Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Sports
Muschamp restoring order at UF
By MATT WATTS< | June 27, 2011Pay attention, recruits. Will Muschamp isn't playing games.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
Opinion
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.
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Tip of the cap; For those about to leave us, we salute you
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 15, 2011What a six weeks it's been.
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Yes, besides boozing, there's actually more to our town
June 15, 2011I'm about to begin a journey into a jungle. This isn't your typical jungle. Here, habitats range from indeterminate bars to packed apartments. Sustenance is in the form of ethanol. The male animals are characterized by Polos, reversed hats and the use of the word "bro."
Opinion
Turn the page
By The Alligator Editorial Board | June 15, 2011With every passing day, it becomes clearer that nothing will stop the Republican Party from living up to Jack Kennedy's "circus elephant" characterization. On the national level, a clown car full of jokers, white sepulchers and those named Michele Bachmann continue to wallow in their own intellectual feces.
Sports
No one home: Florida fans absent as baseball team makes history
By MATT WATTS | June 13, 2011The Gators won an absolutely, down-right riveting game Sunday to advance to the College World Series in back-to-back years for the first time in school history.
Opinion
Our affection for elections & erections
By Shea Ford | June 13, 2011You think he would have learned from his countless role models.
Sports
Pryor, Panda & other musings from a Mouth From the South
By JESSE SIMONTON | June 8, 2011Pryor, Panda & other musings from a Mouth From the South
