Private Dancer: Moderation Makes for Half-Ass Opinions

May 16, 2005 by

Whenever I hear the term "moderate" in political parlance, I tend to think of the kind of person who reaches a fork in the road and goes whichever way it's hanging. Or I think of the type who, never a...
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Private Dancer: Clearing the Angry Air

May 5, 2005 by

Given the large number of misinterpretations of my last column ("Private Dancer: The Deception Behind Gender Studies," Daily Nexus, April 19), a few things need to be cleared up. First off, there is a...
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Private Dancer: The Deception Behind Gender Studies

April 19, 2005 by

I'm not much for playground gender discourse. Men aren't from Mars - and as far as I'm concerned, if women were really from Venus, they'd have three boobs. Yet there are certain phallophobic feminists...
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Private Dancer: Arrogant Activism

April 8, 2005 by

Any remaining notion that modern liberalism is the politics "of the little man" must be retired in light of the open-space agenda. Liberalism is really just the politics of liberals - to impose whatev...
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Private Dancer: Practice Your Preaching

February 22, 2005 by

Last week we learned that some members of the Academic Senate have launched a crusade to ban the ROTC from campus. The crusade is being led by Charles Bazerman, chair of the Dept. of Education, and Th...
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Private Dancer: More Than Youthful Fancy

February 7, 2005 by

Who's afraid of Ayn Rand? If you've heard of Ayn Rand, whose centennial birthday was Wednesday, it is probably because you've read her novels The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.
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Private Dancer: Wake Up, Progressives

January 24, 2005 by

The progressive movement sprouted from the idea that the world would really get somewhere if only everybody would let their lives be run by progressives. Central to the idea was a centralized and empo...
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Private Dancer: A System With a Soul

January 10, 2005 by

When I was a little child, my morality was driven by fear - not of God, but of Santa. Even if my parents had indulged me with religious teachings, I have a feeling that my fear of going to hell would ...
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Perversions Over Politics?

December 2, 2004 by

I reject the terms "liberal" and "conservative." In fact, I think everyone should refer to themselves politically by their sexual fetishes.
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Why I Could Care Less About Elitist Liberal Ramblings

November 18, 2004 by

I have better things to do than care about post-election Democratic stress disorder. Sure, it was delightful and satisfying to see so many people suffer from their own elitist delusions, but now the t...
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Welcome to a Nation Divided

November 5, 2004 by

Among the things that culminated on this Election Day was one of the most impassioned and personal political hate-fests in American history. Last-minute examples included the revelation of Walter Cron...
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Don’t Let Them Scare You

October 22, 2004 by

The Office of Student Life displays a poster that says: "Vote, Because You Can." Beside the words, there is a picture of a dog looking like she just came out of a voting booth. The irony, apparently, ...
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Don’t Mix Sex And State

October 11, 2004 by

There is nothing gayer - in the adolescent slang sense of the term - than the issue of gay marriage. Never have so many people whined so much over something that is so stupid.
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Returning to the High School Womb

April 30, 2004 by

It is widely acknowledged that UCSB is a pretty weird place. It's the type of place that when you hear about puppy love, it most likely has something to do with bestiality. This naturally came up when...
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Campus Littered With CALPIRG Representatives

January 15, 2004 by

Walking on campus recently, I was interrupted from an intense conversation with myself by a little man who asked, "Have you pledged for the environment yet?"
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