Opinion

Once upon a time, everyone in the free world gave me a hard time for liking Avril Lavigne. Okay, look … I. Was. In. Eighth. Grade. And "Complicated" sounds kinda cute when played on the ukulele.

The Entertainment Council will be screening Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, an adult pornographic film, in the Chemistry 194 Lecture Hall tonight at 7 p.m. The XXX version of the production will be shown,

The recession sucks. Being in college, most of us will probably feel the wrath of the recession if we haven't already. Some of our families are being hit by this really hard, and I wish you all the best of luck during these times. While AIG punks are getting their million dollar bonuses, some of us are losing homes and giving up on dreams because of financial difficulties.

You have to admit, spring quarter in Davis kicks every other quarter's butt. It can bring out a joie de vivre in even the most sullen of people. The sun is shining, the flowers are in bloom and everyone seems to be smiling. No one knows quite what it is that kick-starts this change that seems to take place almost overnight, but something makes the world shine a little brighter when we get back from spring break.

On Dec. 21, 2012, the Ancient Mayans' Long Count calendar will end during the winter solstice, marking what many claim will be either the end of the world or the beginning of a new age of human prosperity.

There are some things in life you should never find yourself saying and if you do, you know that at some time or another, your life has gone off its rocker.

I've always been told that economics issues work in cycles, and while I'll be the first to admit that the complexities of fluctuation and equilibrium are far beyond my understanding, I'd venture that this belief is at least somewhat true.

When a smoke shop opened up in the historic and highly visible Anderson Bank Building on the corner of Second and G Streets this month, some Davis residents raised their eyebrows in disdain. Concerned about what some saw as thinly disguised drug paraphernalia, the Davis City Council took note and discussed the possibility of creating an ordinance that would limit the ability of smoke shops to set up in prime spaces downtown.

Science researchers across the U.S. received good news earlier this month when President Barack Obama reversed a ban preventing federal funding for stem cell research. The ban, which was put into place in 2001 by former president Bush, limited taxpayer money to the 21 lines of embryos produced before 2001.

Lately it seems like every person I encounter asks me how I feel about starting my last 10 weeks of college. Almost every person immediately assumes the head-tilt, concerned-eyes, soft-voice position and expresses their best wishes for my attempts to get a job in this economy with the job market long on demand and very short on supply.

So despite the sad, tattered, tortured state of my March Madness bracket, I've decided to keep making predictions until someone stops me. Here I go: in 10 years there will not be a major metropolitan newspaper in the U.S.

I've got four main reasons guiding my thinking here.

Over the last week, I spent a lot of time staring at my computer screen. Due to a flare-up in my arthritis, I found myself with a lot of forced relaxation. One such day, I loaded my Firefox homepage and spent six hours straight surfing the web.

Top O' the mornin' to ye, lads and lasses. Happy day before St. Patrick's Day, a holiday celebrating the lack of snakes in Ireland! That seems like an odd thing to celebrate across the world, let alone in America? Well, it's also an excuse to drink heavily.

Hollywood is dead. The shining Western beacon of filmic expression and exportable art that has defined American culture for decades has now assumed the status of a vestigial organ. Where modern film was once the most promising of artistic mediums, the relevance of Hollywood products to present and future generations has gone by the wayside. Mainstream film just doesn't matter anymore.

Super Senior,

I just got a Facebook invite to an Apr. 2 screening of Pirates II in SciLec. What the crap is going on? Is this legit?

Pee-wee Herman