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April 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 4 — April 2010April 1st, 2010 In our cover essay, A regrettable decision, Terry Ross tells of a friend who gave away most of his carefully collected library and wishes he hadn’t. In Foundation for a bitter life, Greg Roberts deplores the sappy television commercials of the Foundation for a Better Life. Thong underwear devotee Beren deMotier describes the most embarrassing moment of her life in A cautionary tale.
Posted by: The Editors A regrettable decisionApril 1st, 2010 BY TERRY ROSS This is the saddest story I have ever heard. A couple of years ago a close friend of mine, who was moving from one state to another, did a very strange thing. For reasons that I’ve never understood, he decided to get rid of most of
Posted by: The Editors March 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 3 — March 2010March 1st, 2010 The All Crime Issue In our cover article, attorney Bud Gardner looks back on My career in crime. In Even I am a criminal, Greg Roberts observes that practically everything has been criminalized. In Crimes against the person, Rosemary McLeish deplores the fact that almost every woman has been the victim of sexual assault at some time in her life.
Posted by: The Editors The Case of the Missing Family TreeMarch 1st, 2010 BY JOHN M. DANIEL IN THE AJAX BUILDING A dame shaped like Centerfold Barbie glided into my office. “Mr. Blank,” she purred in an upper-class English accent, “I’m Josephine Toy. My family has lost its family tree. Can you help us?” “I know nothing about English trees, Mrs. Toy,” I answered. “Just the ones in northern Minnesota.” “It’s Miss.” She tossed an envelope onto my desk, then turned to leave. Her jeans were so tight I could read the tattoos on her buttocks: “Right,” “Left,” in that order. “Those are instructions, Mr. Blank,” she said over her shoulder. “So you can get in touch with me.”
Posted by: The Editors February 2009 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 2 — February 2010February 1st, 2010 In our cover article, Do inquiring minds want to know?, Terry Ross does some research and finds, surprisingly, that scientists are not in agreement on global warming, and that global warming may not even be occurring. Former prison inmate Dean Suess resigns himself to praying alone in Church without walls. In Ready for your closeup? Ed Goldberg ponders what lengths people will go to to achieve fame.
Posted by: The Editors Do inquiring minds want to know?What one curious person discovered about global warmingFebruary 1st, 2010 BY TERRY ROSS When I was in my early teens I used to read — devour, really — the magazine Scientific American. There was no doubt in my mind that I would one day become a scientist. Along with four or five like-minded classmates, I even got to be on a TV panel show discussing science with a science teacher. No one saw the show except our families, because it was on the educational station, but that didn’t dampen my enthusiasm.
This is all by way of prelude to my saying that if I’m not a scientist in any sense of the word, I am still interested in things scientific. Which has led me recently to the subject of global warming. I’ve done my best to read up on the subject, in hopes of discovering whether the predictions of virtually imminent catastrophe are something I should be worrying about, and I’ve made a few discoveries.
Posted by: The Editors January 2010 in Black LambVolume 8, Number 1 — January 2010January 1st, 2010 In our cover article for this Seventh Anniversary Issue, Terry Ross offers “suggestions for making the next few decades better than the last. In Got a light? Elizabeth Fournier tries hard to bond with her blind date over their common love for old matchbooks. Leslie Russell celebrates beekeeping in Light for the larder.
Posted by: The Editors Light for the larderJanuary 1st, 2010 BY LESLIE RUSSELL If you could wring the color out of October aspens, distill it into a viscous light, and capture this light in a Mason jar, you would have honey. We capped thirty-five pints of it this fall. Like a piece of super-enlarged honeycomb, the jar pattern covers the countertop, too precious to put away.
Posted by: The Editors December 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 12 — December 2009December 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our December issue, New world, Gillian Wilce writes her last column as London Pride. In our page two feature, Facing facts, Dean Suess re-relegates himself, once an extremely accomplished person, to the ranks of the mediocre. According to Ian Archer, raising children involves A thousand deaths.
Posted by: The Editors November 2009 in Black LambVolume 7, Number 11 — November 2009November 1st, 2009 In the cover article of our November issue, Till death us do…, Lane Browning discovers details of a friend’s death through an autopsy report, obtained online at 50¢ a page. In our page two feature, Dean Suess shows that “trials have little or nothing to do with truth” in Criminal Injustice. The world’s still going to hell, but in a heat wave, Ed Goldberg finds himself in Apathy season.
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