Opinion

Dear ladies, gentsand lady-gents, I’m going to assume if you read this column last week that you deduced two things. The first is that I look like a tweaker in my picture. The second is that I’m a tad lacking in the common sense department. You see, I seem to have little of it.

My name is Chrys Komodikis, and I am a student at the Graduate School of Management here on campus. I am writing to you as a passionate supporter of Proposition 1A – a vote on whether to issue a $10 billion bond to finance a modern high-speed rail system through California.

Californians have the opportunity to do something truly visionary at the ballot box on Nov. 4. Proposition 1A authorizes the state to sell $9.95 billion in bonds to fund planning and initial construction of a high speed passenger rail system from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The measure allows the bond proceeds to supply only one-half of construction costs and requires the government to seek federal and private funds for the rest. Future bond measures would extend the network to Sacramento and San Diego.

Same-sex marriage has been legal in California since May, when the state’s highest court found that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.   Gay marriage opponents immediately started gathering signatures and got Proposition 8 on the ballot. Prop 8 would amend the state constitution by eliminating the right of these couples to marry.   […]

Ah,box-checking day.Nov.4is lurking just around the bend and,as the leaves turn,American voters are preparing themselves to march to their polling places and take that final Pepsi challenge.Another four years are behind us and it’s time again to exercise our privilege aswhite landowning Christians free and equal citizens to make our voices heard in the selection of our representative government.Yessir,you can positivelysmell the Red,White and Blue® inthe air.

After all my huff and puff about world peace last week,I am incrediblydiscouraged to have to write this.I hope a lot of you on campus have heard of Nonie Darwish,the speaker that Davis College Republicans have booked to speak tonight.I’ll keep this simple:She is an Egyptian woman who used to be Muslim,had a bad experience with Islam and now is traveling the country warning people on college campuses about Muslim Student Associations “recruitingterrorists;” jumping on the hater-bandwagon…as I always say.

First off,I’d like to apologize for that awful picture of me that appeared last week.I asked to run the same mug from the previous year until I could take a new one,but to my surprise they dug up some random old picture that gave you an intimate look at my flaring nostrils.I’m sorry if any seizures occurred,but lo‘ and behold,the situation has been fixed.And look,bangs!

This summer while interning forSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington,D.C.one of my main duties was answering the thousands of phone calls from people from all over the country.The phone calls ranged from a sweet-sounding old lady who assured me that global warming was just God’s way of hugging us closer to a manwhospent20minutes trying to convince me that the Soviet Union had not actually collapsed.

Last Thursday,I had the distinct pleasure of opening a copy of The California Aggie and seeing a letter to the editor from Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi commenting on my previous column.

The Times,they are a-changin‘.TheLos Angeles Times‘ parent company,Tribune Company,announced Friday that it was borrowing$250million in credit due to the current financial crisis.The New York Times‘ revenue is down12percent.

When I first set out on“Mission:List,“ this week‘s column‘s item was most certainly not included.It‘s not a list entry I would recommend anyone else add to his/her own personal list,nor was it an experience I‘d like to repeat.

Come one, come all! Welcome to another year of Aggie columnists. We’ll be here for your bus rides in the pre-dawn hours, your chemistry classes in the morning and all that extra time you need to kill between classes after you’ve finished the Sudoku.