Updates In The Claremont Conservative's Struggles

Friends,

There is just so much to blog about this past week and I have been so sick. In any event, I will delay no longer and give you the updates.

1. Yours truly passed his drug test to get a job blogging at RedBlueAmerica.com. I sincerely encourage you to check it out. The best part of the job is that I won't be forced to carry water coolers or do any of the other backbreaking labor that characterized my ill-fated job at the Rose Institute. For future freshmen I very much recommend against taking that job. There isn't a whole of thinking that goes into it.
   
2. Steve Grove, a fellow C.M.Cer and recent graduate, got a job with YouTube.com and has been named one of the "Twelve People to Watch in 2008" by Newsweek back in December. Grove, the political director of YouTube, was responsible for the travesty that was the CNN/YouTube debate, but I won't hold that against him. As long as the talking snowmen don't make a comeback, I won't be that critical. Of course Newsweek never mentions that he's from Claremont McKenna. *grunts disapprovingly and mutters something about the liberal media* But hey, his grandparents still love him.
   
3. The Obama movement has been in full force around the Claremont McKenna campus. (So too has the Ron Paul movement.) I've seen bunches of fliers in elevators and around campus. Here's one Claremont McKenna student who gives a ringing endorsement of Obama, "He's new and modern and breaking with the past," says José Villanueva, 21, a senior at Claremont McKenna College who was quoted in Time Magazine. Like the Time piece, our own Nick Warshaw also believes the youth vote will decide this election. I, for one, will believe it when I see it. That which is new and modern isn't necessarily better.
   

More updates to come in the next week or so, but just trying to keep you up to date.