When all is said and done, where do you draw the line between comedy and blatant offensiveness? Here’s where I’m drawing it. The February issue of Vanity Fair Magazine which features the lovely Salma Hayek on the cover, contains an advice column titled “Ask Dame Edna.” Now, I love satire and comedy as much as the next person. Read more...

What will happen to successful black women who graduate from UCLA? Will they date and marry black men who might be on a lower educational and financial level? Read more...

The Daily Bruin’s unsigned editorials should be required to have some semblance of consistency. While last Friday’s editorial on the parking problem professed the board’s complete understanding of parking scarcity, the other editorial on the Undergraduate Student Association Council’s budget decision, which appeared right above it, was devoid of any economic sense whatsoever. Read more...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley recently announced he is concluding his investigation of the Rampart Scandal because the testimony of an officer involved in the scandal had not implicated any additional officers. Read more...

Will you participate in today’s walkout? How effective do you think it will be? Seena Samimi Fourth-year, political science “I am not necessarily pro-war, but I am also not really anti-war either. Read more...

BruinGo! penalizes drivers for services they don’t use. I’m waiting for a table at Tony Roma’s when a man, who could stand to lose twice my body weight, waddles to the door. He hands his check to the hostess, pops a courtesy mint in his mouth, and mutters to his wife, “Only one mint? That’s pretty chintzy.”Â And with a disdainful snort, he stalks out. Read more...

The threat of incurring the wrath of much of the world, the start of a major war and an irreversible cultural conflict rests on the irritability or impatience of a single man who has never shown much interest in the world or its cultures. Read more...