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Verbose Artsweek Columnist Slights the Current Punk Scene

It's a lot like the phrase "pick on someone your own size" - instead of making an interesting comment on makeoutclub.com and wannabe hipsters shakin' their hips, Drew Mackie, in a verbose and exaggera...
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Playing by the Rules of War

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, when, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, as the entire nation of Israel was in prayer and fasting, the combined armies or Syria and Egyp...
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Fat and Groping in Sacramento

Today is the day the bodybuilders, porn stars, midgets and politicians will battle for the prize--and that's only at the famous Tuesday Twister Tournament at the weathercave.
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Recall Tells Politicians Exactly Where to Stick It

It comes as no surprise. And as the deadline of Oct. 7, 2003 approaches, I truly hope that soon-to-be former Governor Gray Davis isn't surprised as well.
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Tribes Don’t Deserve Arnie’s Unfounded Criticisms

In a pre-election poll released on Wednesday, 61 percent of those polled say they will recall Davis, and 45 percent say they will vote for Schwarzenegger. It appears evident that California will soon ...
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Pornographers: The Champions of American Values

I'm appalled at the lack of civility being shown to an upstanding segment of our community: pornographers. These paragons of America's defining value - freedom - are inexplicably reviled despite cease...
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Nexus Election Endorsements: The Recall

This recall is costing the state of California $70 million that definitely don't need to be spent. Especially not on a sideshow.And there's already talk of a new recall campaign to begin if Schwarzene...
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War on Leaks

The Bush people are being accused of blowing the cover of a CIA agent to get back at her anti-war husband, and some people are wondering why it took the administration several weeks after finding out ...
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Nexus Election Endorsements: Governator

Ah, the least of 152 evils. Picking Cruz Bustamante as the best candidate to replace the present governor is like spotting the least soiled corner of a discolored Motel 6 mattress.
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Nexus Election Endorsements: Prop. 53

Proposition 53 is the closest thing to being boring to the point of death that anyone at this office has ever encountered. An interesting scheme, really, if its intent is as malicious as its possibili...
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Nexus Election Endorsements: Prop. 54

Although UC Regent Ward Connerly would like for the ethnically diverse state of California to cease differentiating between black, white, brown and every other shade of skin color, a ban on racial cla...
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Bus-ted

Watergate, Monicagate, Fajitagate. And now a scandal to top them all: Bus Gategate. The label "scandal" possibly casts too poor a light on a simple device, but the gate installed to allow only Santa B...
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It Wasn’t Funny Anyway

A weatherhuman and its readers have nothing without trust, so I'll be up front with you. The words you read in yesterday's weather were not mine-somebody fucked up and my words were lost.
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Arnold Schwarzensexist

Let's start with a few recall election truisms. A week from now, the zany recall circus will be over and California's tax-loving, business-loathing government might just be in the hands of family man ...
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Drugstore Cowboy: Medicinal Mayhem in the War on Cannabis

The war on drugs has sunk to a new low. Last Sunday, Sept. 28, the San Joaquin County District Attorney's office filed charges against Aaron Paradiso, who lives outside of Stockton. Aaron is a quadrip...
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