American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

You know what really grinds my gears?

Articles like this one from Reuters tend to get me a bit flustered and frustrated, I have already deleted my initial rant and started over to try and focus my issues.
The article is about men who do food shopping and how they essentially can not handle the intricacies of a supermarket. Well, I am a [...]

Water Water Everywhere

The newest target by environmental activists is bottled water (“Bottled Water: No Longer Cool?”). Complaints range from water bottles adding additional litter to landfills to arguments “that the commercialization of water undermines the idea that people are entitled to safe, clean drinking water [for free].”
As companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are just filtering tap water [...]

Mouth-wateringly ridiculous

So I like to grill. In fact, somehow, over the years I have ended up with two grills in my backyard. One is for meat, the other is for other meats, or the occasional veggie burger.
I don’t really consider it going overboard. In fact, I rarely use both grills at the same time (well except [...]

Damn the Hipsters

So before checking out the website I knew it was called Give Us Back New York and immediately assumed it was some crappy Hipster site about how great New York used to be before gentrification. I am tired of that bullshit argument, especially from Hipsters who moved here 5 years ago and are nostalgic for [...]

Barely worth discussing

I stand by what I have had to say about CitySearch.
If you are censored from writing an honest review what is the point of writing at all.  Knowing that all of their reviews may not fully reflect the actual quality of the restaurant leads me to write them off.
As I have been ranting about them [...]

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