Jordan Pokross

February 26, 2009

Solar-Loans: A Borrowing Solution

By Jordan Pokross

I come bearing little grievance toward our current credit crisis. It is what it is, as they say, and the past cannot be undone. We must now study the constriction in lending through the eyes of the banker and the borrowe...

January 29, 2009

Capitalism Not All To Blame for Economic Woes

By Jordan Pokross

At this moment - at the culmination of an age of unfettered capitalism and the dawn of an era of government activism - we are begged to consider the constitution of our financial markets. I think we can all agree that ca...

January 15, 2009

Energy’s Sunny Future

By Jordan Pokross

Part of Barack Obama's stimulus plan will certainly focus on financing alternative energy projects, probably the building of windmills, geothermal power plants and such. And as Orwellian the task of semi-eternal and labo...

October 22, 2008

Fruit Trees: Food for the Starving Co-ed

By Jordan Pokross

So, have you ever found yourself in this conundrum? You're walking around campus between classes and hunger strikes. You have no Snickers bars, and you have no time to feast. You know the Arbor line is going to be too lo...

October 8, 2008

Obama Gives America a High

By Jordan Pokross

If there's one thing that nobody's talked about this election cycle, it's weed.

June 2, 2008

Grand Old Party Teeters on Collapse

By Jordan Pokross

What is it about Republicans that drives them to pick the wrong side of every issue?

May 22, 2008

War Crime Charges Beckon for Bushie

By Jordan Pokross

Here's a hypothetical situation: Obama is elected president by a sweeping majority in November after a long and arduous campaign against John McCain. George W. Bush quietly leaves office and Obama is sworn in.

April 29, 2008

Graduating Class Faces Positive and Negative Challenges

By Jordan Pokross

The world is a-changin', if you didn't notice. Everyday there's a story of political insurrection in some distant country.

April 25, 2008

Dude Dishes On Respect for Women

By Jordan Pokross

So Saturday afternoon, my friend Chad and I were having a conversation about the ladies of Isla Vista. It was a "walk and talk" around I.V., so the subject matter of our conversation was all around us: hot, bikini-clad b...

February 8, 2008

Globalized Economy Benefits Americans

By Jordan Pokross

People are always asking me, "Jordan, what's globalization about? How will it affect me? Will I be outsourced?"

January 25, 2008

Swap Beer for Brainy Conversation

By Jordan Pokross

All too frequently do I attend parties in Isla Vista where I leave disappointed. Not for the most common reasons - a tapped keg, a shortage of ladies, a persistently obnoxious doorman or an excruciatingly long beer pong ...