You Will Never Fear Being Alone Again
Sad and alone on a Friday night? Don’t worry, Omegle’s gotcha back. How-to Guru is here to teach you how to chat up the Internet-bound ladies and gents in style.
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Columns
Evolutionary Facts: No Reason to Cry Rape
My three faithful readers (mom, dad, Regina) may remember that this space once housed a media column. But last week, I decided that I no longer want to overanalyze Twitter each week, and would rather discuss men who want to have sex with very young girls (and other facets of human behavior). Hence, Field Notes.
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There’s No Time Like Christmas for the Jews
Not everyone thinks Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year — namely, Jews. While many grin and bear it during the holiday season, quietly celebrating Hanukkah as their neighbors erect 1000-watt Santas in their front yards, some may want to avoid all the Jesus cheer (or at least capitalize on it). Here’s how:
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Our D-II Limbo: Time for UCSD to Decide
UCSD began competition in collegiate athletics as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics — NCAA’s envious younger brother or inadequate cousin.
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When You’re Dead to the World, Not to the Internet
As of last week, I have vowed to never again complain about fixing people’s bad writing. I have found true horror, and it is not the annoyance of repeatedly correcting passive voice to active voice. True horror is the pain of reading through your own terrible writing. It is the despair of slogging through eight years of overly earnest blogs, almost all of which make me roll my eyes so hard I can almost see my brain.
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Does the Beautiful Game Need a Makeover?
Defense-minded soccer won’t help the sport’s popularity in the U.S.
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Picking On This “New Girl” is Just Too Easy
I’m sorry world — I don’t like Zooey Deschanel. I fall into the camp of people who roll their eyes when she does something “adorkable,” instead of breaking out into a spontaneous rendition of “You Make My Dreams Come True.”
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Supreme Court Debates Mass Surveillance in 1984-esque Case
It is a truth universally acknowledged that doomsayers determined to point out the slippery slope of politics will always reference 1984. With its vision of Big Brother, trackers and the thought police, George Orwell’s political classic has become the tired go-to for anyone threatened by big government — and even, as of last Tuesday, for members of the government itself. On Nov. 8, the novel was referenced six times by the Supreme Court while hearing the case of whether police should be able to track anyone via GPS.
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Global Warming: Killing Jobs and Bears
The U.S. Department of Energy released a report last week that world emissions of carbon dioxide jumped 6 percent in 2010 — a figure far worse than what climate scientists predicted four years ago. And half of the increase is attributable to China and the United States. Despite all of this, President Obama halted the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate air quality in September, succumbing to a belief that regulations would kill jobs.
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Protest Tunes They Are a Changin’
Since Occupy Wall Street began on Sept. 17, there’s been a lot of yelling — but, sadly, not much singing. Though the protest and all its subsequent nationwide occupations began over 50 days ago, there has yet to be a single significant protest song like the anthems that shook the movements of the ’60s.
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