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Isn’t That Fabtabular
You know what we never hear about in Berkeley? Diversity. It’s just not brought up enough. So when the gay Republicans…
Wait…what?
Yeah, gay Republicans.
No, stop it. You’re trying to trick me.
Nope. They exist.
Whoa…uh. Well then.
Anyway, the pink elephants came out of the closet to bestow a new honor on Berkeley: lesbian capital of California. Stats [...]
The Horror: The Lefties Are Learning Satire
Bees again have begun to assert their dominance over the human proletariat. And by dominance, they mean showing just how angry they are about global warming. Over at Indybay, they are beginning to speak out and show just how serious they are. They’re not going to take this environmental destruction any longer!
Calling for an [...]
The Gateway to the Pacific, Behind Bars
Moving from the serious issues to the sublime, San Francisco has decided that they’re not going to handle you jumping off their landmarks anymore. You don’t like them? Well, too bad, you’re stuck walking on them!
An engineering study to test whether a suicide barrier could be built on the Golden Gate Bridge shows that [...]
Sadly, Killing Yourself Doesn’t Improve Your Grades
This story is sobering (if you have trouble logging in, use Bug Me Not). Proceed with caution.
“We have had an increasing number of students with serious mental health problems while services are lacking,” said UC Santa Barbara Vice Chancellor Michael Young, co-chairman of the Student Mental Health Committee. “We just don’t have the appropriate [...]
Vegans Can’t Procreate? Victory.
Enlightenment comes at a price, we guess. Vegans can believe all they want about the sanctity of plant growing and keeping animals out of your system, but here’s a news flash for them: Their babies will be stupider than them. Nina Planck explains their foolishness.
I was once a vegan. But well before I became pregnant, [...]
Apparently Dick Cheney Shoots Other Types of Guns
When we heard that there was a sex scandal brewing in Washington, we were all rather giddy at the prospect of finding . It’s not that we love sex scandals, nor do we think it’s anyone’s business in the first place, but hey, politicians decide to make our personal lives everyone’s business in the [...]
The Puritans Are Pleased
Nudity is not as in high demand as it used to be. It seems the naked people are completely on the ropes here.
The mother of Andrew Martinez, best known as the “Naked Guy” for his refusal to wear clothes while a student at the University of California, Berkeley, has filed a wrongful death suit in [...]
Thomas Sowell Calls for Coup D’Etat
Every now and then, human beings (even the smartest among us) say something terribly shortsighted that can come back to haunt us. We’re not sure if Stanford’s Hoover Institute conservative mainstay Thomas Sowell is longing for attention, but more frequently it seems he says something that leaves you scratching your head.
When I see [...]
Corruption Makes Us Lonely
Generally, Bears Necessity tries to avoid approaching the morass that is Washington, simply because the scene these days puts a damper in our day, and poking fun at Iraq is kind of like burying your head deep inside an anthill. That being said, we can’t resist this lovely story, considering all the Clinton headhunting that [...]
Damn, Who’s Cooking At Our Lunches Today?
So the big event today (hell, practically the only event today) in Berkeley is the rally for immigrant rights and legalization, where every person plans to walk out in less than an hour or so and get moving toward Upper Sproul, where the official rally begins–the event itself has been taking place from 7 am [...]
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