All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
‘Django’: Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil
I have been told by some of my friends to not start this article with the “N-word.” As good an idea as that may be, it would have gotten the point across. You would have read that and re-read that, only to let the first six letters of this article bubble and boil around in [...]
Dive Off the Fiscal Cliff
Read my lips: new taxes. Before I go into my snarky assessment of this and that and who did what and what it all means, the very bottom line is that, due to the so-called fiscal cliff agreement, your payroll taxes will increase by two percent. Just thought you might want to know that before [...]
Forging The Final Frontier
Let’s pretend that Martians do exist. Aside from laughing it up about our whimsically inaccurate drawings of them that we’ve unquestionably adopted (green, big heads, twig-like bodies), Martians probably think we have loneliness problems. Assuming they’ve had a bird’s-eye view onto the interworking of our current political and economic atmospheres, they’d be bewildered as to [...]
High Time For Legalization
For years, marijuana prosecution has troubled a large part of the US population, ranging from smokers to law enforcement, and for good reason. Supporters of legalization provide a long list of arguments that prove the war against pot to be highly unreasonable. My first argument, and perhaps the most compelling, is that criminalization is impractical [...]
This Is The End, My Sweetest Friend
Our planet, spherical and regally blue, will be engulfed by its sun. Flames laced with radiation will stretch across space and melt our atmosphere. Our earth will be scorched till all that remains is a blackened world filled with the charred, smoldering remnants of extinct civilizations. The end of humanity is upon us, supposedly. Dec. [...]
You’ll Do Us Proud, UCI
It is only a matter of time before we must begin accustoming ourselves to writing “2013” all over again, but while we still have a few weeks left in 2012, let us take a look at the last 10 weeks. There is much to commend and recognize here at UC Irvine, and we hope that [...]
A Year in Review
If you’re reading this, most likely, the Mayans were wrong. Or, more probably, a bunch of scientific illiterates talking to the scientifically uninformed were wrong. Either way, it’s a time to rejoice. We’ve survived another year, and we have at least another half-decade before the next Armageddon is narrowly avoided (Palin ’16, anyone?). So, what [...]
Go Ask Adam: Proposition 35 and Human Rights
There were few close calls in California on Nov. 6. The only “close” proposition was 37, which failed to pass by a little over 3 percent. The Big Win was a common result throughout politically monochrome California, where Proposition 40 passed 72-28 and 31 failed by around 60 percent. But these results pale in comparison [...]
PMSing Hard Right Now
If you are a woman, you may have likely, at some point in your life, had someone blame “your period” for a time when you spoke up, stood up for yourself or others or demonstrated any form of attitude or assertiveness. While there is no denying that there are unpleasant physical symptoms, such as cramps, [...]
Life, Liberty, Lottery
Most UCI students can probably admit to having forked over a dollar or two at least once in hopes of winning millions of dollars in the lottery in return. And when the winnings reach up to hundreds of millions of dollars these days, who can resist? The lottery is an odd trapping of luck and [...]
