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Friends Enable Good Times All the Time

Six years into my drinking career, I was getting pretty close to shelving the bottle. I mean, getting smashed for weeks on end was really starting to get boring. I've done everything from escaping a h...
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Weather

Imagine for a moment that you are the luckiest person in the world and you are my roommate's summer subleaser.
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America Vs. Europe

Coming home from a five-month sojourn in Florence, Italy, I had a lot of emotions running through me as I boarded my trans-Atlantic flight.
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Coastal Fund Cleans Up I.V.’s Mess

In response to the article, "Student Cleans Up Isla Vista" (Daily Nexus, June 25), it's easy to see we have a huge trash issue, but we also have the means to help curb the problem.
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Summer Serves Sizzling Stoner Sites

Ah, summertime -- the beautiful sunshine, the beach full of bronzed bodies, no school work and plenty of free time for those lazy, stoned afternoons. Obviously, I don't have to describe the exquisite ...
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Summer Weather

Happy summer, kiddos. The season brings a lot of awesome things, like sun, fun and lots of buns.
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We All Love to Talk About Sex, Baby

"Never kiss and tell." If your upbringing was anything like mine, your grandmother ensured a place for this advice in the back of your mind, right next to "always wash behind your ears."
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Turds and Tulips

Colorful, rainbow tulips to the Supreme Court of California for finally making gay marriage legal. No more “Brokeback Mountain” jokes, we promise. Rude, ignorant turds to David Horowitz fo...
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Farewell, abridged.

A correction on my final day, what are the f-ing odds? This sucks, but now that my reign is over, I’ve gotta ask: How the hell did I not get fired or cause a protest? I mean, I was pretty damn o...
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The ‘Human Gives Up Yearlong Weather Reign

Who is the Weatherhuman? It’s one of life’s great mysteries, right up there with the fact that the word “lisp” has an “s” in it and why it took the food industry so...
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Grand Old Party Teeters on Collapse

What is it about Republicans that drives them to pick the wrong side of every issue?
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Chicken Tikka Misspellers

Man this Scripps National Spelling Bee is quickly turning into the ultimate beauty pageant for Indian families eh?
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Dr. Dave Represents I.V.’s Best Interests

To all the citizens of Isla Vista: Don't be fooled by Doreen Farr as the election for 3rd District Supervisor approaches.
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Caffeine’s Side Effects Also Pose Significant Dangers

Editor, Daily Nexus, If Students for Safer Studying would kindly remove their heads from their asses (“Swap Illicit Adderall for Healthier Perks of Caffeine,” Daily Nexus, May 30), they wo...
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Bottled H2O Causes Many Wasteful Water Worries

Thirty billion bottles of water on the wall, take one down and pass it around and more than 2.5 million tons of CO2 in the air.
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