For all its scenic beauty, the Golden Gate Bridge still needs a makeover - and a grim one, at that.
The Editorial Board has seen its share of divorces. No, not personally, but we've lived through our parents' separations or seen dozens of our friends trudge through it.
The sky is falling, and I really don't know where to turn.
Nearly 10 years ago, the Alligator printed a guest column of mine about Student Government teaching me all I needed to know in life. It was my attempt to author a scathing indictment of the corruption and shortsighted nepotism of SG back in my days at UF.
For starters, we'd like to give UF's Human Decency Now organization a thank-you-for-rationally-addressing-a-potentially-volatile-situation LAUREL.
I've been hearing it for quite some time now.
I am extremely disappointed in the quality of the Alligator this year.
The Editorial Board could not believe its collective eyes.
It only took hours to work out the bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - a deal that increased the national debt by $5 trillion. You, me and our unborn children now owe the world's lenders our own little piece of a $14 trillion debt, give or take a couple hundred billion. Here is the kicker: We didn't borrow a dime.
In response to Chairman Bryan Griffin's red-baiting comment that he doesn't want any "crazy socialist hippies" to control UF's money: Those are just the kind of people I trust with my money. Just look at what the greedy, free-market-loving capitalists did with it on Wall Street.
Who is Joe Six-Pack? It's a question I've been mulling over ever since the term came up in last week's vice presidential debate. It's pretty clear what image the phrase is supposed to conjure up in the American psyche: He's the average Joe, the hardworking member of the middle class who kicks back with a beer after a long day of work.
The Editorial Board is simply amazed by the amount of absurdities that arose from the first day of the Student Government election.
As you might have noticed, our economy isn't doing so well. Congress has just passed an enormous bailout bill worth $700 billion of taxpayer money. Along with the high price tag, the bill also gives the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve unprecedented powers over the free market.
After reading Monday's article and editorial about the hand scanner referendum, I feel a few clarifications are in order.
Many people dislike politics because it sometimes seems that people choose to launch personal attacks on one another. It is a shame that politics are being treated the same way on the UF campus.
To UF students responding to Jamie Edgerly's letter regarding her opposition to gay marriage that ran in Monday's Alligator:
In the days following the first presidential debate of the general election, I had a lot of explaining to do.
It is my first year here at UF, and I already know the horrors of Student Government elections. I asked some of my friends who had gone here if there was any way out of listening to the pointless nagging of students running for Senate, and all I got were suggestions to just avoid them. This was hardly sufficient for me, so after some investigating, I found my answer in the election codes. If you wear a "No Campaigning" sign or something to that effect, candidates are forbidden to talk to you and risk a fine if they do. With that news, I implore you all to liberate yourselves from the time-wasting politicos.
I'm sick and tired of the notion that America was founded on Christian values. In fact, the Constitution has clauses that attempt to bar any religion from entering government. Before you fall back on "In God We Trust," you should know that the phrase did not become the nation's official motto until an act of Congress in 1956.
Despite the flood of fliers, stickers and screen-printed, UF-colored T-shirts, the Alligator Editorial Board has respectfully declined its option to endorse any Student Government party for the fall election.
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