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 [...]

Democrats: We Don’t Understand Free Trade

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 [...]

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!

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