Category: Now What? (Life Post-Grad)

So yesterday Mitt Romney won New Hampshire in a landslide, surprising exactly no one except for maybe Jon Huntsman’s sons. And with him now winning both Iowa and New Hampshire, it now becomes almost impossible for another candidate to beat him, especially when the race for second place is all over the place (Santorum took…

So this has less than nothing to do with life post-graduating college, but, uhhhh, well…young people watch The Daily Show. Yeah, that’s it…isn’t there some stat where most young people get their news from The Daily Show? Alright, so my bases are covered there, anyway, let’s talk about the process of getting to watch it….

Every week this column is supposed to be life after you graduate college, but a big part of that life for most people is Facebook. And I’d like to advocate this prosperous but dysfunctional idea for a company put on its big boy pants and become a real company. Now that may sound baffling to…

At this point, making fun of The Tea Party is almost like shooting fish in a barrel. EXCEPT that they are still somewhat popular in parts of the country and their popularity isn’t really fading fast enough. Besides, The Tea Party is a blanket term that doesn’t really stick to any one person or group…

R.I.P. Borders. This week the second largest book retailer in America declared bankruptcy and liquidation. Everyone expected it to scale back its store locations for months now–the smart money even said it would declare bankruptcy–but I don’t know if anyone expected it to close every single store. This is just part of a pattern of…

When my mom told me last week that she was considering getting a facebook, I knew we had reached an apex point for Facebook users. An older lady who doesn’t think privacy is a four letter word and has refused to pronounce facebook correctly for the better part of a decade (my favorites: “Facepage” “Facecook”…

People on the conservative side say Obama is taking away freedom at an alarming rate. People on the liberal side say he’s not doing enough to protect freedoms from the Tea Party or restore any of the freedoms Bush stripped away. All of which puts us in the unfortunate position of agreeing that freedom is…

I remember going to see the movie The Social Network last year and critics hailing its relevance and cutting edge themes. I guess because the world of movies is so slow to react to changing times (this Summer brings us a Conan the Barbarian remake among other franchises better left for dead) that any movie…

Two weeks ago, an event happened that is so significant it’s easy to take it for granted. Osama Bin Laden–the terrorist mastermind that ripped a hole through the comfort level of Americans almost a decade ago, and has been up to no good for much longer–is finally dead. In the 24 hour news cycle that…

By now articles saying reality TV is the downfall of Western civilization are as redundant as they are true, but there’s a phenomenon few people mention when talking about reality TV. The entire premise of the genre is that a seemingly unqualified bum off the street can rise to great heights—I pointed out that this…

The youth vote is a notoriously disappointing demographic for a politician to court. To get the them you have to risk saying things that will alienate other voters, they’re hard to fully please, and 9 times out of 10 they won’t show up to vote at all. In 2008, an astounding three quarters of people…

Since today I am putting more of a marketing push behind Working Class Economist’s feature, and it has been scientifically proven my facebook friends can only handle one serious item a day—if that—before going to something lighter or logging off completely, I am going to evaluate the different social networking sites for you and anything…

So as I mentioned yesterday, and a couple times on Twitter the big reason the site was pretty lackluster (with only a handful of new items) last week is because I was in Vegas. I don’t want to milk mentioning it to death. Although I will gladly pretend I went to get material for a…