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Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates has proposed a plan to ban smoking along Telegraph and Shattuck streets, which he hopes will eliminate a large population of homeless people who loiter there. He also hopes that the potential success of this plan could prompt the city to implement a city-wide ban on smoking.  Read More »

Except they're awful to the business owners who operate their gas stations, too. 

A San Francisco gas station owner has decided that, in his final months of selling gas at a Shell station, he'll raise prices to $.70 above that of his Chevron rival across the street. 
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Perhaps that's a little disrespectful of me, but I can't help but say "good riddance" to Jerry Falwell. 

I'm sure there are people in the world who respect his contributions to Evangelical faith, but there have got to be less fundamentalist Christian ways to promote a health  Read More »

I completely forgot that I told everyone I'd share with everyone all the brilliant work that has kept me from writing brilliant posts. 

Attached you will find the works that represent a semester of content that has inspired much of my opinion expressed on this site.  Read More »

I know that seniors really want to graduate, and that the university would love to get all the hoop-la overwith, but isn't it a little anti-climactic to have most of the graduation ceremonies happen before and during finals week?

At UC Berkeley, I volunteered at the commencement ceremony for m  Read More »

In chapter 11 of a book I'm using for my Stem Cells and Society final, called "God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning" the very first quote sums up precisely what it is that I don't get about people who are passionately opinionated about something.

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If anything gets the apathetic Berkeley Hippies riled up, it's global warming. In their backyard, that is.

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Early Sunday morning, a gas tanker crashed into a guardrail on part of the East Bay's primary freeway maze, the ensuing fire of which caused the section of that overramp to melt and collapse. 

For those unfamiliar with the geographic relationship between San Francisco and the East Bay, this i  Read More »