The Wake

From a media standpoint, the post-inauguration political climate is a refreshing change of pace from what were the grueling final hours of the Bush era, but that’s not to say the country’s condition has drastically improved. The fervor and momentum generated during the meteoric rise of Barack Obama set high expectations for the President and his party. And now they are at odds with each other, pushing the health care debate to take an errant left turn, which leaves us starry-eyed Americans with two inept political parties.

When George Bush left office he didn’t just leave behind a litany of foreign policy disasters and millions of crestfallen citizens who’d just been robbed at warp speed. He left behind an entire political party full of panic stricken nimrods who are now just crawling out of their …

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I’ve been working on another piece and its been taking me a while to finish, so in the meantime I thought I’d just write about a certain something thats kept me entertained for the last few days…

While Republicans and Democrats duke it out in Washington, another headline worthy exchange has been taking place within the media itself. Last week The Daily Show ran a segment about the business news networks and their clueless economic correspondents’, CNBC’s in particular. The feud began when Economic Analyst Rick Santelli was criticized for his televised tantrum on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where he denounced President Obama’s plan to assist home owners who were fucked over by their banks’ bad loans. Santelli was scheduled to appear on The Daily Show later that week but cancelled… or as …

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So as you can see, I haven’t entered anything in a while due to some technical difficulty that reached its peak a couple of weeks ago. Like many of you, I am a mac user. I purchased my 13 inch Macbook after graduating high school and it wasn’t long till I started experiencing some problems. About 4 months into the school year my screen stopped working…. completely. Fortunately, i still had the benefits of the apple care support plan, so I reported the problem and had my laptop shipped back fully repaired and free of charge within a week.

So this is where it gets frustrating. I began noticing the rapid weakening of my battery life and after a while it wasn’t able to stay on for more than an hour or so. Strangely, as my …

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The 2008 election ended in what was considered a landslide victory for the Democratic Party. With the widespread popularity of Barack Obama and them being just shy of 60 senate seats, most Republicans had finally come to terms with the fact that the party was in dire need of a makeover (I’m looking at you Chambliss!). While the GOP is in the midst of a political panic, analysts and other voices in the media continue to speculate on who’ll save the party from spiraling into political irrelevance. Perhaps former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee? There were even whispers about former Speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich running in 2012. Seeing that there’s been endless discussion surrounding the future of the party, quite a few names have been taken into consideration. Among the suggestions, the most bewildering …

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On the verge of what seems like a new day in America, we the smarter half of the population, looked forward to closing the curtain on what will be plaintively remembered as “The Bush Era”. The 2000’s arrived with a fresh lot of political screwballs ready to fuck our country up six ways from sunday. Alongside these noble decision-makers stood a wide array of doltish public figures reminding us that not quite all of the douche bags are in Washington. Just enough of them to keep you thinking twice about wearing your God Bless America sweat shirt anywhere outside of Kansas

Kanye West

When Kanye first achieved super-stardom, I gotta admit, I kinda’ liked the guy and even some of his music. It was in the …

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