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Road Trip!

Road Trip!
Lost! the open road the sloww road
A wild ride through a dingy backcountry road somewhere in Northern California. (Nor-Cal)

Leave your life behind! While you still can, go! Get a little taste of that Kerouac road zen before your sucked head-first into the dreary misery of the 9-to-5 life. I know I did, and it was well worth it.
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IV Bike Jackings

IV Bike Jackings
a thief riding off into the distance FT: bike thievery capitol of the world a misplaced cruiser
My beloved bike standing proud (and locked) by the library before being sucked into the criminal world. (UCSB Campus, CA)

Everyone expects the occasional bike jacking in IV. In fact, its even become a bit of a game. You jack my bike I jack yours. Now, though, I'm on my third bike and I'm pissed. Gimme back my bike bitch!

The Case Against So-Cal Beaches

The Case Against So-Cal Beaches
The Case Against So-Cal Beaches paddle out, avoid the crowds The Case Against So-Cal Beaches
10,000 tourists, families, and little water-pissing kids congest Main Beach for a summer last stand. (Main Beach, Laguna Beach, CA)

I've had enough of so-cal beaches. Sure, the homes to hundreds of sun-filled memories, old surf songs, warm waters, and a bunch of gnarrllyyy dudes brahh have their quirks, but -- honestly -- is it worth it? I'll be happy to return up north to the cold-wa

The Ol' Campin' Trip

The Ol' Campin' Trip
good hikes good falls a bear a deer
Students from throughout the country congregate in the summer-warmed waters of a Sequoia river. (Dorst Creek, Sequoia Nat'l Park, CA)

Unbeknownst to many, revered by few, California's National and State parks are always ready for a good time. I got drunk with a bear.
The Stars Who Inspire Olympians

Behind every great Olympic athlete is a celebrity obsession.

Latest comment by Anonymous: Just goes to show that even Olympians listen to some crack-azz music, lol.
Milennials Read Web Comments Like the Bible

Apparently whining on message boards and blogs does work. A recent study shows that today’s self-proclaimed liberal young people believe the information provided by the comment sections on websites to be more trustworthy than the information provided by corporate pigs in

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Save Pandora Before It's Too Late!

Say it ain’t so! Pandora Radio is struggling to make ends meet due to the increasingly expensive Internet royalties it must pay as a Web radio service. Although Pandora receives one million users a day and ranks as one of the ten most popular iPhone applications, its founders have d

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ProfessoRage: an Occupational Hazard

Some professors bring the Nutty Professor to a whole new level.

UC Rejects Those Who Reject Evolution

Thanks to a federal judge's ruling, University of California officials are now free to tell applicants from creationism-teaching high schools: "We asked for science credit, not theology."

Latest comment by Anonymous: Both creationists and evolutionists contradict themselves and neither point has been proven anyway. I don't know why EITHER persist. The ruling was unneccessary and way off base.
Gardasil: One More Or Less

Gardasil has been rampant among young women wanting to protect themselves against STDs. The television commercials chanting “one less, one less” have already been embedded into everyone’s brains causing women to line up at their doctors’ doors to receive the vaccine. The commercials have a

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