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Friday, May 16, 2008 – Here it is, like clockwork. Assuming the clock in question only ticks once every 336 hours, give or take a few. “Whatever you do will be insignificant,” Gandhi said, “but it is very important that you do it.” To whatever extent it may be important, we’ve just injected another 44,000 pages of information and attitude into the infosphere, where it may be picked up, for free, by whoever happens to see it, at one of our 160 or so distribution points. In this issue, we reveal the Democrats’ secret weapon for blowing the next election, we kick around John McCain’s …

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Friday, May 2, 2008 – We have done it again. Huzzah, if we do say so ourselves. Thousands of copies of yet another issue of the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™ have been distributed in Portsmouth and the surrounding towns of the Piscataqua. Hundreds more are at the Post Office, on their way (via First Class Mail!) to our subscribers in nearly every state and the District of Columbia. As for the rest of the world, we’re making a free pdf file of our previous issue (April 18) available today. Click on this link, or the image above.

Friday, April 18, 2008 – As is our current practice, now that our April 18 issue is on the streets and in the mail (First Class, no less!) we’re posting the previous fortnight’s paper (Vol. 252, No. 14, dated April 4) here, for the instant gratification of all you freeloading, silicon-based life-forms out there. Our subscribers, of course, will receive the genuine wood-pulp-based version of today’s paper in their mailboxes in just a day or two. If your dignity requires similarly privileged treatment, you may subscribe here. The issue we offer here for free, in pdf form, includes a Fortnightly Rant headlined “Peace Through Violence.” …

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Saturday, April 5, 2008 – Nil desperandum, Gazette fans. We may be a day late updating this site, and posting the new banner above, but The Olde Rag hit the streets here in the Piscataqua River watershed yesterday, on schedule. And, our subscribers’ papers are in the hands of the faithful U.S. Postal Service. They should be appear in most mailboxes Monday, if they haven’t yet arrived. As is our practice, we’re now making available our penultimate paper, Volume 252, No. 13, dated March 21. Just mash this link to download the thing, but be warned–it weighs 3.1 MB. In this issue we slag the …

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Friday, March 21, 2008 – We are proud to announce that we’ve once again defied the forces of entropy, and published another issue of this venerable newspaper. Even as we compose this post, one band of volunteers is preparing to mail copies – First Class! – to our hundreds of subscribers in nearly every state of the Union, while another group of stalwarts is fanning across town, placing thousands of copies in local business establishments, where they can be obtained for free by the ravenous reading public. But what about you, cyber-person? Have we forgotten you? We have not. We have made available to you …

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 – Yes, we know: the whole world is waiting for us to post something fresh here. Well, our dead-tree darling comes first, and we’ve got work to do between now and the deadline. So we’ll just offer this inside view of our operation, and ask for your patience.