Opinion

Checking out booty is what I do. In class, at the CoHo, the bars – chances are, if you’ve got a butt, I’ve checked it out. Of course, it’s not all I do, but it is one of my more unconscious, unrelenting habits.

Manolo Blahnik heels and a strappy black dress. What would your vagina wear? That red, fleshy, soft part of the female body – if it had a voice, what would it say in two words?

Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency named our very own Aggie Stadium the most sustainable college football field in the nation. It recycled or composted over 90 percent of the waste produced at an Oct. 27 home football game. While we lost the battle to Southern Alabama that night, we won the war against landfills.

Greener is better and will cost you more, too. But is it just the price tag at your local grocer, or does the green revolution have a higher cost on our planet as well?

If you use the Internet frequently (I’m talking to you, everyone!) the debate over network neutrality is the most important political issue you’ve never heard of. Simply stated, network neutrality has a dream: that one day, all internet traffic will be treated equally, regardless of content, connection or provider. Regardless of application, device or network. Net neutrality means two people with the same level of Internet access will be able to connect to each other at that level of access.

“What’s your column about?” my wife asked me the other day.

A woman at Starbucks the other day seemed surprised when I asked for the time. That’s like, so 1990s, right? With the ubiquity of cell phones these days, it’s implied that everyone can now supply that information for themselves.

What is art: A penciled scribble framed in a modern art museum or a painting of dogs playing poker? This is one question that Watson, the freaky Jeopardy-playing computer who annihilated Ken Jennings last week, cannot answer correctly.

Let’s be honest. You only really wear a fraction of the clothes you own. When you’re strapped for time, or in the middle of a fashion crisis, your favorite items extend their sleeves and pant legs to you, promising a day of comfortable banality free of any unforeseen fashion glitches. As handy as these go-to outfits are, they’re about as exciting as that leftover spaghetti in the back of your fridge.

Many students at UC Davis have sat through classroom advertisements for College Works Painting, taking up limited classroom time. Few know that College Works Painting ignores a university policy that bans advertising in classrooms without paying a fee.

If there was something I disliked more than the lack of vegetables at my elementary school at age 9, it was history. I dreaded the class daily. Mindlessly listening to my teacher drone on about the Gold Rush was aggravating. I wanted to be the student who could recite the Declaration of Independence, but alas (earwax), I couldn’t muster up enough concern for “boring old stuff.”

Tunisia, the spark. Egypt, the flame.