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