Opinion

February 24, 2004

Bumping Uglies on the Campaign Trail

By system

American politics can make you crazy. I opened the paper today to see that my favorite candidate from 2000 joined this year's race and my first reaction was "Fuck you! Stay the fuck out, you evil bastard!"

February 24, 2004

Damn Skippy: Movies Just Make Psychos More Creative

By Loren Willams

I get a huge kick out of hearing people complain about violence in the media. For my part, I tell them to go ahead and entertain themselves with "Teletubbies" and Celine Dion.

February 24, 2004

Flying Solo Ain’t So Bad – Even Overseas

By Kat Young

Greetings, all you young Cancun-loving college students. As Spring Break - and better yet, summer - begins to show its glorious light, young minds inevitably turn away from school.

February 24, 2004

Buttny Already a Crucial Part of County Leadership

By Gail Marshall

I have been the 3rd District County Supervisor for almost eight years. During that time, my executive assistant John Buttny and I have accomplished some very beneficial projects for Santa Barbara County.

February 23, 2004

Blue Traffic Lights: Israeli Struggle Inspires the U.S.

By Joey Tartakovsky

Since the second Intifada began in September 2000, 4,000 Israeli and Palestinian lives have been lost to fighting and terror. However, in the last five years in the Caucasus, 40,000 Chechens and Russians - mostly Chechen...

February 23, 2004

Beer and Honkys in San Luis Obispo

By system

I hear the cops in San Luis Obispo were herding people around like cattle this weekend. Guess you can only call a place a "cow-town" for so long before the people internalize it.

February 23, 2004

UCSB Suffers From Some Serious Ugly Issues

By Alex Keuper

They had part of Mesa Road closed a few weeks ago. Nothing important, but they posted no signs at the Ocean Road interchange - just a couple of good ol' boys with a barrier and a smile in front of the hazardous waste fac...

February 23, 2004

Firestone Anti-Buttny Ads Lack in Tact and Honesty

By Shawn Moura

Entertaining but dishonest ads just keep rolling into my mailbox from the Brooks Firestone campaign. The first of two recent ads was quite amusing. The "Friends of Firestone" seem to think that I place a great deal of tr...

February 23, 2004

The Reader

By Heather Buchheim

Why is it that I.V. landlords have felt the need to contribute thousands to Brooks Firestone's campaign?

February 23, 2004

The Reader

By Megan Lamantia-Bishop

Wow, Anthony Manganaro, you have got to chill out. In your article, "How To Get Laid at UCSB: Some Advice From a Freshman" (Feb. 20, Daily Nexus), you sound a bit like Seth Green's overzealous character, Kenny Fisher, in...

February 20, 2004

The Isla Vista Action Group

By Harry Nelson

Recently, the Nexus published articles discussing the Isla Vista Action Group, which we co-chair. Some of the information in these articles was inaccurate. We'd like to clarify the group's mission and progress.

February 20, 2004

Venture to Speculate in the Dark

By system

Dean is gone without winning a single state. At least he proved he could name 16 of them in 19 seconds. But that on-stage freak-out was bad strategy - everyone knows you wait to act like a maniac until you're in the priv...

February 20, 2004

UCSB Won’t Benefit From Proposition 55

By Nicholas Romero

It seems very ironic that our state flag has "California Republic" written on it. Out of all the states in the union, ours appears to be the least republican. Though Article IV, Section IV of the United States Federal Co...

February 20, 2004

Knock: Don’t Waste a Vote on a Candidate With No Love

By Drew Atkins

They don't care about you, those candidates for 3rd District supervisor. They just want your vote, and then you'll be thrown out like last night's beer bottles. Don't settle for such a shallow relationship.

February 20, 2004

How To Get Laid at UCSB: Some Advice From a Freshman

By Anthony Manganaro

I'm a little, nervous shit, so at my first UCSB party I walked up to this gigantic senior carrying a bottle of vodka and asked him, "So, how do you get a girl around here?" He didn't respond with compassionate advice or ...

February 20, 2004

Wintry Hot Line

By system

Man, these dreary winter days of rain drag the quarter on and on and on. Fuck that. Certainly the profes sors understand th at rain is a totally valid reason for an abs ence or three. Rainy days are mad e for the home. C...