Author Archives: Adam Kaney

Disclaimer: I’m not really going to talk about stem cells in this column because first, I don’t know what they are; second, I’ve already been tested for them; and last, I don’t understand or care why everyone gets their knickers in a twist whenever someone mentions them. All I know about stem cells is that […]

It is my policy to always be honest with you, my readers, unless I say something totally wacky. You will notice the importance of this fact as we discuss Internet blogging in general and the recent sale of MySpace.com to NewsCorp. For those of you who have lives outside of the Internet, MySpace.com is a […]

Hey, look! My column’s at the top of the page! But there’s no time for reckless celebration. It has been brought to my attention that summer is indeed upon us, and nearly everyone on earth is partying hedonistically with exotic people at exotic locations, getting exotic venereal diseases. But if you’re like me, you’re stuck […]

The other day I was enjoying a fish burrito at our campus Rubio’s (wait … is it Rubio’s or Baja Fresh? Or La Salsa? I can never remember) in Ackerman Union when all of a sudden my ears were assaulted by a cacophonous racket that all 200 televisions thoughtfully identified as a musical group called […]

Today’s topic is professors who have poor classroom skills. But before we do that, we need a legal disclaimer: The professors (or stereotypes thereof) addressed in this column are not necessarily ones in whose classes I am enrolled this quarter, nor is it implied that I have ever taken a class involving these professors. If […]

As we are living in an uncertain, tumultuous time when the volatile situations in the Middle East have the potential to affect us all and change the course of history, I know you all have asked yourselves the controversial question: How do you spell Koran? I’ll get to that in a moment, but I should […]

Today we’re going to talk about the place of humor in a newspaper. But before we get to that, I must say, “Family Guy” is back on the air, and that is way more important than student elections, labor strikes or anything else that happened this month at UCLA. Now that I’ve gotten that out […]