VOLLEYBALL: Women Anteaters go on the road and take one of two Big West games.

SOCCER: Men's soccer bounces back and takes care of UC Riverside on the road 4-2.

THE ORACLE: Make way, Mitch Kupchak; Ned Colleti has quickly propelled himself into the general managerial elite.

THE HYPOTHESIS: On Nov. 4, I will push aside the curtain of my voting booth and, with pen in hand, write in which candidate I want to see in office. I am going to vote for the "Blue Party." No, not the Obamacan blue party. The Dodger Blue party.

BOXING: Vitalki Klitschko takes care of Samuel Peter and rising star Chad Dawson upsets Antonio Tarver.

TENNIS: Khumpol Isarra and Steven Henderson impress at the Pre-Regional Tournament in singles events.

GOLF: Red-shirt senior Jane Chin talks about taking a year off, the pressures and future plans.

It's hard to rage against the machine. However, if you're a well-established name in the music industry, it may have just become easier.

The media has consistently used polls to create news and forward its liberal agenda.

The Republican party chairman in Macomb County, Michigan, probably should have considered his wording when he admitted in an interview that his organization was actively compiling a list of foreclosed homes in order to void voter registration.

Following a record setting 85-day stalemate over the state budget, the financial situation for California looks nearly as downtrodden as it did two weeks ago when state officials were seemingly still in a deadlock deciding the budget. Because the budget was planned too optimistically and state revenue has been unable to meet original estimates, the deficit, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been aiming to close, looks like it will get a lot worse before it gets better.

The presidential town hall debate on Oct. 7 produced daylight fireworks. That is, it was fun to watch for a little bit, but you pretty much didn't see anything. The debate produced no knockout blow for either candidate, at least not overtly. This ultimately meant a win for Barack Obama. He cruised to another debate win just by showing up, but that is not to say he didn't articulate his positions well.

The image of the 1950s is that of a simple and quaint life. The picture-perfect nuclear family was comprised of a father who worked from dawn until dusk, a mother with a bobbed perm and a kill-you-with-kindness attitude and kids (one girl, one boy of course) who thought that the world's greatest injustice was being bullied in high school. Throw in a fascination with dishwashers and a loose-to-iron-fisted love for the Bible and you have your stereotypical, white-picket-fence-dog-in-the-yard family, every hippie's nightmare and every Republican's dream. While this image is dead to our generation, the dream for a "perfect family" just can't stay buried.

Remember the Iraq War? Remember the latest body count of innocent civilians? No? That's okay because "Dancing with the Stars" was on TV and that is more important.