Dubious and far-fetched ideas.

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• Drugstore Shopping Spree Slate's guide to last-minute, low-budget gift giving.
  Torie Bosch Dec. 21, 2006
  
• It's a Wonderful Presidency An American classic, revisited.
  Frank Cammuso Nov. 20, 2006
  
• Stay the Course The press conference Bush wanted to give.
  William Saletan Nov. 8, 2006
  
• Writing Dirty Slate Quiz: Match the porn with the politician who wrote it.
  Oct. 27, 2006
  
• The George Allen Insult Generator Hey, macaca, play Slate's fun new game!
  Josh Levin Sept. 26, 2006
  
• The Ape in Me Slate's important new discoveries about the human genome.
  Evan Eisenberg Sept. 1, 2006
  
• Chuck Klosterman, the Author Photos The stories behind the book jackets.
  Doree Shafrir Aug. 31, 2006
  
• Search History The records of AOL customer No. 16006693.
  Evan Eisenberg Aug. 15, 2006
  
• Coming Never to a Theater Near You An unusually moronic movie trivia slide show.
  Cate Plys Aug. 8, 2006
  
• As Long As You're Looking … The upside of executive-branch surveillance programs.
  Robert Raben July 10, 2006
  
• President Bush's Birthday Card Condi, Laura, and Rummy wish Dubya a happy 60th.
  Alan Cross July 6, 2006
  
• Space Invader Rupert Murdoch's MySpace page.
  Jim Hanas July 5, 2006
  
• The State of the Dylan Address An annual tradition.
  David Yaffe May 24, 2006
  
• The Brangelina Baby What it means for you and your family.
  Matt Haber May 19, 2006
  
• Justice Breyer Finds Anna Nicole Hot If Supreme Court opinions were written for the cable news shows.
  Dahlia Lithwick May 1, 2006
  
• Bill O'Reilly, White House Flack Washington journalists, meet your new press secretary.
  Josh Levin April 27, 2006
  
• The Ipex Tech Forum Ironing out the wrinkles in the world's most advanced bra.
  Evan Eisenberg April 12, 2006
  
• The Two-Minute Haggadah A Passover service for the impatient.
  Michael Rubiner April 11, 2006
  
• George W. Bush: The Audit A green-eyeshade accounting of the president's political capital.
  David Atkins March 29, 2006
  
• Upon a T-Shirt A very short poem.
  Evan Eisenberg March 14, 2006
  
• Your Bill of Rights Newly partially declassified recently classified documents to be released, White House says.
  Evan Eisenberg March 7, 2006
  
• 360 Degrees of Anderson Cooper What will he feel next?
  Tom Peyer Jan. 10, 2006