You may not know this, but you are a smug, condescending liberal elitist. There are more appropriate names I could call you, but they wouldn’t be fit to print.
Author Archives: Adam de Jong
Three years in a row, UCLA wasn’t the best
Sitting in a Westwood apartment as the Memphis Tigers put the finishing touches on a near-perfect game against the UCLA Bruins in the national semifinal on Saturday afternoon, I was surrounded by a group of UCLA students who wore familiar looks of resignation their faces.
Clinton a poor choice for speaker
In case some of you had not heard, former President Bill Clinton will be giving the commencement speech at UCLA in June.
But why?
Winning: It’s just business as usual
PHOENIX “”mdash; Soon after he gave a slight pat on the lower back to Xavier guard Stanley Burrell, who was exiting the final game of his college career, UCLA’s Russell Westbrook walked over to the Xavier bench with only a couple of minutes left in the game.
Five years later, we are still self-righteous
Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the United States’ bombing of Baghdad, the first step in a war effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power and, ostensibly, to bring democracy to the Iraqi people.
Nader quickly becoming political dinosaur
Ralph Nader turns 74 today. By contemporary standards, that does not seem to be terribly geriatric.
Protest against Marine recruitment hurts peace efforts
If it ever escapes you why those of us in the anti-war movement in this country are portrayed as thoughtless turncoats who hate the troops, kindly turn your attention to the nonsense that has consumed Berkeley for the last few weeks.