Cingular is the shittiest cell phone service provider. They're lucky they're the cheapest.

It has recently come to my attention that Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter brutally murdered by Pakistani terrorists, is an Alpha Delt from the Stanford chapter of Alpha Delta Phi. For more information and to learn how to make donations in his memory, please visit www.alphadeltaphi.org.

In other news:

As many of you know, the California Patriot conservative publication at UC Berkeley was stolen, probably in reaction to its controversial article on the subject of the Chicano Nationalist group MEChA. You can read quality commenatry on the subject at Kevin's site. You can also read the offending article there as well.

It's unfortunate that the Leftist groups on campus are just as stupid, ignorant, and polemical as the conservative groups. The Patriot is a terrible publication. It's the type of publication you'd expect from a small group of students who perceive themselves as being constantly under attack; it's angry, confrontational, and sensationalistic. So why can't the Leftist groups realize this and leave them well enough alone? Allow the magazine to stand alone and deconstruct itself. By bringing attention to the magazine through these illegal and suppressive means is to legitimize their rhetoric and their cause.

That being said, the article on MEChA is in fact very well-written and informative. The author has so much verifiable information, it's unfortunate that he himself resorts to typical reactionary polemic in his article upon occasion. It cheapens what is otherwise a fascinating read.

Suppression of dialectic is intolerable, offensive, and counter-productive. Learn a better way to fight.

More to come.

It's interesting that Reno, a city that is literally open 24 hours a day, is the least interesting episode of "Insomniac," at least so far. Very strange.

For those of you interested, I'm writing a paper on Roland Barthes' theory of mythology and how he developed Karl Marx's concepts of ideology in the light of Ferdinand de Saussure's turn of the century development of semiology.

Stimulating.

Anyway, no other news. Back to class tomorrow with lots of new developments, I'm sure.

Greetings again! Cal shellacked USC today by a tidy margin and should, hopefully, finally get that symbolic nod in the AP Top 25. If only they hadn't lost that game in Washington!

I've been working on a paper on Marx, Saussure, and Barthes. It's tedious, but interesting.

Champagne brunch at ADPhi tomorrow, 11:00AM. Open party, you're all invited.

In the meantime, enjoy this.