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• A Millennium Report Card 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 31, 1999
  
• Is David Letterman Y2K-Compliant? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 29, 1999
  
• "Millennium" Anagrams 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 28, 1999
  
• Clichés of 1999 in Review 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 27, 1999
  
• Why "Paycheck Protection" Is Bunk 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 22, 1999
  
• Matchbook-Cover Issues Primer 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 21, 1999
  
• The L.A. Times Blasts ... the L.A. Times! 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 21, 1999
  
• Chatterbox Debates Ballot Box 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 20, 1999
  
• George W. Smirkology: An Update 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 16, 1999
  
• The Etymology of "Y2K" 
  Ted Rose Dec. 15, 1999
  
• Why Global Warming Is Good for Gore 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 15, 1999
  
• First Annual Joseph Heller Memorial Cliché Contest 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 14, 1999
  
• Present at the Creation 
  Jodie T. Allen Dec. 13, 1999
  
• In Praise of Clinton's Brain 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 9, 1999
  
• George W.'s Smirk: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 8, 1999
  
• Who's Afraid of an Internet Tax? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 7, 1999
  
• This Just In From the Red Planet Express 
  Gregg Easterbrook Dec. 7, 1999
  
• When Will the Seagram Building Fall Down? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 6, 1999
  
• Eleven-Twelfths of 1999 In Review 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 2, 1999
  
• Anti-"World Trade Organization" Anagrams 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 1999
  
• Who Cares Whether Hillary (Maybe) Smoked Dope? 
  Timothy Noah Dec. 1, 1999
  
• Toy Story vs. the Internet 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 29, 1999
  
• Did Disney Censor The Insider? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 24, 1999
  
• Guns Don't Kill People; Olympic Athletes Do 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 23, 1999
  
• Why Reform Britain's House of Lords? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 22, 1999
  
• Hillsdale Jujitsu 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 17, 1999
  
• Murphy's Law: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 17, 1999
  
• Human Rights Becomes a Second-Day Story 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 16, 1999
  
• My Orthodontist Immortalized by Mona Simpson! 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 15, 1999
  
• L.A. Times, Part III: Mark Willes Speaks 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 12, 1999
  
• What, No FDR Building? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 11, 1999
  
• 1999 in Review: A Reader Request 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 10, 1999
  
• L.A. Times, Part II: Calling Willes' Bluff 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 9, 1999
  
• George W., Folklorist 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 4, 1999
  
• The L.A. Times' Baffling Economics 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 3, 1999
  
• Al Gore, Leader of the Pack 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 1, 1999
  
• Did Gore Hatch Horton? 
  Timothy Noah Nov. 1, 1999
  
• The Etymology of "Bumfuzzled" 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 29, 1999
  
• Patrick V (a Playlet) 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 28, 1999
  
• Buckley and Quotas at Yale 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 27, 1999
  
• Reporting Tips From the Big Boys 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 26, 1999
  
• The Journal as a Leading Indicator 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 25, 1999
  
• Bill Bennett and the Cultural-Decline Decline 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 21, 1999
  
• Round Two: ABC News 2, Metabolife 0 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 19, 1999
  
• Harry Potter and the Iowa Caucuses 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 14, 1999
  
• Round One: ABC News 1, Metabolife 0 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 13, 1999
  
• Metabolife's Lawyer Assures C'box He Won't Sue 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 12, 1999
  
• Chatterbox Takes a Leak 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 12, 1999
  
• Metabolife: Read This! No, Wait, Don't Read This! 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 11, 1999
  
• Nixon: I Am Not an Anti-Semite 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 7, 1999
  
• "Dutch, by Edmund Morris": Some Anagrams 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 5, 1999
  
• Saving Out-of-Town News 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 5, 1999
  
• Why Doesn't It Cost Less To See a Bad Movie? 
  Timothy Noah Oct. 4, 1999
  
• Defending Rudy, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 30, 1999
  
• Clinton Is Pitchman for Weekly World News! 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 29, 1999
  
• In Praise of Movie-Ticket Prices 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 28, 1999
  
• The Al Gore-Bill Bradley Green-Off, Part II 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 27, 1999
  
• George Will's Double Standard 
  William Saletan Sept. 24, 1999
  
• Defending Rudy 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 23, 1999
  
• The Al Gore-Bill Bradley Green-Off, Part I 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 23, 1999
  
• Did Cokie Roberts Ever Use Cocaine? Part II 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 21, 1999
  
• Jesse Jackson, Personal Finance Guru 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 20, 1999
  
• Does Joyce Carol Oates Write in Her Sleep? 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 20, 1999
  
• All the News That's Fit To Rint 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 16, 1999
  
• Peggy Noonan Licks the Hand That Feeds Her 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 16, 1999
  
• Mr. Infrastructure Explains It All for You 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 16, 1999
  
• Tabloid King Altman Answers Critics 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 14, 1999
  
• More on Boomers, Rock, and Walt Mossberg 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 13, 1999
  
• Chattermailbox: FDR and Rock 'n' Roll 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 9, 1999
  
• Garry Trudeau on George W. as College Boy 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 9, 1999
  
• Newsweek to Faludi: All Is Forgiven! 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 8, 1999
  
• FDR: Father of Rock 'n' Roll 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 7, 1999
  
• Why the GOP Loves Death 
  Jodie T. Allen Sept. 7, 1999
  
• The Unequal Distribution of Physical Fitness 
  Timothy Noah Sept. 1, 1999
  
• Idiots and Their Boats 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 31, 1999
  
• Nixon's Monica Stonewalls, Part II 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 30, 1999
  
• Do Vacations Kill? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 27, 1999
  
• Happy Birthday, John McCain! 
  William Saletan Aug. 26, 1999
  
• My Kingdom for a Dry Cleaner 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 26, 1999
  
• The Sorry State of International Disaster Relief 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 24, 1999
  
• Nixon's Monica Stonewalls About Plagiarism! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 23, 1999
  
• What's Wrong With the Neighbors? 
  David Plotz Aug. 16, 1999
  
• Did Cokie Roberts Ever Use Cocaine? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 11, 1999
  
• Who's Afraid of The Blair Witch Project? 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 11, 1999
  
• A Clinton Pastor Prays and Tells 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 10, 1999
  
• The Final Word on Deep Throat (So Far) 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 9, 1999
  
• More on the Clintons and Psychotherapy 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 6, 1999
  
• Weatherbox: Part II 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 4, 1999
  
• Talk: The Web Site, Part II 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 2, 1999
  
• How Big Is Talk? 
  Michael Kinsley Aug. 2, 1999
  
• Talk: The Web Site! 
  Timothy Noah Aug. 2, 1999
  
• Deep Throat: The Game Is Afoot 
  Timothy Noah July 29, 1999
  
• Weatherbox 
  Timothy Noah July 28, 1999
  
• The Much-Prompted Impromptu Memorial 
  Jodi Kantor July 27, 1999
  
• Another Bulletin From the Deep Throat Desk 
  Timothy Noah July 26, 1999
  
• Chatterbox Goes Soft on Clinton 
  Timothy Noah July 22, 1999
  
• Broasted Chicken: A Chatterbox Investigation 
  Timothy Noah July 21, 1999
  
• Is Lou Dobbs (Cyber)Spaced Out? 
  Timothy Noah July 20, 1999
  
• Death or Taxes 
  David Plotz July 19, 1999
  
• Winging It 
  James Fallows July 19, 1999
  
• Too Funny for Brill's Content 
  Timothy Noah July 19, 1999
  
• Mister Bush's Neighborhood 
  Timothy Noah July 14, 1999
  
• The Carter Eskew Film Festival 
  Timothy Noah July 13, 1999
  
• Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds 
  Jodie T. Allen July 12, 1999
  
• Chatterbox Economicus 
  Timothy Noah July 12, 1999
  
• It's the End of the World, but Don't Panic 
  Timothy Noah July 12, 1999
  
• Chatterbox Visits the Cradle of Rap Music 
  Timothy Noah July 8, 1999
  
• Did a White Iowan Invent Rap Music? 
  Timothy Noah July 8, 1999
  
• More on Why People Talk to Reporters 
  Timothy Noah July 7, 1999
  
• How Democrats Invented the Internet 
  Timothy Noah July 6, 1999
  
• Make-Believe Government 
  Timothy Noah July 1, 1999
  
• Is a Pro-Choice Majority Disappearing? 
  Timothy Noah June 30, 1999
  
• Bill Bradley, Beach Boy 
  Timothy Noah June 29, 1999
  
• Why Are People Dumb About Talking to Reporters? 
  Timothy Noah June 28, 1999
  
• The New New New Yorker: Brains Over Buzz 
  Timothy Noah June 28, 1999
  
• Deep Throat Revealed (One Last Time) 
  Timothy Noah June 24, 1999
  
• Why Clinton Was Better Off Lying 
  Timothy Noah June 24, 1999
  
• For the Record, What "Off the Record" Means 
  Timothy Noah June 22, 1999
  
• Seven Characteristics of Incredibly Rich People 
  Timothy Noah June 21, 1999
  
• Deep Throat Revealed (Again) 
  Timothy Noah June 17, 1999
  
• How To Shock the Mayflower Madam 
  Timothy Noah June 17, 1999
  
• Why the Times Would Never Publish Woodward 
  Timothy Noah June 15, 1999
  
• Woodward Positions Himself on the First Couple 
  Timothy Noah June 14, 1999
  
• Chattermailbox: Love Calculator Mystery Solved 
  Timothy Noah June 10, 1999
  
• Wronged Wife Chic 
  Timothy Noah June 8, 1999
  
• Ghosted Graduation 
  Timothy Noah June 8, 1999
  
• How Homeownership Increases Unemployment 
  Timothy Noah June 7, 1999
  
• Accidents Can Happen 
  Timothy Noah June 4, 1999
  
• A Request for Reader Aid 
  Timothy Noah June 4, 1999
  
• The Founding Doubters 
  Timothy Noah June 3, 1999
  
• Homeownership and Citizenship, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah June 2, 1999
  
• Our Nation's Disposable Public Buildings 
  Timothy Noah June 1, 1999
  
• All You Need Is Love 
  Timothy Noah May 27, 1999
  
• Al Gore Is No Bunny Killer 
  Timothy Noah May 27, 1999
  
• Gore on the Fence Between Church and State 
  Timothy Noah May 25, 1999
  
• Does Homeowning Really Promote Good Citizenship? 
  Timothy Noah May 24, 1999
  
• Department of Self-Parody 
  Timothy Noah May 21, 1999
  
• What Did You Do in the Debacle, Tony? 
  Timothy Noah May 20, 1999
  
• Fox Announces the Learning Violence Channel 
  David Plotz May 20, 1999
  
• Chattermail: Phony Maybe, but Dangerous? 
  Timothy Noah May 19, 1999
  
• Let Us Now Praise Phony Cures 
  Timothy Noah May 17, 1999
  
• The AP's Non-Clarification Clarification 
  Timothy Noah May 14, 1999
  
• More Misterology 
  Timothy Noah May 13, 1999
  
• Belgrade Embassies for Dummies 
  Timothy Noah May 12, 1999
  
• Hitler, Meet Mister Milosevic 
  Timothy Noah May 11, 1999
  
• Hyde Flunks Barr 
  Timothy Noah May 10, 1999
  
• Riverrun I Feel Your Pain 
  Timothy Noah May 7, 1999
  
• Rotisserie Vietnam 
  Timothy Noah May 6, 1999
  
• What Did You Do in the War, Hammer? 
  Timothy Noah May 4, 1999
  
• There's Got to Be a Pony Here Somewhere 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 4, 1999
  
• Fare Treatment 
  Timothy Noah May 3, 1999
  
• Smoke and Mirrors 
  Timothy Noah April 29, 1999
  
• Conspiracy of Silence 
  Timothy Noah April 28, 1999
  
• The Impenetrable Mr. Lapham 
  Timothy Noah April 26, 1999
  
• This Ain't No Foolin' Around 
  Timothy Noah April 26, 1999
  
• Disoriented 
  Timothy Noah April 22, 1999
  
• PR Spree at the 'Journal' 
  Timothy Noah April 22, 1999
  
• Breeder Blues, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah April 21, 1999
  
• Breeder Blues 
  Timothy Noah April 19, 1999
  
• Inside Spitball 
  Timothy Noah April 19, 1999
  
• Bargain-Basement War 
  Jodie T. Allen April 16, 1999
  
• A Double Take 
  Timothy Noah April 15, 1999
  
• Take This Job and Shove It, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah April 14, 1999
  
• Take This Job and Shove It 
  Timothy Noah April 14, 1999
  
• Classical Rubbernecking 
  Timothy Noah April 13, 1999
  
• Stand Up and Be Counted (Twice) 
  Timothy Noah April 8, 1999
  
• Prime Time Slime 
  Timothy Noah April 7, 1999
  
• Folkman Cures All 
  Timothy Noah April 6, 1999
  
• Belgrade or Bust 
  Timothy Noah April 1, 1999
  
• Obstruction of Journalism 
  Timothy Noah March 31, 1999
  
• Will the Real Muckraker Please Stand Up 
  Timothy Noah March 30, 1999
  
• Who Lost Michael Isikoff? 
  Timothy Noah March 29, 1999
  
• Liar's Poker 
  Timothy Noah March 26, 1999
  
• Patriotic Anagrams 
  Timothy Noah March 25, 1999
  
• Paper Martyr 
  Timothy Noah March 23, 1999
  
• Gridiron Grotesquerie 
  Timothy Noah March 22, 1999
  
• Bob Woodward's Source-ery 
  Timothy Noah March 19, 1999
  
• God for President 
  Timothy Noah March 18, 1999
  
• Does Money Buy Happiness? Part II 
  Timothy Noah March 16, 1999
  
• Dating Advice for Hillary 
  Timothy Noah March 11, 1999
  
• The Chinese Wall at the 'Journal' 
  Timothy Noah March 11, 1999
  
• Truth and Legroom 
  Timothy Noah March 10, 1999
  
• The 'Post' Withholds Credit Where It's Due 
  Timothy Noah March 9, 1999
  
• Be a Babe Magnet Like Bill!!! 
  Timothy Noah March 8, 1999
  
• Gipper the Ripper? 
  Jack Shafer March 5, 1999
  
• Does Money Buy Happiness? 
  Timothy Noah March 4, 1999
  
• 'Rain in Seattle and Some Blame the Weather' 
  Michael Kinsley March 3, 1999
  
• Man Bites Dog 
  Timothy Noah March 2, 1999
  
• Parsing Kendall 
  Timothy Noah March 2, 1999
  
• Indis Hall of Fame: We Have a Winner! 
  Timothy Noah March 1, 1999
  
• Sterility: What Did He Think, When Did He Think It 
  Timothy Noah March 1, 1999
  
• Beyond 'God' and 'Dog' 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 25, 1999
  
• Husbands and Wives 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 25, 1999
  
• Even More "Proving Rape" 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 24, 1999
  
• Yalie Crybabies 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 23, 1999
  
• More "Proving Rape" 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 20, 1999
  
• Proving Rape 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 19, 1999
  
• On Holiness 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 19, 1999
  
• Safire's Mistake 
  Michael Kinsley Feb. 18, 1999
  
• The Elephant Man 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 18, 1999
  
• Weyrich Goes Off the Grid 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 17, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part 7 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 16, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part 6 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 15, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part 5 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 10, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part 4 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 9, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part 3 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 9, 1999
  
• Just Go 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 8, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal, Part Two 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 1999
  
• Hitchens v. Blumenthal 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 7, 1999
  
• Himmelfarb's Depravity Nostalgia 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 4, 1999
  
• Less Is Rushmore 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 4, 1999
  
• The Rich Are Different 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 3, 1999
  
• A Jewish President? 
  Timothy Noah Feb. 2, 1999
  
• Deficit Nostalgia 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 31, 1999
  
• Yellow (Plus) Journalism 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 28, 1999
  
• Free Sid 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 27, 1999
  
• Don't Flip the Byrd 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 26, 1999
  
• Faking It 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 25, 1999
  
• Brill's Stock Portfolio 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 23, 1999
  
• The Cell Phone Records, Part 2 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 22, 1999
  
• We Shall Overcome 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 18, 1999
  
• What Cell Phone Records? 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 15, 1999
  
• The Eight Fat Years 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 14, 1999
  
• A Plea for Boorishness 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 12, 1999
  
• The Case Against Ticktocks 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 11, 1999
  
• Lying to Larry 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 9, 1999
  
• Vengeful Dick 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 7, 1999
  
• "Monica" 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 5, 1999
  
• Speechless 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 4, 1999
  
• Chatter Like It's 1999 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 3, 1999
  
• Dump Johnson! 
  Timothy Noah Jan. 1, 1999