Opinion

If you are planning to graduate in 2011 (or after), we’d like to hear from you regarding what features of the UC Davis graduation ceremony are important to you.

I was smoking an expensive cigar in my high-rise corner office, sifting through the piles of letters that accumulate on my desk. I came upon one asking for some advice. As you may remember, giving advice is only a part of what we do here at Long Industries. (The rest is sort of an import/export operation.)

Mark Twain is probably one of my favorite old dead guys. It was he who said, “I never let schooling interfere with my education.” Within this quote lies the place where the distinction between the two categories of intelligence falls in line.

Let me take you back to our younger years when life was simple. When we got to play on the jungle gym, paint with our fingers and make sticky messes.

In this era of hair extensions, Bump-Its and the Booty Pop, I’d imagine it’s difficult for those that pursue women to know what they’re actually getting. Fortunately, this isn’t a problem I have to deal with, but I feel for those that do.

We mammals are arrogant.

Twelve members of The California Aggie staff attended a Beyond the Binary event on Jan. 26 discussing Tiffany Lew’s Jan. 22 column, Rise of the Girly Men.

In the midst of the University of California and statewide budget crises, each UC campus has adopted various techniques to try and get their voices heard. Our student representatives have tried speaking to the regents, along with massive sustained protests at Berkeley and UCLA.

I hate spam. While they’re thoroughly annoying and occasionally trick me into clicking on links to black market drugs (did you know \

Police found the body of Abraham Shakespeare, who won $31 million through the lottery in 2006, in Plant City, Fla. last week.

Ask virtually anybody about what the most important part of the Constitution is and they will probably refer to the First Amendment, which gives us freedom of speech. The intensity of opinions last week, in response to Tiffany Lew’s column “The Rise of the Girly Men,” showed how the differences in beliefs can blow up and become a major issue.

Sex is a buffet. Well, that’s my theory anyway.