American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Boomers and What They Lick

There is the old joke about a couple of men at a party watching the dog of the house as he licked his private parts.
?I wonder why he does that,? one wondered.
The other smiled and said ?Because he can.?

Albanian Rutherball

Rutherball (or ackneela if you speak Albanian) is by far and away the second most popular sport in Albania.
There will be a traveling group of professional ackneelans traveling to Wisconsin in the spring for a series of exhibition. Green Bay Packer Bret Farve is sponsoring the trip in a sort of homage to his [...]

Pornography is Big Business. And Size Does Matter.

According to stats found through Google (and remember, the Internet never lies), “Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC, CBS, and NBC (6.2 billion)”
However, for an industry with worldwide revenue of almost $60 billion, porn is less [...]

Blog Voyager: Church Marketing Sucks

I’m tired of reading the standard fare in the marketing blogosphere, so I’m looking for new and interesting options. The other day it occurred to that there are tons of blogs that focus on marketing from fun niche perspectives. It’s time to don the explorer’s cap and go out and find them.
My most recent [...]

Help McCain stop White House sponsored torture

Distill America down to one core concept and you are not left with “democracy” or “freedom.” These are derivative concepts that only have meaning in a country and in a world that absolutely protects the individual rights of citizens against the tyranny of government. America was the first to introduce a bill of individual rights [...]

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