American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Single Serving Wine

Wine has always been a drink that folks bought in big bottles that served a couple of drinks. Every now and then a company would produce a small bottle which had only 2 or 3 glasses worth of wine in it and some companies even produced miniature bottles (though mostly champagne as I recall) for [...]

Alligator in a Pillowcase

Sorry for such a late start to the posting today, but let’s get right into it:
I am oh so tempted to start this one discussing the urban legend of Alligators in the NYC sewer system, but that just seems like way to obvious of a choice.
We get this from 1010 Wins: A man taking an [...]

Picnic Mobs

Are you in to picnic-ing and meeting new people? If so this could be the website for you to check out: Picnicmob.org.
PicnicMob is just that, a network that connects people who like to picnic and meet new folks can sign up for “flash mob” type picnics. To try and make things work a little better [...]

On the Radio

Sitting in your cubicle all day, especially down in a basement, you don’t exactly get the best reception on the radio. This is kind of what makes internet radio such a joy. However, when you hear that new Avril Levine song for the 900th time and just can’t take it any more you can’t just [...]

It’s Raining Yen

Have you seen the NY Lotto commercial with bundles of money just falling from the sky? Well, apparently that is what is happening in Japan- well, kind of.
Yahoo News reports that at an apartment building in Tokyo a number of people have discovered unmarked envelopes in their mailboxes each containing about 1.81 million yen (almost [...]

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