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1. Left Behind is evil<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 17, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Pretrib Porno<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 18, 2003; pp. 1-3<\/p>\n

3. The denial of death<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 20, 2003; pp. 4-5<\/p>\n

4. Meet Buck Williams<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 20, 2003; pg. 6<\/p>\n

5. Meet the GIRAT<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 21, 2003; pp. 6-7<\/p>\n

6. Weird Science<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 22, 2003; pp. 6-8<\/p>\n

7. A Thief in the Night<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 22, 2003<\/p>\n

8. Peace in the Middle East<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 23, 2003; pp. 8-9<\/p>\n

9. The Literal Donkey\u2019s Penis<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 24, 2003; pp. 10-15<\/p>\n

10. The Babel Fish<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 25, 2003; pp. 10-15<\/p>\n

11. Recycling Sydney Watson<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 27, 2003<\/p>\n

12. Why this matters<\/a><\/strong> | Oct. 27, 2003<\/p>\n

13. Do Panic<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 2, 2003; pp. 15-19<\/p>\n

14. Tony the Flight Attendant<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 3, 2003; pg. 18<\/p>\n

15. The Hypothetical Bus<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 3, 2003<\/p>\n

16. There\u2019s a New World Coming<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 5, 2003<\/p>\n

17. Not creepy enough<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 7, 2003; Chapter 1<\/p>\n

18. The Naked Truth<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 8, 2003; pp. 21-25<\/p>\n

19. Jerry\u2019s book tour<\/a><\/strong> | Nov. 11, 2003<\/p>\n

20. Welcome to the Hellmouth<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 8, 2003<\/p>\n

21. The Lex Luthor factor<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 9, 2003; pp. 23-24<\/p>\n

22. Concorde calling<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 10, 2003; pp. 25-27<\/p>\n

23. Hard to get a cab<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 20, 2003; pp. 28-30<\/p>\n

24. A fool\u2019s hope<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 22, 2003; pp. 29-30<\/p>\n

25. This ain\u2019t science fiction<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 26, 2003; pg. 30<\/p>\n

26. My favorite character so far<\/a><\/strong> | Dec. 30, 2003; pp. 22-37<\/p>\n

27. Email MacGuyver<\/a><\/strong> | Jan. 16, 2004; pp. 30-32<\/p>\n

28. \u201960 Minutes\u2019 falls asleep in church<\/a><\/strong> | Feb. 12, 2004<\/p>\n

29. Rayford \u2018Mary Sue\u2019 Steele<\/a><\/strong> | Mar. 23, 2004<\/p>\n

30. Flirting with disaster<\/a><\/strong> | Mar. 23, 2004; pp. 32-34<\/p>\n

31. Good took my copilot<\/a><\/strong> | Mar. 24, 2004; pp. 34-35<\/p>\n

32. The evil of banality<\/a><\/strong> | Mar. 25, 2004; pp. 35-39<\/p>\n

33. Buck deplanes<\/a><\/strong> | Mar. 31, 2004; pp. 41-43<\/p>\n

34. Scream morality<\/a><\/strong> | April 6, 2004; pp. 43-45<\/p>\n

35. Carl Olson sits in<\/a><\/strong> | April 12, 2004<\/p>\n

36. Inhumanly pro-family<\/a><\/strong> | April 20, 2004; pg. 45<\/p>\n

37. Yesterday\u2019s news<\/a><\/strong> | April 20, 2004; pg. 45<\/p>\n

38. Go to Hell<\/a><\/strong> | May 5, 2004; pp. 45-46<\/p>\n

39. Pagan Babies<\/a><\/strong> | May 19, 2004; pp. 46-48<\/p>\n

40. Global Weekly I<\/a><\/strong> | May 20, 2004<\/p>\n

41. Global Weekly II<\/a><\/strong> | May 21, 2004<\/p>\n

42. Shackled<\/a><\/strong> | May 21, 2004; pg. 48<\/p>\n

43. Sorrow Floats<\/a><\/strong> | June 15, 2004; pp. 48-49<\/p>\n

44. There goes the neighborhood<\/a><\/strong> | July 26, 2004<\/p>\n

45. Thank Heaven for little girls<\/a><\/strong> | July 28, 2004; pp. 49-54<\/p>\n

46. Scream 2 morality<\/a><\/strong> | July 29, 2004; pp. 50-53<\/p>\n

47. Keep an eye on the Jews<\/a><\/strong> | Aug. 3, 2004; pp. 54-57<\/p>\n

48. The Final Frontier<\/a><\/strong> | Aug. 5, 2004; pp. 57-58<\/p>\n

49. Dr. Dives is bored<\/a><\/strong> | Aug. 6, 2004; pg. 59<\/p>\n

50. 21 days<\/a><\/strong> | Aug. 9, 2004<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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