Opinion

Every bargain hunter has a favorite time of the year: when their wallets get to loosen up a bit and they can scour both high and low for potential “steals.” Depending on the items they may be seeking, such occasions may occur at the end of the year near Christmas, around Thanksgiving (Black Friday) or […]

On the fringe Now, stop. In reading the title of this column, did you think I would be talking about sex? I won’t be. I’ll be talking about nudity, which, although may pertain to sex, is not mutually exclusive to it. I for one love to walk around in varying states of undress. Have you […]

Geekly Weekly “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” or “GitS: SAC” for short, is an animated television show that gives an unparalleled attention of detail to human consciousness on a medium that is not made up of gray matter. Whereas conscious machines — machines that think like humans — have been a topic of […]

Q: I work in food and agriculture. We’ve got a bunch of milk crates that say, “$1,500 fine, imprisonment, or both for unauthorized possession or use — Penal Code sec. 496, 565, 566.” Can they really put me in jail for taking one of these home and using it to store DVDs? We have a […]

The Anarchist Ideology is what we don’t know that we believe. This take on ideology comes from the Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek. He infamously gave the example of the toilet. German toilets are built such that the waste is clearly visible, ready to be inspected. French toilets are built such that the waste simply […]

In light of Valentine’s Day, I recently watched the appropriately hackneyed He’s Just Not That Into You. At one point, Drew Barrymore’s character complains about the struggles of modern dating: “I had this guy leave me a voicemail at work so I called him at home and then he emailed me to my Blackberry and […]

Last week, the Journalism Club released its first issue of The Davis Beat, an independent publication hoping to deliver investigative journalism and provide an alternate source of news to the campus. Editor in chief Adrian Glass-Moore and managing editor Kevin Pelstring obtained approximately $1,675 in initial funding from ASUCD’s Club Finance Council (CFC) and $150 […]

Religious donations from a tithe box at Islamic Center of Davis were stolen this past Tuesday in the middle of the night by an unknown male wearing a baseball cap with sunglasses on top. The fashion-impaired thief entered the center from an open window and drove off in a white four-door sedan. The Aggie expresses […]

On Feb. 27, there will be informational pickets of labor environmental and student activists at the Whole Foods near campus at 5 p.m., and then additional pickets outside Freeborn Hall starting at 7 p.m., in response to the hosting of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Dean Steve […]

Sandbox Politico Last week I attended a Senate meeting to thank the six who would be terming out for their service — I legitimately meant it — and then the Senate proceeded to do something so incalculably stupid I immediately wanted to take it all back. They moved into an unscheduled closed session. A closed […]

Some shake Only I would happen to catch the weirdest fucking episode of “Dexter’s Lab” while all alone at four in the morning. The universe loves to fuck with me like that. Earlier, we were in the garage getting drunk around an old television set that we had accidentally set on fire. It didn’t take […]

Memory Not too long ago, I decided to stop sleeping. I needed to get more stuff done. The recent flood of midterms and papers had something to do with it. But more than that, I was rebelling against the seven-day segments that dictate our waking consciousness. When I did sleep, I wasn’t waiting until tomorrow’s […]