Rick's Notebook

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Here's the complete archive of Rick Bayan's immortal tirades for your reading pleasure: December 2002 — Hello, I Must Be Going November 2002 — A Raving Moderate August 2002 — Is Western Civilization Worth Saving? July 2002 — To Scam or Be Scammed June 2002 — I Read the News Today, Oh Boy May 2002 — Speechophobia April 2002 — Fanatics on Parade March 2002 — The Prestige Gap: A Lament February 2002 — On Becoming a Dullard January 2002 — Art for Slackers December 2001 — An Unsolicited Christmas Card November 2001 — A Tale of Two Tribes October 2001 — On the Fallen Towers August 2001 — Why Do We Bother? June 2001 — Notes from a Doomed Planet May 2001 — The Museum of Discarded Names April 2001 — Indecision March 2001 — A Slight Case of Insanity February 2001 — Letter to a Conscientious Critic January 2001 — The Cynic's Inaugural Address December 2000 — The 50th Tirade November 2000 — Travel Advisory October 2000 — Beyond Work September 2000 — More Work August 2000 — Work July 2000 — The Doves' Nest June 2000 — Great Affectations May 2000 — Tale of a Virtual Village April 2000 — The World Is My Obstacle Course March 2000 — A Living Heck February 2000 — On the Treachery of Time January 2000 — A Letter to the Future December 99 — Rare Bird November 99 — Not Just Another Obscure Ethnic Group October 99 — Extinction Reconsidered September 99 — Good Life, Bad Life, Better Life August 99 — Household Relics: An Elegy July 99 — A Meditation on Profanity June 99 — In Praise of Sloth May 99 — A Bug's Death April 99 — Obligations! March 99 — The Courage to Be Ordinary February 99 — A Grave Story January 99 — What's Left for Men? December 98 — On the Uses of Friends November 98 — A Cynic's Thanksgiving October 98 — Grand Illusions September 98 — Filth August 98 — Will the Real God Please Stand Up? July 98 — Adventures in Downsizing June 98 — Lady Longevity May 98 — Uniquely Human, Uniquely Clueless April 98 — The Mathematics of Excess March 98 — Humbuggery February 98 — Love and the Single Cynic January 98 — By the Sweat of Your Brow December 97 — Is Suffering Unfashionable? November 97 — The Tao of Housekeeping October 97 — The Sensory Deprivation Blues September 97 — Down with Natural Selection! August 97 — Noise July 97 — On Eating Our Fellow Creatures June 97 — Trouble in Book-Land May 97 — Interview with an Unemployable Man April 97 — The Cynic's Dream March 97 — Inequalities February 97 — Flesh and Mortality January 97 — How to Be a Success December 96 — Why I Can't Hate Christmas November 96 — How I Became a Cynic

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