American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Things That Go Boom

By now you may have heard that small explosive went off in front of the Army recruiting center in Time Square during the very-early morning hours. Reading through the New York Times coverage of the event left me with a few questions about who the folks were that they interviewed to get some choice reaction [...]

Barefoot and Pregnant in the Foundry

Okay, well maybe not pregnant… Apparently the NY Times is all up in arms over the “discovery” of the conditions under which NYC manhole covers are made in India. A photo on the cover of the times (and right there to the right) shows bare foot, bare-chested, Indian men working in iron foundries producing [...]

Media Succumbs to the Wealth Effect

New York City is lousy with rich people. OK, we get it. But New York City is also lousy with blind journalists.
I realize that rich people make interesting copy, as evidenced by this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine section, which does an extremely lightweight job of analyzing their impact on the city. But what rich [...]

Torn – Another O’Reilly Cover-Up?

I am not a big Bill O’Reilly fan… Well, technically I guess that is not true. Every now and then when nothing else is on TV I like to flip to his show to get a good laugh about some ridiculous belief he has about how people in this country actually are or his take [...]

One Of Them Computing Machines

I don’t consider myself age-ist, I have plenty of friends who are old. I mean I even work for some one who is in their sixties. But, you know, with some older folks, they reach a point, well, when maybe it is time for them to retire. You notice small things, they forget little details [...]

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