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Santa Barbara is full of Serious People with Serious Problems. If they aren’t heroically defending the city’s Mediterranean architecture, or battling against City Council’s perpetual War on Cars, they are fretting about the lack of civility shown by today’s youths and marvelling at the impudence of the homeless population’s continued existence.
Santa Barbara Bullshit treats all these concerns with the deadly earnestness they deserve.
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No Thanks
A new crop of #tcot artists are working in new digital mediums to ensure we never forget #Benghazi
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B.E.N.G.H.A.Z.I.
A new crop of #tcot artists are working in new digital mediums to ensure we never forget #Benghazi
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Is It Possible To Be Other Than A Walking Stereotype?
It is an expression we have all heard, someone is either “a glass half full … or glass half empty” kind of person.
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You Don’t Need a Time Traveler to Stop the Culture War From Ever Having Happened
One metaphor that’s everywhere these days, or at least close enough to everywhere to justify a thinkpiece about it, is the metaphor of war.
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Facts Are Good. Feelings Are Better.
Santa Barbara’s a small town, but there’s always room for another pundit.
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Feel Good About Their Bodies
Noozhawk’s J. Edgar Hoover Distinguished Visiting Professor of Feelings is back in the news with a short but insightful meditation on self-image and bodily autonomy.
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Using Sarcasm And Other Sorts Of Humor Can Make It Easier To Talk About A Painful Subject Or Just Serve As An Introduction To Some Old-Fashioned Hatred
Dear Jed A. Hendrickson, CM, AICA: Thank you for saving us from the scourge of going another week without something to make fun of in Santa Barbara.
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When In Rome Do As The Romans Do, Unless The Romans Are Ludicrously Privileged Americans
Classes begin again next week at UCSB, and nothing says “Back to School” like a local screaming “Go Back Home!” at international students.
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An Ode to Bad Odes
The Independent has a proud tradition of publishing unusual poetry, and today saw the continuation of that saga with a rhythmic meditation on “Electronic Devices.”
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A Class Analysis of Santa Barbara
Matt Mazza, Editor-in-Chief of the radical zine Santa Barbara Sentinel, has produced a trenchant essay on the class disparities in our city.
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Art Critic: How Is This House Floating?
The first (and, hopefully, last) installment of Art Critic, in which we attempt a negative definition of art by excluding everything in Santa Barbara.
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Haven’t We Done Enough For (To) Those Foreigners?
Harris Sherline continues to provide living proof that we must not mean what we say.
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The Most Terrifying Person In Santa Barbara
Spoiler Alert: it’s John Daly.
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Creating a Beast: Women’s Health and Social Noise
The idea of PMS as a great hormonal tide that washes away women’s rationality does not, of course, correspond to reality.
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Announcing Reven Steynalds’ Write-In Candidacy for Mayor
“I’ve decided to enter the race for mayor as a write-in candidate.”
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A Comedy of Errors
All publications are prone to mistakes, and the Santa Barbara View is no exception. But the View has made some major slips recently.
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Born Into Trouble
We have long been awaiting new work from Sue Ahlgren, who rose to fame in January after publishing an exhaustively-researched article in the Montecito Journal arguing for the unintuitive but apparently true claim that poor people are lazy.
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Randy Alcorn Can’t Be This Racist, So What’s Going On?
Our local writers cleverly hide their progressive politics behind superficially reactionary claims.
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What Is The Point Of A Living Wage If We Are Not Truly Alive
Harris Sherline demands more than reform. He demands revolution.
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A Slice of Journalistic Life in the Facebook Age
We are all BuzzFeed now.
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A New Argument for Moral Relativism
Today Sharon Byrne has shaken up the field with a novel argument for moral relativism.
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Why Is Paul Burri Allowed Near A Keyboard? And Other Smart Questions
Local entrepreneur, inventor, columnist, engineer, guerrilla marketer and iconoclast Paul Burri is running out of ideas.
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The Case of the Magical Magnetic Genitals
Randi Rabin, J. Edgar Hoover Distinguished Visiting Professor of Feelings at the Noozhawk College of Bullshit, today attempts to tackle a new version of the age old Problem of Friendship.
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How To Be Racist After Paula Deen
The lynching of gentle soul Paula Deen has had a chilling effect on other American racists.
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Craig Smith Is A Zombie And Should Not Be Allowed On Airplanes
As any student of anti-zombie strategy knows, the most important thing is to quickly identify and eliminate infected members of your community. Therefore I feel compelled to warn Santa Barbara residents that our own Craig Smith may be a zombie.
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Point-Counterpoint: Kill the Homeless, or Just Treat Them Like Animals?
The most pressing question for residents of our fair city is “how do we get rid of the sorts of people we don’t like?”
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Critical Thinking for Racists
Henry Schulte has taken to the pages of today’s Noozhawk to demonstrate vividly how we frequently commit fallacies in our ordinary thinking.
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A Small Business Success (Take That, Obama!)
Life has not been easy for small business owners of the Caucasian persuasion since Black Spy Barack Hussein Obama passed the Reparations Act of Reverse Racism (RARR!).
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The Freedom to Choose (A New or Used Automobile)
In a free society, everyone is able to choose how they travel: by Ford, Honda, Toyota, or any of the many fine brands of automobile that truly anyone can afford.