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Weekly Review — May 14, 2013, 8:00 am

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Pakistan’s first democratic transfer of power, the IRS and DOJ overstep their bounds, and the Pope comes out against spinsters

Saluting the Town (Stream)

Weekly Review — May 7, 2013, 8:00 am

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One World Trade Center gets its spire, the Gitmo hunger strike continues, and the OED explores revirginize

A Humbug (thumb)

Weekly Review — April 30, 2013, 8:00 am

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A Bangladeshi building collapses, George W. Bush’s presidential library opens, and koala chlamydia ravages Australia

Babylonian Lion (thumb)

Weekly Review — April 23, 2013, 8:00 am

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A manhunt in Massachusetts, the Gitmo hunger strike grows, and the cause of earthquakes in Iran

An American Mastiff.

Weekly Review — April 16, 2013, 8:00 am

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A bombing at the Boston Marathon, a gun suicide at an NRA-sponsored event, and Anne Frank’s beliebf

ALL IN MY EYE

Weekly Review — April 9, 2013, 8:00 am

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Oil spills, the Iron Lady, and Barbie’s Berlin Dreamhouse

A Humbug (thumb)

Weekly Review — April 2, 2013, 8:00 am

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The Supreme Court considers skim-milk marriage, a Guantánamo Bay hunger strike expands, and Egyptian scuba divers sabotage SEA-ME-WE-4

“What Though I Am Obligated To Dance a Bear” (thumb)

Weekly Review — March 26, 2013, 8:00 am

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Obama hoofs it to Israel, Cyprus barely skates by, and a Canadian suggests an unusual stimulus project

ALL IN MY EYE

Weekly Review — March 19, 2013, 8:00 am

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Pope Francis among the people, rapist self-pity, and a slavery debate at CPAC

Saluting the Town (Stream)

Weekly Review — March 12, 2013, 8:00 am

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Chávez cancer conspiracy theories, drone droning, and coitus leo interruptus

Babylonian Lion (thumb)

Weekly Review — March 5, 2013, 8:00 am

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Sequestration remonstration, shticklomacy in North Korea, and the menagerie of Nutzu the Pawnbroker

“What Though I Am Obligated To Dance a Bear” (thumb)

Weekly Review — February 26, 2013, 8:00 am

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Papal preparations, Polish diacritics, and Norwegian wood critics

A Humbug (thumb)

Weekly Review — February 19, 2013, 8:00 am

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Meteoric tidings, a paraplegic piglet’s wheelchair, and Chubby Checker’s Chubby Checker check

Saluting the Town (Stream)

Weekly Review — February 12, 2013, 8:00 am

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Pope Benedict XVI retires, as does the world’s most prolific streaker

An American Mastiff.

Weekly Review — February 5, 2013, 8:00 am

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Guns, the big game, and circular fast-food logic

ALL IN MY EYE

Weekly Review — January 29, 2013, 8:00 am

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Inauguration week politics, Aramaic vowel preservation, and Canadian foreskin awareness

Babylonian Lion (thumb)

Weekly Review — January 22, 2013, 8:00 am

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West African extremists, Obama's gun challenge, and tragic Belgian twins

“What Though I Am Obligated To Dance a Bear” (thumb)

Weekly Review — January 15, 2013, 8:00 am

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Australian wildfires, Giant Peach arithmetic, and Russian zorb misadventures

Weekly Review — January 8, 2013, 8:00 am

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A (relatively) diverse new Congress, Brigitte Bardot's elephant empathy, and life on Ezie Street

Saluting the Town (Stream)

Weekly Review — January 1, 2013, 8:00 am

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Fiscal cliffhanger

An American Mastiff.

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