American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

A Whole new level of being unproductive

So, I am sitting in a meeting room at a conference in Orlando ‘listening’ to a talk about checking credentials and background and what Admissions people have the right to know and reject people based upon (might be time to change my name here on the blog).
Kind of interesting, may even deserve a post of [...]

U.S. Trust on the rich

One of my peeves with the Media (capital M!) is that even though the Internet allows instant disintermediation of information, the media clings more closely to the idea that it needs to tell you things that you could read and interpret for yourself.
Hence, you’ll see a bunch of articles coming out this week (and [...]

Jobs beats Gates in conquering the world

So many things to comment on in this picture. Let’s not start with the obvious AK-47 or ask which generation the iPod is, or even ask which tribe she is from (Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia). Instead let us focus on the real questions here: Is she using a Apple or PC to load [...]

Democrats are Pansies

In 1998 President Clinton discreetly got a BJ in his office. Okay, maybe it wasn’t the best thinking on his part to do this while on the phone with some other world leaders, but hey, no one lost their life over it.
Months later, when this news leaked out, the Republicans (and folks at Fox [...]

Meeting of the Minds

Ever since I first read about it I have been a fan of the White House meeting between President Nixon and Elvis.
Here is the quick rundown:
On Dec. 21st, 1970 Elvis was on an American Airlines flight and felt it would be a good idea to write to President Nixon, telling him he wants to meet [...]

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