Read the new issue of the Heuristic Squelch.

Some Stanfurd fellow by the name of Bo Cowgill emailed me (and the rest of the Berkeley Bloggers).

Here's the link: www.BoCowgill.com

With a name like that, he has to be from Kentucky.... And he is!

Cheers to Squelch Editor-in-Chief Boback Ziaein for his success at ASUC date auction. I hope you and Rachel have a good time.

Anything but asparagus.

Closely following the announcement by Kevin Deenihan of his intentions to run for ASUC political office, I would like to announce my own candidacy.

I will be running for ASUC Senate on the powerful Squelch! ticket.

I'm planning a strong platform endorsing free speech and more money for publications. You can also hopefully expect women in bikinis and free soft drinks.

Vote for Dave "Do the" Duman for ASUC Senate in April 2002.

Paul Thornton, our intrepid Wednesday columnist in the Daily Cal, has the very annoying habit of self-righteously proclaiming his columns to be "hard-hitting" or even something that nobody else has written about. In this grand tough reporting tradition, Thornton wrote a column about how Berkeley Leftists aren't pragmatic and are narrow-minded.

Wow.

Really.

I'm sorry, but there are two things I read the columns for.... Well, three if you count lots and lots of sex talk.... Those things are amusing well thought out stories about Berkeley life, and well-written investigation/expose type columns about certain topics that aren't oft-discussed.

But seriously Paul, you haven't had a decent column since your second week on the job. WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING ORIGINAL! Or, at least if you're going to write a column about something trite and overdone, at least put a unique spin on it. Throw in some substantiated personal anecdotes (just making vague references to being called a "racist" doesn't count in the world of column writing) or attack the topic from a different angle.

Not to be cliche, but....

Think outside the box.