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Why you mad?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 13, 2011The saddest part about all of this? Not a sliver of surprise was felt by any of us.
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Parking downtown should stay free
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 13, 2011Saturday night at the club downtown could get a bit more expensive in the near future, and contrary to the city's hopes, we don't think that's going to attract more customers.
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Lost in the sauce: guy walks into the bar
By BILL O'CONNOR< | July 11, 2011I've been back from Vietnam for seven years. I spent the first three in a drunken New Orleans haze. The next four, I drove for Hoffa's Teamsters.
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ABC Family ad blitz: accio facepalm
By Shea Ford | July 11, 2011For those who are living in a cave and are unaware, the final Harry Potter film debuts in U.S. theaters Friday.
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That ain't right
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 11, 2011When a 168-year-old British tabloid read by millions goes down in the flames, we have to say something.
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Unity among Americans should last longer than one day in July
July 6, 2011On Monday, we recognized a day of legendary bravery in an onerous battle for life, liberty and happiness. We put aside our political persuasions and forgot our delusions of enmity. For a brief moment, we all had long hair, figuratively sang "Imagine" by John Lennon and did indeed "live as one."
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A pissing contest like no other: My encounter with Rick Scott
By C.J. Pruner | July 6, 2011Last Thursday, my good buddy/managing editor/the-man-who-has-the-sense-to-never-let-me-run-a-Muhammad-cartoon Joey Flechas and I drove down to St. Petersburg for the annual Florida Press Association convention. For the few of you who don't religiously follow the inner workings of Florida print media, the FPA convention is where a bunch of godless leftist journos/"media academics"/anyone with a hard-on for the written word from all across the state gather at some palace of a hotel, dress up in outfits picked out by Stevie Wonder and try to outstroke each other in rhetorical masturbation. Essentially, it's like the Republican National Convention with the exception that there's a limit to how much free booze you can guzzle.
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Casey Anthony trial doesn't make you a legal expert
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 6, 2011If you're looking for some sense of validation as to whether your expert hunch that Casey Marie Anthony is innocent or guilty, seek life elsewhere.
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Lost in the sauce: getting bug-eyed in the opium jungles
By BILL O'CONNOR< | July 4, 2011My Thai friend Sith starts a lot of sentences with "Maybe America have, maybe America no have."
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U.S. needs a new red-headed stepchild
By Shea Ford | July 4, 2011I love America, and so should you.
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Anyone can be a patriot
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 4, 2011American Atheists, a more-than-40-year-old organization that advocates for the civil liberties of atheists and the complete separation of church and state, flew aerial banners over several public locations across the country Monday that read phrases such as "God-LESS America" or "Atheism is Patriotic."At beaches and parks in 26 states, people saw these words fly across the sky.
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Debt debate goes beyond now or next November
By The Alligator Editorial Board | July 4, 2011On CBS' "Face the Nation" this past Sunday, John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio, did something that, for a politician on the Sunday political talk circuit, seems anathema: say something that not only sounds human but also makes sense.
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Flawless victory
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 29, 2011Newspapers have had a centuries-long love affair with the First Amendment. Exercising our freedom of speech, after all, is our bread and butter. Whenever our favorite section of the Bill of Rights gets a shout-out in the news, we'd be stupid not to throw our two cents in.
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She may have her faults, but America still kicks ass
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 29, 2011This Monday, millions of Americans will gather in backyards, ballparks, churches and parade routes all across the country to celebrate the 235th birthday of the United States. For many of us, the Fourth acts as just another excuse to jet-stream unholy amounts of ethanol into our systems as we butcher another Lee Greenwood song and blow shit up. And why shouldn't we? It's American.
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Unite Party uses 'system' to rule
By Jonathan Ossip | June 29, 2011In summer of 2008, I walked into my first Senate meeting. Fresh out of high school, I thought I had found a good place to get involved. What I found instead was a disaster.
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Life lessons from a bad day and empty gas tank
June 29, 2011It's 6 p.m., and I'm on my way to the gym on a typical weeknight (I had tanned and done laundry earlier). I know there is nothing too peculiar about this, but there is one minor detail I should mention: My car had been on its reserve gasoline for a bit. By "a bit," I mean two days. Forgive me, but I hadn't time to stop for gas. Such is the life of a college student. And - I swear to you - the fuel gauge wasn't that low.
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First among equals
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 27, 2011There are many ways we can describe the New York Senate's decision to pass a measure making same-sex marriage legal. We could lay out rustic philosophical arguments as to why such a move for our country was the prudent and rational thing to do. We could also build a 50-foot-tall "straw man" adorned in the ever-patented relics of religious bigotry and set it ablaze with bumper-sticker slogans and rally cries.
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The time has come for GTL to GTFO
By Shea Ford | June 27, 2011I hate "Jersey Shore."
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To our new pals; Welcome to the big leagues baby Gators
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 27, 2011For some of you, it's part two of a sweltering summer in Gainesville. Halftime is over. Hang in there and drink a lot of water. Summer B is a little more lively around here.
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Lost in the sauce: Swimming to maturity
By BILL O'CONNOR< | June 27, 2011We pretended nothing happened. Five of us shared whiskey and a joint and just stared at the fire.
