American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Stuff white overeducated coastal Americans like

Thanks to Jason Ihle for pointing us to this site: Stuff white people like.
I think, to be specific, the site’s founders are referring (based on their posts) to stuff that college educated liberal coastal-dwelling American white people like. Not just people of pale complexion globally.
Surely the Irish (for instance) would not take kindly to [...]

Spelling names wrong gets lots of hits. Witness jamie lynn speers, britney speers

Last week, I accidentally spelled NYTimes book critic Michiko Kakutani’s name as “Michiko Kukutani” and became the second-highest ranked search on Google for that particular misspelling of her name.
As a result, I am interested to see what happens when I misspell Britney Speers and Jamie Lynn Speers.
This is an old strategy, but let’s [...]

The massive underinvestment in clean energy

From energy guru Peter Fusaro:
In fact, it can be argued that the major oil companies are now in a liquidation phase of their existence. Their reserves-to-production ratio is declining, and they are now beginning to peak as they now produce and monetize their depletable assets. Investment in a new energy future is not being pursued [...]

Rock out to 8 bits

This newest creative endeavor by Eric Skiff is a musical number written in 8 bits. Think Super Mario Brothers by way of Chemical Brothers.
A Night of Dizzy Spells
It’s quite the catchy tune!

Thank goodness for the intermediate step

A bit hokey in the execution, but funny reasoning.

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