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More Plead For A College Football Playoff Season

More Plead For A College Football Playoff Season

It’s the endless debate in college football: To playoff or not to playoff? And if to playoff, how to playoff? Still with me? Good, because another entity has thrown its opinion into the ring and that’s the Mountain West Conference. I’ll pardon your look of bewilderment, but yes there is a Mountain West Conference.

 

USA Today reports that the of...

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Obama Wears Backwards Hat! - A Presidential Hoodlum?! - GOP - "Told Ya So!"

Obama Wears Backwards Hat! - A Presidential Hoodlum?! - GOP - "Told Ya So!"

After arriving at a gym, President Elect Barack Obama shockingly sported his favorite White Sox hat backwards. As we all know, only no good, gosh-darn, hoodlums wear their hats backwards, so the photographic evidence of Obama's secret thug-life has rightfully spread across the internet like wild-fire. He might as well have thrown up gang signs b...

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Town In Ireland Plans to Construct Hotel Named After Barack Obama

Town In Ireland Plans to Construct Hotel Named After Barack Obama

Obama Love is officially sweeping the globe, and as a testament to this fact, a village in Moneygall, Ireland is erecting a hotel that will bear the name of our president-elect.

 

That’s right; the Barack Obama Hotel will one day open its doors in Moneygall, a providence located 120km from Dublin that’s home to a tiny population of Obamanites.

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Most Obvious News of the Day: Obama Named Time's Person of the Year 2008

Most Obvious News of the Day: Obama Named Time's Person of the Year 2008

In the least shocking news ever, Time has named Obama the 2008 “Person of the Year.”
 

“He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking orders,” the Time cover story says.
 

Translation? People ****ing love this guy.
 

The magazines managing...

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Obama Recruits Yet Another Princeton Alum For His Administration

Obama Recruits Yet Another Princeton Alum For His Administration

President-elect Barack Obama’s all-star administration is filling out quite nicely, but… there are an alarming number of smug Princeton alumni entering the fold.

 

During a press conference on Monday, Obama announced that he was nominating Lisa Jackson GS ’86 to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in his Ivy-friendly administration.

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Former OTR Intern Leads Crusade Against Draconian Harvard Administration, Protests Having Finals on Inauguration Day

Former OTR Intern Leads Crusade Against Draconian Harvard Administration, Protests Having Finals on Inauguration Day

For the uninitiated (and/or our international readers), January 20th is the day President-elect Barack Obama officially completes his transition into the White House. Coincidentally, it’s also the day we kick George W.’s ass to the curb and begin the long, arduous process of burying him underneath the annals of history. Win-win!

 

On that day, m...

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Berklee College Students Mirror Obama's Grassroot Campaign-Style to Get Teachers to Inauguration

Berklee College Students Mirror Obama's Grassroot Campaign-Style to Get Teachers to Inauguration

 Who knew students could care so much?

 

When Berklee College of music students found out two of the professors, Jetro da Silva and Donna McElroy, had applied to perform at the presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama, they decided to lend a hand, MarketWatch reports.

 

The students found a video of their professors performing "America the Beau...

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Princeton Smug About Two Alumni Joining Obama's Administration

Princeton Smug About Two Alumni Joining Obama's Administration

Yesterday, Barack Obama announced that he had tapped two Princeton alumni to join his White House staff. Come January, Christopher Lu ’88 and Lisa Brown ’82 will serve as the 44th president’s cabinet secretary and staff secretary, respectively.

 

According to the Daily Princetonian, Brown previously worked as Al Gore’s legal counsel from 1999 un...

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Want To Work For Obama? Get Ready To Bare Your Soul... and Your Blog

Want To Work For Obama? Get Ready To Bare Your Soul... and Your Blog

Now that he’s president, Obama is looking to fill about 7,000 positions in the government including cabinet spots and ambassadorships. However, unlike a certain someone (*ahem* McCain *ahem*), the President-Elect is conducting at least some kind of vetting process.
 

In fact, it’s a very, very thorough vetting process. If you want to work for th...

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Cornell Alumnus Says Obama Win "Trashed" the American Dream

Cornell Alumnus Says Obama Win "Trashed" the American Dream

After John McCain’s bitter defeat last week, the Republican Party split into two. While some members of the GOP willingly conceded the night to the Democrats acknowledging that the better man won, others have continued kicking and screaming into the cold, dark night.

 

Case and point: Paul Ibrahim, a Cornell alumnus, is a member of the North Sta...

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