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America, the Liberator

January 20, 2006 by Colin Marshall

"We should pull the troops out right now," asserted a hunched, eighty-year-old woman. "If some other army told you how to run your country, how would you feel about that?"
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Thieves Reach a New Depth

January 20, 2006 by Sean Swaby

A brief summary of a conversation between the roommates this past Monday morning: One enters. "Where have you been?""Buying deodorant.""Deodorant?""Yeah, some asshole jacked my deodorant at the party ...
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Early Checkout Is Better than Burnout

January 19, 2006 by Nick Pasto

A motivational speaker once told me that it's important to set goals if you hope to accomplish anything in life. He then asked me if I had set any goals for myself. I told him that my life's ambition ...
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Scatastrophe

January 19, 2006 by

I just found out today that the Sciggity Scat Man has died. Apparently, this happened several scaggety years ago, but that does not detract from the skiddity-magnitude of such a tragedy.
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Exposed Racist Infrastructure

January 19, 2006 by Courtney Bowden

When I first read "Race Relations Unjustly Questioned in Katrina Aftermath" (Daily Nexus, Jan. 17) I was disgusted. This is not an uncommon response for me to have after reading the Nexus, which is wh...
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Says Goodbye to Beloved Israeli Prime Minister

January 19, 2006 by Neer Lerner

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a major stroke, accompanied by massive internal bleeding and exacerbated by blood thinners prescribed to him for a previous stroke.
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Sex Please – We’re British and Inconspicuous

January 19, 2006 by Sam Solnick Kate Wills

It's hard being British. Or maybe it's not hard enough.
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Come Slide Away With Me

January 18, 2006 by Nina Anthony

Once upon a time, the best part about summer was the Slip 'n' Slide. Breaking out that rubbery strip and hosing it down for the kids to throw themselves on was required at every celebration.
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I Can’t … I’m Mormon

January 18, 2006 by

Did you know UCSB is the second-fittest college campus next to BYU? This is bullshit.
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Sudanese Need Aid, Not Divestment

January 18, 2006 by Staff

The tragedy of Darfur, for all of us Sudanese, is and will remain a deep scar for years to come. The causes and roots of the conflict are, however, complex and intertwined. One of the tools of the ant...
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If the Future Has You Stumped, It’s Time To Get Crunked

January 18, 2006 by Bri Lafond

The plan for the rest of my life is due at the end of the quarter and I've been procrastinating rather badly on it. I mean, I've barely touched the thing and there's the deadline, hovering all big and...
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Churchill Illegitimately Compared to Dr. King, Jr.

January 18, 2006 by Scott M. Roney

In her January 17 column, Maria Reifel Saltzberg ("Radical Activist Stirs Rights Debate," Daily Nexus) defends the racist, violent and extremely hateful views of Ward Churchill - even invoking the nam...
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UCSB Tri-athlete Not At Fault in Cycling Accident

January 18, 2006 by Eva Inbar

Again, we are blaming the victim. Kendra Payne, a young bicyclist and UCSB triathlete, was on a morning ride up Gibraltar Road, when she was killed by an asphalt truck attempting to pass her.
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UC To Decide On Darfur

January 17, 2006 by Adam Rosenthal Jason Miller Adam Sterling

In 1944, Polish lawyer Raphel Lemkin, in response to the Holocaust that took the lives of 49 family members, coined the term genocide to describe a crime against humanity so horrific that it needed it...
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