Opinion

Other than using "hella" and referencing the freeways incorrectly by forgetting to use an article, I've noticed another distinction that fuels the NorCal vs. SoCal debate: swearing. I might be living in a skewed sample since Davis seems to be the friendliest city in the world, but the NorCal crowd just doesn't use profanity as much as SoCal residents do. All the sunshine and nice beaches must make people dirty-mouthed sailors.

In the wake of labor unrest in states throughout the mideast and the midwest, I was particularly shaken by Rob Olson's Feb. 24 column titled "Useless Unions," which lambasted public service unions, blamed state workers for budget shortfalls and concluded by outrageously calling for the legal abolishment of public sector unions.

In the past few weeks, there has been some terrific debating regarding animal consumption and its effects (or supposed lack of effects) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. If anything, it has been great to see this issue brought to the forefront, as it encourages people to think more critically about such a complicated issue.

Last Thursday's ASUCD senate meeting officially marked a new beginning.

One cow-smelling day in Tercero, I returned to my dorm to find one of my floormates puzzlingly staring at a copy of The Aggie. As I peered over her shoulder, a series of strange sentences stared up at me in the "Employment" section.

We won! The Aggies finally defeated our most aggressive athletic opponent: garbage.

Summer is approaching fast and for many that means one thing: bathing suit season.

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.