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Saturday, April 5, 2008 – Nil desperandum, Gazette fans. We may be a day late updating this site, and posting the new banner above, but The Olde Rag hit the streets here in the Piscataqua River watershed yesterday, on schedule. And, our subscribers’ papers are in the hands of the faithful U.S. Postal Service. They should be appear in most mailboxes Monday, if they haven’t yet arrived. As is our practice, we’re now making available our penultimate paper, Volume 252, No. 13, dated March 21. Just mash this link to download the thing, but be warned–it weighs 3.1 MB. In this issue we slag the …

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Friday, March 21, 2008 – We are proud to announce that we’ve once again defied the forces of entropy, and published another issue of this venerable newspaper. Even as we compose this post, one band of volunteers is preparing to mail copies – First Class! – to our hundreds of subscribers in nearly every state of the Union, while another group of stalwarts is fanning across town, placing thousands of copies in local business establishments, where they can be obtained for free by the ravenous reading public. But what about you, cyber-person? Have we forgotten you? We have not. We have made available to you …

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 – Yes, we know: the whole world is waiting for us to post something fresh here. Well, our dead-tree darling comes first, and we’ve got work to do between now and the deadline. So we’ll just offer this inside view of our operation, and ask for your patience.

Friday, March 14, 2008 – What are you looking here for? If you have the time to be surfing this site, you should be watching the Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan hearings instead.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 — We just got this message from Tom Jackson, at Joe Public Films: “Last weekend I had the honor and privilege to march with (and film) the Philadelphia chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War from Constitution Hall in downtown Philadelphia, to Valley Forge. The group wanted to draw attention to the upcoming Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan events coming up this weekend in and around DC. The events run from March 13-16, and include veterans from the Iraq conflict, as well as active duty soldiers.” “This is the first of a series of short videos for IVAW. This one focuses …

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Friday, March 7, 2008—Seriously. We’re giving away free pdfs of last fortnight’s paper. Why not? We have the technology. Just mash this link here, or click on that self-referential picture to the right, or click on the link at left, and go to our “Download a Semi-Recent Copy” page. Yes, we have the technology to give away this fortnight’s paper, too. But we have to consider the feelings of our faithful subscribers, now, don’t we?