Rants
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Obamatics and the Age of Liberal Extremism
I know what you might think when you see the term “liberal extremism.” You may think I’m going to talk about the growing approval rate for socialism among millennials or something equally trite, with the word “liberal” exploding when I say the “B,” to fully and phonetically communicate my disgust. Or maybe you’ve read a…
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10 Ways to Not Get Screwed as a Liberal Arts Major
Ah, spring. Out on the quad, Frisbees are flying again. Awkward small talk about classes can happen outside, instead of in the dining hall. And, all across campus, tens of thousands of panicked seniors will be hunched over computers, scouring Craigslist for job openings. Unpaid internships may seem more appealing by the day. Likewise, living…
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Why There Are Pirates in Somalia
Reading Time: ~3 minutes In 1991, a memo was written. It was signed by Larry Summers, who would eventually go on to become the director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration, where he would mostly ignore Obama’s direct orders to reform banks. At the time of the memo, he was the Chief…
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The 3 Reasons All Young Adults Are Liberal
Reading Time: ~20 minutes Last month, I wrote a fairly innocuous piece on my Open Salon blog. To say the least, I was surprised by the waterfall-velocity at which comments flooded the article. At first, I was determined to respond to all of them, but soon gave up. What was the point of responding to a comment…
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My Advice to Republican Presidential Candidates
Remember the Tea Party? That force of sweeping outrage that brushed a whole new Congress into power? It seems that every time I turn on the television (or, come on, glance at Google News), there’s some burning hot talking point espoused by Republican presidential candidates that would successfully enflame their indigination. For relentless months, candidates…
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Getting a Concussion from the Flu Shot
Reading Time: ~3 minutes Before I start, let’s take a look the word I instinctively chose to represent “flu shot.” I chose “THE,” not the more casual and far less menacing “A.” That’s a common choice of diction when it comes to vaccines these days, whether Michelle Bachmann is saying that she met an anonymous woman whose…
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The Stratification & Marginalization of Occupy Wall St.
Reading Time: ~3 minutes I wouldn’t make the claim that I’m involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Having graduated from college a whole year ago (with a job!), I found myself standing at the window that most baby boomers and seniors are occupying – the window of sneering marginalization. As the movement failed to…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Blog Problem
Reading Time: ~3 minutes I was stunned when I first read the article on ReelSEO.com entitled “5 Video SEO Tips To Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown.” No, not because I actually found the article that rivteing – although the points were salient – but because I had never actually thought about the intricate relationship that the…
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Media, The Reality Funnel
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Did anyone else feel a kind of dull depression when the stocks first dove recently? Or an exhiliration when they seemed to rise again? Are you a stockbroker? Probably not. We’ve reached a point where the things we feel don’t have to have any impact on us whatsoever, because we instead feel…
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