Author Archives: Oliver Lukacs

It was right at the moment when the pre-revolutionary colonists and the British Empire came to a diplomatic impasse and the only option left was a bloody civil war that I realized, in my chain-smoke-and-red-wine-driven pre-final all-night marathon cramming session, that I’m graduating after this. Finally. In the build-up to the revolution, while both sides […]

Rapidly closing in on the Tijuana border, having plowed over the 200-mile stretch of sacred Indian burial ground called Highway 5 from Los Angeles, the knuckles of the passengers whitened with fear and trembling. They neared the point of no return in their highly anticipated but grotesque treasure hunt ““ discount prescription drugs. My attorney […]

Hey, did you hear the one about the Republican shill suspected of being a gay prostitute who snuck into the White House every day for two years pretending to be a journalist? If you haven’t, then the joke’s on you. OK ““ let me start again, writes the impetuous college columnist clearing his throat in […]

Who the hell is Howard Dean? Since many of us young liberals prostrated our bodies into a human drawbridge to the White House for him in the primaries, perhaps we should re-examine the man who, as the newly crowned head of the Democratic National Committee, would be king of our hopes and dreams. And why […]

Check the label on your Nikes, your Apple computers, your UCLA sweaters. Made in China, assembled in Korea, hecho en Mexico. It may seem like just one pair of shoes, one computer and one sweater, until you multiply it by every one you’ve ever bought. Now look around. Try and find one thing in Ackerman […]

Being homeless has got to suck, especially if you’re struggling to get off the street. I’ve never been homeless, and I pray to the gods I’ll never be. But I just spent a whole night talking to people who are, were, or were on the verge. It’s hard, after such humanizing contact, to embrace any […]