Humor

How redefining ‘polluted water’ as ‘holy water’ could affect Barrett on water law cases
HumorNovember 13, 2020
Clues to how Amy Coney Barrett might decide cases involving the Clean Water Act There has been much discussion of how new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s deep Catholic faith and membership of the Charismatic Christian group “People of Praise” could affect how she might rule on cases involving abortion access and LGBT rights. […]

Seasonal flu set to make big comeback after rise of COVID-19
HumorNovember 11, 2020
“I’m ready to prove all the haters wrong” “COVID-19 is only as bad as the flu!” “COVID-19 is worse than the flu!” That’s what we have been hearing for months from people comparing the flu to COVID-19. The Flu has also been paying attention to this, and it has some thoughts. “I’m tired of all […]

A conversation with a serial non-profit creator
HumorNovember 10, 2020
There is no better clout than generosity Second-year Chris Ryan is known as “The Non-Profit Guy” around campus and this is a title that he wears with pride. He has created 11 different non-profits since he was a senior in high school. Beaming, Ryan tells me his love of founding non-profits began when his sister’s […]

Chancellor Gary May needs to start using clickbait in his emails
HumorNovember 10, 2020
If Logan Paul can get millions of views, so can Chancellor Gary May When I first opened an email from Chancellor Gary May, I vowed to never open another one again. The vague subject lines, lack of emojis and blocks of text gave me a headache. Since then, I made my mom read and summarize […]

Self-proclaimed anarcho-communist Kayleigh Smith rushes Sigma Numa Numa despite ideological conflicts
HumorNovember 9, 2020
Peter Kropotkin would TOTALLY be a SigEp Sigma Numa Numa, a well-established sorority at UC Davis, recently had the pleasure of virtually welcoming its 2020 bid class. Among the flurry of smiling faces and feather boas is Kayleigh Smith, a first-year, who hopes that her admission to the top-ranked sorority will provide her with future […]

Chancellor Gary May’s latest email
HumorNovember 9, 2020
Can he really say that? In this series of investigative pieces, The Aggie investigates how the COVID-19 crisis has affected individual lives in our community. The following letter was posted via Chancellor May’s UC Davis page, then abruptly deleted from all records. Here at The Aggie, we obtained the letter from an unnamed source. Here […]

The toilet paper panic, a recap
HumorNovember 4, 2020
What were we thinking? Now that we are seven horrid months into the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to revisit one of the strangest occurrences that happened at the outset of this saga. It’s an event that has been overshadowed by all the other evidence that we are in a sadistically-run Sims game. It’s time to […]

Why referring to UC Davis as ‘UCD’ is incredibly offensive
HumorNovember 3, 2020
A PSA to UC Students from the Davis community Three months ago, the UC community on Reddit was sent into a frenzy when a UC Berkeley student requested all UC schools not refer to their school using its initials, “UCB,” as it cheapens the incredible prestige associated with Berkeley. As an incoming UC Davis student, […]

My terrifying election predi—No I’m serious! Why am I in the humor section?!
HumorNovember 2, 2020
This is not a humor article! Well, Election Day is almost here. The news reports are aflutter with ledes like, “soon, we will know who America’s next president is.” This is misleading because we already know who the next president will be, and his name is Donald Trump. ***(Editor: “this is hilarious! can you imagine […]

Senator Mike Lee clarifies controversial Tweets by ignoring their context
HumorOctober 30, 2020
The Utah Republican says “Democracy isn’t the objective” in America, so we got his opinions on the actual objectives of some other misunderstood topics A few weeks ago, Utah’s Republican Senator Mike Lee set off a controversy by tweeting, “We’re not a democracy.” He followed-up this tweet a few hours later, posting, “Democracy isn’t the […]

UC needs to consider these alternates for the SAT, ACT
HumorOctober 28, 2020
They’re not much better, but hey, why not? Last month a judge ruled that UC must suspend SAT and ACT scores in admissions and scholarship decisions. Apparently, there is little data to show that standardized tests are an effective way to predict academic success in college. Yes, you heard that right; the ability to correctly […]

In case you missed it, here’s what happened at last week’s presidential debate
HumorOctober 27, 2020
The moderator was incredibly good and there was actually some substantive debate, but the candidates repeated certain phrases and sentence structures WAY TOO MANY TIMES Trump: If you look at what’s happening we have amazing testing that gives us more cases. 47 years, he’s been there 47 years and he hasn’t done anything! Why didn’t […]

