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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?

Friday, February 29, 2008 — It’s a good thing this year had an extra day in it. We don’t know how we’d have managed otherwise. Not that we have things under control here. That will never happen; we’ll always be outnumbered, we’ll always be outgunned. But at least we’ve gotten caught up in a few areas. We’ve resolved our e-mail problem, for one thing. Also, out of the 229 papers we’ve published every fortnight since May 1, 1999, we now have 228 properly filed in the morgue. (February 11, 2000 is the one that’s missing, in case some packrat out there has a copy they …

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Saturday, February 23, 2008 — Our latest issue, Volume 252, No. 11, dated February 22, hit the streets yesterday, thanks to our volunteer distribution crew. In their honor (and in lieu of pay) the Lithography Department has immortalized them with this image depicting them luxuriating in our lavishly appointed break room.

Friday, February 8 – It’s a red letter day here at the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™. We published our latest fortnightly screed, of course, but we do that every other Friday anyway. Here’s what makes today special. See that red arrow up there on the right end of the banner? It’s pointing to a line that says, “First Class U.S. Postage Paid.” We have upgraded our mailing from the dreadfully slow “Pre-Sorted Standard,” right up to top-of-the-line First Class. More on this momentous change later.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 — “Sen. Hillary Clinton charged on Sunday that Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has introduced racial tension into their contest for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination,” according to NPR’s All Things Considered. Meanwhile, here in the town where Hillary allegedly triumphed by getting teary-eyed, an unknown culture jammer had his way with Ron Paul, turning the straight-laced, diminutive white Congressman into a towering black drag queen — who played the character Rachel Tensions in a Hollywood movie. The national media appears to have performed a similar transmutation. According to them, it was Clinton’s show of alleged humanity that made the big difference …

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