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Sunday, April 19, 2026

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Opinion

Web site offers tips for lazy folks

So if any of you are like me, you're probably an incredibly lazy person. And I don't mean ordinary, run-of the-mill lazy - I mean you elevate it to an art form. There's nothing wrong with laziness, by the way, so don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Laziness - the desire to exert the least possible effort - has given rise to our most wonderful human ingenuities. If someone hadn't been too lazy to walk, we probably wouldn't have cars. If someone hadn't been too lazy to try and make a genuine connection with a woman, we probably wouldn't have such brilliant pick up lines as "Was your dad a baker, because your buns are out of this world!" The bottom line is that laziness keeps us sharp. Because of it we are ever-vigilant for the next thing that will make our lives easier and, in our own twisted way, richer.


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Alachua fireworks

Alachua's Hal Brady Recreation Complex was host during the city's Fourth of July celebration that saw high attendance after UF's annual fireworks show was canceled for the first time since 1990.


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Opinion

No explanation for Palin’s resignation

If resigning from a post like governor of Alaska is hailed as a potentially "brilliant strategy" for a career, the Editorial Board might as well consider Sarah Palin the Geri Halliwell of the political world - Gubernatorial Spice, if you will. Not as catchy as "Killa from Wasilla," but we've gotta keep it current.


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Opinion

UF should keep station

While I understand that our slowing economy forces even UF to make difficult cutbacks, I do not understand why the leaders of our largest employer in Alachua County have to behave like any other arrogant, big-city CEOs when considering the fates of employees. I am particularly upset about the recent treatment of the staff of WRUF.


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Alligator growth research

About 250 alligators share several greenhouses on top of Bartram hall on the UF campus for research on whether polution affects their growth.


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Opinion

War-weary Americans turn to tabloids

Sometime last week in between the earth-shattering news that Michael Jackson, the OxiClean pitchman and Farrah Fawcett had all actually died within the same cosmic time frame, two significant news items went largely unnoticed.


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Opinion

Dead celebrities don’t cease to charm

There are those rare moments that, in one fell swoop, remind us all of the ephemerality and fragility of life and, generally speaking, those moments come after a loss. We have all just experienced one of those moments - only this time it dragged on for days. In the span of one week, we lost Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. All of them American icons and, now, all of them gone.



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