Contents OPENERS

Assorted Short Takes


NEWS AND VIEWS

Trial by Media - Melinda McAdams

Accused Rapists Do Not Have the Right to Anonymity - Natalie Latorre

In God's Name - Barbara L. Delhotal

Burning Issue - Lamark Waldron & Ted Boonthanakit (comic)

Profiles in Courage: Bill Baird - Harvey Wood

Right To Life Game - Trina Robbins (comic)

Political and Corporate Censorship in the Land of the Free - John Shirley

Boy Scouts and Freedom From Religion - Donna Bocian


PERSIAN GULF WAR

Desert Storm Confidential - Ed Cafasso

Disgrace Behind the Glory - Leigh Roche

Female War Resistor Stands Her Ground - Aaron Nauth

Fired for Peace - Joe Reedy


UPDATES

Update from Broward County: 2 Live Crew - Deborah Wilker

2 Live Crew: The Double Standard is Alive and Well in the Nineties - Trina Robbins with Carol Leigh

Father Pfleger: Round 2 - Donna Bocian

RETROSPECTIVES

Lenny Bruce is Dead - Harlan Ellison

Lenny and Andre - Allen Sonnenschein

William M. Gaines Interview - Stephen Ringgenberg


POLITICALLY (IN)CORRECT SECTION

Gauntlet Bob - Russ Miller (comic intro)

Political Correctness: Getting There - Allan Sonnenschein

Politically Correct and Unrepentant - William Rose

Top Ten 'PC' Media Mouths - Teri Wingender

Disturbing Images: Cartoonist John Callahan - Mike Baker

P.C. Retrofix - Rex Miller

Rex's House Dictionary (sidebar) - Rex Miller

Political Correct Bashing - Sleeping With the Enemy - John Ames

Beware of the Proselytizing Vegetarians - John Sutherland

Your 'PC' Quotient - Richard Dominick

When Is a Joke A Slur - Hill McIntosh

Contradictions - Darryl Hattenhauer

1991 Most/Least Politically Correct - Bill Paige

America: A Great Place to Raise Your Kids - Ken Rand

More Heat Than Light - Wayne R. Smith & B.J. Barnes (comic)

From Lip Service to Forked Tongue - Teri Wingender

The 'Rap' of PC - Patrick Lawless

My Dinner With the Politically Correct - Richard Dominick

Show Us You're Nuts - Duane Swierczynski

Hey, I Gotta You 'PC'...Right Here! - Thomas F. Monteleone


COMICS

Finding The Cost of Freedom - Kate Worley

Watching the Media Watcher - Harvey Pekar

'...There's A Way' Remembering Dori Seda - Leslie Sternbergh

Of Nice and Men - Russ Miller (text and comic)

Interview with Joe Coleman - Carlo McCormick


FICTION

Freakbabies - Nancy A. Collins

Love Is Where You Buy It - Brian Hodge

Pelts - F. Paul Wilson, comic-strip adaptation by Russ Miller

Hester - Dave Swartout

Objects - Ron Leming

The Limits of Fantasy - Ramsey Campbell

Monsters - Jay Owens

The Process - Steve Rasnic Tem

Blind Hatred - Oliver Zschenker

Death at Eleven - Elizabeth Massie

Lines From a Diary - Trina Robbins

Vampire - Richard Christian Matheson

Laugh Track - Brian Riordan

Flesh Eating Muthas - James Kisner


ANYTHING GOES

Lyrics of Abuse Find Audience - Steve Lopez

Censor N.W.A.? Give Me A Break - Dave Marsh

The Tupelo Ayatollah - Skipp Porteous

Standing Up Against Censors (sidebar) - Skipp Porteous

San Francisco vs. Basic Instinct - Rebecka Wright

It Must Be The Camera - Stan Higgins

Top Ten Censorship Stories of 1991 - John Rosenman

King's Critics: A Reader's Smorgasbord - Michael R. Collins

Cherie Gaulke: Performance Artist Under Attack - William Relling, Jr.

The Shameful Enforcement of Video Chastity - Joseph P. Cunningham

Censor Me, Please! - Adam Alexander

A Challenge to the Media - W. Wilson Goode


BOOK REVIEWS

House of Fiction - Tom McDonald

Taboo Text - Linda Marotta

Behind the Mask: Non-Fiction Reviews - Matthew J. Costello