American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Port Security

Bush no know about port sale.
Does it really matter whether this deal means Dubai will control security for our ports? If they control the ports, their personnel have access, and who is monitoring their hiring?
Does our security apparatus have the power to veto their hires if we believe unsavory elements attempt to infiltrate their presumably [...]

The VP’s Dick, er, Duck Shoot

Straight Shooter
A visibly embarrassed Dick Cheney Monday apologized to his close friend for shooting him in a bizarre hunting-related accident.
“I’m really sorry. I thought he was carrying a weapon of mass destruction,” said Cheney. “Contrary to what some of you all are saying out there, I didn’t shoot him because he was a lawyer.”
Cheney peppered [...]

It’s Like a Padded Cell On Wheels!

I don’t know what to make of it. The NY Times features a rather gratuitous story about hunger strikes as Guantanamo Bay and how the prison guards go about feeding prisoners who are near death.
Then right next to the the article they have this picture. It’s “an ad on the Web for the restraint chairs [...]

Area Man Loses Confidence in Bank of America

No, this isn’t an Onion article, though, yes, I am the area man. And I am suffering.
Bank of American has annoyed me for the last time, and now they will soon be losing me. Just how difficult is it to provide a functional money market account? I first signed up for one a year ago, [...]

Google joins the corporate pack

I must agree with the initial thesis my colleague Adam, who writes that Google Was Evil, Is Evil, and Will Be Evil. I urge him to stick to his guns, despite a polite reply to Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped, who has challenged the (clearly prevalent) viewpoint that Google has shed its (apparently gilded) [...]

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