Farhad Manjoo's Post-Election Guide to Killing Time/Yourself

With the election over, self sabotage guru Farhad Manjoo of Slate.com presents us with his post-election guide to time killing.  It's a truly disgusting masterpiece collection of life sapplications.  He gives self-hating bored people what they want: things they can feel little for and do a lot of nothing with.  It's a self underemployed American's favorite nightmare come true!

My main man Manjoo is right-on with the timing of this article.  Bored peoples everywhere will need something to fill The Election Gap.  You know, that hole where your soul should be that election obsession once filled.  Because this election proved to be so much more than an effective tool for deciding the leader of the free world.  It was also a fantastic opportunity to develop and fine-tune some horrible habits! 

Habits like refreshing CNN every 3 minutes instead of 5.  Like any self-sabotage expert worth his weight in unorganized browser bookmarks, Manjoo knows refreshing CNN just isn't a  sustainable time waster in the post-election news cycle.   We need fresh news we can pretend to relate to now more than ever, and Manjoo gives it to us.  Hard.   How Hard?  Jennifer Hudson hard.

Most impressive in his bag of emptiness, Manjoo recommends obsessing over the financial crisis.  Brilliant, that's something we can do nothing about, but read about, and worry!   It has the added bonus of bringing the financial crisis home in a personal way.  Because while you're fretting over the nation's shared collective debt, you're likely creating a personal financial situation you can keep all to yourself. 

But there's a lot less where that came from!  Using Manjoo's guide, I enveloped myself so fully within The Nothing that it was almost as good as being dead.