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Some Archived Posts from InstaPunk.com (2004-2014)

Links to an entire week of posts (relatively few) may suffer from some loss of image files and some isolated typographic anomalies. Links to single posts are mostly intact. Whole weeks are shown to provide access to posts that can’t be broken out separately. They also serve to illustrate the size of InstaPunk.com. Each week contains on average four to six individual posts; there are approximately 500 weeks in the Wayback InstaPunk.com Archive. That’s about 2,500 posts total. This list is therefore a small but representative sample of the site. More will be added as time permits. It’s a slow process.

About Instapunk

Mostly (but not all) About Media (Xmas Week, 2008)
Agent 009 (1/9/2009)
Honest Obe (1/13/2009)[Restored via rflaird.com]
On Miracles (1/16/09) [Restored via rflaird.com]
The Obamascension (1/20/2009)[Restored via rflaird.com]
Escaping Obama (1/22/2009) [Restored via rflaird.com]

Talking Torture (6/15/2004) [graphic pics]
Next Step : Saudi Arabia (6/28/2004)
Kerry-Edwards Kerry-Edwards (7/7/2004)
Michael Moore’s Little Oysters (7/8/2004)
Context II — Spiderman For President (7/12/2004)
The Box (7/15/2004)
Faking Whoopi (7/16/2004)
Mean-Spirited (7/17/2004)
How to Read Urbanely (7/19/2004)
Democrat Convention Week (7/20-7/27/2004)
Mother Teresa (7/28/2004)
Reporting for Duty (7/31/2004)
A Presidential Campaign Week (8/7/-8/12/2004)
Report from Athens (8/19/2004)
The Punk Writers’ Debate (8/26/2004)
Kerry, Commander-in-Chief  (8/26/2004) [Missing Pics]
Republican Convention Week (8/29-9/5/2004) [Missing Pics]
Innumerate Fool (9/10/2004)
Star Struck (9/15/2004)
Cherchez La Femme (9/19/2004)
John Kerry Is Unpatriotic (9/20/2004)
Election Week (11/1-11/8/2004)

Baby Dawk (8/1/2005)
Reforming the System (8/15/2005)
God Blames Bush (8/30/2005)
Michael Moore Update (8/25/2005)
Katrina Miscellany (9/7/2005)
Soccer! (9/8/2005)
Week of Katrina, Etc (9/19-25/1/2005)
Welcome to the Post-Apocalypse (9/26/2005)
Saving Air America (9/28/2005)
Dowdy Booty (10/31/2005)
A Battle Of Principle (10/31/2005)
Snopes (11/1/2005)
The’M’ Word (11/11/2005)
Answering La Malkin (11/18/2005)
The I-Generation (11/15/2005

Talking Peace (7/30/2006)
Don’t Move… (December 31, 2006)

Accomplices (1/22/2007, includes links to almost a dozen other Israel-related posts)
Money Talks (2/23/2007)
Quasidodo (5/21/2007)

The Secular Death Wish (March 19, 2008)
OldPunk Responds to Individual Commenters (& Other Saints) (3/24/2008)

Quiz for Your Liberal Friends (3/12/2009)
Obama Not Returning Peggy’s Phone Calls (3/13/2009)

REPRESENTATIVE WEEKS’ WORTH OF POSTS:

Reagan Funeral Week (6/10-6/17/2004) [See next link for breakout of ‘Torture’ post]

Dec 15 - 22, 2005 (Elton John’s Bride, Bruises, Brokeback Brains, Dumbest Ad Campaign of 2005, A Forgotten Mystery, Molly Irvin’s)
Dec 23- 30, 2005 (Looking Back, Merry Christmas)
Dec 31, 2005 - Jan 6, 2006 (Snob Games 2, Trojan Horse, Snob Games, Already. The Best of 2006.)
Jan 16 - Jan 23, 2006 (Amazon, The Illiterate Left, Golden Globes, Etc, Just a Suggestion, The Short List, Analogies - Remember them?, The Evil that is the Owl Club, And One More Thing)
Jan 24 - Jan 31, 2006 (Filibusted, Antichristianne Ammanpour, The House of Lords, The Most Beautiful by the Very Best, Instapunk Takes the Test, The New Tourette’s Syndrome, Desperate Humor)
Feb 25 - Mar 4, 2006 (Oscar Contest!, A Swedish Mystery, Euro-Muslim Fashion, NBA All-Star Game, FEMA flops Again, Which is Worse? Cartoon Dude of the Century)
Feb 17 - Feb 24, 2006 (The Big Picture, The New Right Wing, Mandy, NBC’s Olympic Crash, Going A’Waltzing)
Feb 25 - Feb 28, 2006 (Send Him Home, Installing the Safety Valve, Punch Mohammed, Contest: Rewrite the Cartoon, Vietnam Psychosis)



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