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 being so typecast just because of their skin color.
Some of their points are really dumb, but some like #62: “Knowing what’s best for poor people” hit close to home:
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After American Madness’ veer to the left yesterday, I felt a little rebalancing was in order. As the only registered Republican on the masthead (I believe), it’s nice to see how the other side is thinking. Believe it or not, when I’m not thinking about money (GREED!), and corporations, and my investments, and war, and guns and not believing in luck, and the best way to pull on my bootstraps, I like to read. I even read the New York Times sometimes, even though my vast right wing masters at Fox News say I shouldn’t. And we all know I only do what I’m told by Fox News.
Today, I read in the Financial Times that Canada is pissed off at us because a couple of Democratic gas bags believe populism and protectionism is the surest path to economic glory. Based on the loud rhetoric, trade has taken jobs from hard working Americans (read: Ohioans) and given them to not-so-hardworking foreigners. The biggest target of their wrath is the evil North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). You know, the free trade agreement signed between Mexico, the US and Canada by one head of the Billary duo.
Both Clinton and Obama have vowed to revisit and renegotiate NAFTA once the drape measuring is done and they assume their seat on the Oval Office throne. Obama has said he “would immediately call the president of Mexico and the president of Canada (hey Barack: Canada doesn’t have a president, it has a prime minister) to try and amend NAFTA, because I think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now.”
And to think, he is the level-headed one. “We will opt out of NAFTA unless we renegotiate it and we renegotiate on terms favorable to all Americans,” sayeth Clinton. Read more »
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 see how it does. Just as an experiment. I don’t really want too many fake hits, as I’m not sure how much interest AmericanMadness will hold for people who are searching for Britney Spears and her sister.
However, we ARE called American Madness (not American Saneness) and I can think of few trends less sane in popular American culture that the popularity of Britney Spears. There are 81 million web pages devoted to her name on Google.
By contrast, Warren Buffet is referenced in only 826,000 pages. Amazing.
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 by many energy companies yet. I see the energy companies, therefore, as the buyers of the new clean energy technology, not the innovators producing them.
Read the article here.
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!
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