SOUTH OF TUK #102 January 28, 2004

The first issue of South of Tuk in each calendar year poses 20 to 25 survey questions designed to stimulate discussion.  These questions are imbedded in a single article which discusses things that were of interest to us in the previous calendar year.  The 2004 questions, in this issue, were:

1]Is Karla Homolka innocent?

2]Should “GUILTY by reason of insanity” replace “Not Guilty by reason of insanity?”

3]Should cannibalism be legalized?

4]Should white anglo-saxon heterosexual protestant males wear an ‘X’ on their foreheads?

5]Should we kill Muslims for Christ?

6]Should we end fluoridation and free Huey Newton? (oops, wrong year, re-run question)

7]What did you GET for Christmas?

8]Will the Canucks win the Stanley Cup?

9]Should Olympians compete naked?

10]Is chemically-enhancing one’s performance cheating?

11]Should Pete Rose get into the Hall of Fame?

12]Should Belinda Stronach become Canada’s second German-Canadian Prime Minister?

13]Does God have a penis?

14]Should Turks & Caicos become Canada’s 11^th province?

15]What is the shape of water?

16]Why is capitalism based on scarcity? (in a world of abundance)

17]Why is a silver spoon an instrument of health?

18]If only the fittest survive, explain the koala bear (which eats only eucalyptus leaves)

19]Did the spider learn to spin its web by trial and error? (How’d it feed while learning?)

20]Why is the sun’s temperature minus 238 K?

21]Why does God spank us?

22]Should schools be allowed to give examinations?

Keywords in this single-story issue, in order of appearance:  Andrea Riel-Lean, Patricia Hearst, Sundance Film Festival, Stockholme Syndrome, brainwashing, The Cigars of Heaven, Karla Homolka, Paul Bernardo, St. Paul, Augustine, propaganda, cannibalism, eucharist, United Nations, religare, Sikh, Jew, 1974 Toronto mayoralty election, Norman Mailer, female circumcision, Michael Jackson, labels, pink triangle, longevity, American diet, pharmaceutical cartel, bread and circuses, Superbowl XXXVIII, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Raptors, Mark Twain, Olympics, haemoglobin, results, athletic excellence, Pete Rose, moral turpitude, citizenship, social conservatives, Belinda Stronach, Magna, Erik von Harten, Montessori, robotics contest, political correctness, economic servitude, power to retain power, coercion, platform, free trade, cannabis, Turks & Caicos, spanking, organic development, integrated complexity, custodians, Carlton Gajdusek, kuru, Henry Kissinger, prion, E coli, pleomorphism, Louis Pasteur, AIDS, influenza, SARS, crystalline, bioharmonic frequency generator, Leonard Horowitz, healing codes, water, memory, homeopathy, Fred Hoyle, editing.  There was one foot-note in this issue:  Rites of Initiation for the First Degree, The Order of the Black Eagle

Cover: “Cottonwoods at Oyama” 1959, K’lakokum

Rear Cover: “Angel Moon One” 2004, K’lakokum