SECOND THOUGHTS ON A FEW FUNDAMENTALS.

volume 13 number 1 may/june 2002.

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ONE LUCKY YEAR

Calling all black cats: this issue marks the beginning of Mouth's thirteenth year, and the beginning of our reinvention too. Thanks, everybody, for sticking by us, seeing us through.

IN THIS ISSUE:

BUSH DECLARES WAR ON PSYCH SURVIVORS.

IS IT OKAY TO EXECUTE PEOPLE WHO SCORE LOW ON I.Q. TESTS? Zack rosetti says that's a trick question. His article page 16 will no doubt raise a little consciousness -- and a big stink. Where do you wieigh in? Write us a letter.

DISABILITY POLITICS: EXCLUDE THE NON-DISABLED?

TWENTY YEARS OF TEACHING A MAN TO TIE HIS SHOES.

AVALANCHE CONTINUES IN RESPONSE TO CRITIQUES OF ADAPT.

Psychoactive drugs are today named for the promises they make, not the commands. It's Zoloft not BeMorePositiveFerCryin'OutLoud. Paxil not Shuddup. But now mandatory mental health goes into effect, so watch out. See "Grief Plice," page 9. See also page 22 for a story by the enviro-mental folks who pictured the pharmaceutical shown.

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR FEATURES

Quick Bites.
Urgent Dispatch.
Dispatch from the Front.
The Grief Police.
ReSources.
Mouth House.
Avalanche.
Friends Forever.
The Attitude Catalog.

A FEW FUNDAMENTALS

M.A.C. Farrant reports on the life of Darwin Alone in the Universe.
Zach Rosetti believes that when you kill for justice You Must Kill Us All Equally.
Art Blaser discourages rumors about the death of Disability Identity Politics.
the Staff of Adbusters wants you to know that Just Because You're Not Paranoid.
Scott Chambers, investigative illustrator, asks What Really Happened to that Paperwork?
E. Neil Vanover requests that you submit The Bliss Report.
John McKnight offers some further thoughts on John Deere and the Bereavement Counsellor.

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