club Goes Bust
Segway Cops! Star Wars Shadow Puppetry
Stupid Criminals
A Tale Told In Words With Just One Sound In Them
That Obscure Object of Desire
They Can't Silence Laughing Sal!
Things that make me happy: Random curiosities.
Trading Card Madness
Tron Turns 10100
What Zagat Won't Print
Winner of the Good Grammar in Signage Award
Yours is a very bad hotel: for consultants and those who love them.

September 11th, 2001

What We Wrote

Note: you may have to do a bit of scrolling

Matt Alexander: are we at war?
David Ball: a Muslim's perspective, Steven Emerson is a complete freak
Alex Bilsky: political questions
David Block: Phil Ochs and the China Syndrome
Patrick Castillo: finding refuge
Paul Cunningham: dispatch from Istanbul; our anthrax expert
Marcus de Leon: Time to wake up & smell the meadow muffins, kids; a Presidential reply
Mike Everett-Lane: I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day; lessons from the war on drugs; stuff about the war at home; a metaphor; "the things I could have told him"; letter to the President and a reply to same; Ted Rall hits a new low
Andrew Krauss: a memorial vision
Jessie Fleischer-Black: the view from Bellevue
Matt Fleischer-Black: my cocoon of shock
Xeni Fragakis: letters from Iowa City, 1 and 2.
Chris Griffith: Letter from Minneapolis
Laura Hodder: letter from San Francisco
Trip Kirkpatrick: political questions; finding WTC images
Colin Lingle: normal service delays, not so normal any more
Liz Lynn: under a literal pall
Aaron McDonald: you won't see these pictures in a BMW ad
Andrea Moed: an airborne hate-seeded event
Chris Molanphy: my back porch coated in ash; pictures of Ground Zero
Emily Owens: kitsch and feeling
Jason Palmer: letter from Japan; letter to Kofi Annan
Ranya: this is what Beirut looked like
Naunihal Singh: A rant concerning the "war against terror"

Civil Liberties Watch


9/11 In Others' Words

9/11 and the Homeless
Alexander Cockburn
"All is Lost," Now on NPR
Another Obit that Hits Home: Rich Lee
"Arabs have no one to blame but themselves."
Bad Propaganda
The Bush Doctrine
The Bert - bin Laden connection
A bin Laden joke that's actually funny.
Blowback?
Blowing the Shofar at Ground Zero; Saying Mass in NOLA
Bombing Without Thinking
Brutality Wrapped in Peanut Butter
Bush: It's All Grecian To Me!
A Call for Calm from Congress
The CIA, Insider Trading, and other Conspiracy Theories
The Cliff Clavins are dying, but Cheers bar owner wants "his" money back.
Danny Pearl Remembered
Darn those Civil Liberties! Can't We Just Torture Them?
A Debt Repaid
A Disturbance in the Force?
Edward Said
Even our Allies hate the Jews
Giuliani Exploits 9/11 for the GOP.
How to find an American soldier
I'm sorry sir, but this is a "No Davening" flight
Inside Afghanistan: An Afghan Aid Worker
Inside Al-Qaeda
It's the Northern Alliance Show!
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson
John Paul Lederach
A Leftist Punk Reconsiders
Letter from an Afghani-American
Letter from the GOP
Literature at the Khyber Pass
Lost, and Lost Again: Richard Penny
Mariane Pearl pleads for her husband's life.
Mark Twain: The War Prayer
Marketing Patriotism: 1, 2, 3.
Michael Moore on Airport Security
Minoru Yamasaki, WTC Archtiect
My military experience in Afghanistan
Noam Chomsky
Nuclear Safety
Osama bin Laden, in his own words: 1 and 2
Peggy Noonan on Life (and terrorism)
POWs?
The Power of Negative Thinking
Ridiculous 9/11 Articles in the NYT: Terror Comes Out of the Closet; Trucks of the Taliban
The Roots of Muslim Rage
Running a shelter at ground zero
Salman Rushdie: Yes, this is about Islam
A School for Fanatics
Strange Victory
Strategic Analysis: Our Military and Political Goals at Odds
Stupid Bigots, Stupider Bigots
The Taliban vs. George Harrison
Taliban Withdrawal: Rout? Strategy? Strategic Rout?
"They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder"
The Tower on fire, crumbling. Card 16.
U2's Superbowl show: dissing the dead.
"The unmentionable odour of death / Offends the September night."
Wagging the Dog, 40 years ago
The war against terror - swiss style
The War and the Simpsons
The War in Cartoons
"We are not Osama bin Laden. Don't, ever, lump us together."
What do Al-Qaeda, Gnutella, and WTO-protestors have in common?
"When Americans Attack", only on Fox (and other Ironic War Slogans).
Whining Won't Win the War
Why We Can't Wiretap the Internet
WTC Stories
WWII wasn't pretty, either.
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