American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Safety First

Too often folks who inject lots of drugs are written off completely. Sharing needles is a massive problems that leads to all sorts of diseases being passed including AIDS. This brings us to Exchange Supplies:
Exchange Supplies is a social enterprise set up by drug workers to supply drug services and needle exchanges with quality [...]

Sanyo-Bussan International Lifesaving Cup

Sorry for the lack of posts recently, when I have a cold all I want to do is crawl up in bed and sleep. For the most part that is what I did all day yesterday, but now I am back, well for the day at least, next week I will be in Tokyo for [...]

When Wall Street hurts the poor, it hurts itself

In the recent years leading up the subprime crisis it seemed as if the fortunes of the rich and poor had taken divergent paths. In hindsight, the fates of the rich and poor were inexorably linked.

Jealous

Apparently, at the beginning of the month the NY Times ran an article. It appears to have run in the magazine section, and I am going to guess it was on vacation time and, quite possibly, work habits of folks from various countries. Unfortunately I didn’t see it and don’t really know.
What I did see [...]

Look A Little Closer

I found this site with some really fun photos on it combining food and little miniature people. I feel like I have come across these photos before and really liked them. The only reason I am hesitant to post this now is that I am pretty sure the first time around when I saw these [...]

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