American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

OMG!

You can’t make this up!
The NYTimes reports on the large peaceful uprising in Najaf.
The story includes this photo caption:
Col. Steven Boylan, an American military spokesman and aide to the commander of all American forces in Iraq, praised the peaceful nature of the demonstration, saying Iraqis “could not have done this four years ago,” the [...]

Uncle Ben

So, it was recently announced that everyone’s favorite rice icon, Uncle Ben, has a new title.
No longer is he just the face on the box, representing (according to Wikipedia) “… a domestic servant, in the Aunt Jemima tradition, or perhaps a Chicago maitre d’hotel, Frank Brown.” Uncle Ben is now the “Chairman” take a virtual [...]

I can imagine few things more terrifying-

So, this is my first post here. I was originally going to write a rant about the state of U.S. Consumer Culture. Instead I am going to just post a link that I think speaks for itself:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/giant_laserfiri.html

Government Web Sites Need Sleep, Too.

The Government: Working for you (unless it’s not).
There is a database maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission that goes to sleep at night. If you visit this site after a certain hour the page reads: “Investment Adviser Public Disclosure is currently unavailable. Please revisit the site during operational hours.”
I’m glad that the database [...]

Soulless Radio Shack fires 400 employees by email

Radio Shack sent emails to 400 workers notifying them that their jobs had been eliminated. “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress,” read an e-mail delivered Tuesday morning. “Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated.”
Firing staff by email takes the image of the soulless corporation to a whole new level. I’ll [...]

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