American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Our Nomination for the idiot of the week: Rev. Pat Robertson

This is a partial transcript of comments made by Rev. Pat Robertson after learning of the tragic earthquakes in Haiti:
“[S]omething happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together [...]

The Insanity of Republican Neocons

This diatribe relates to THE DEATH OF ISRAEL, by DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN, published on DickMorris.com on May 24, 2009.
What aggravates me most about people like Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann is that there is no excuse for their lamentable ignorance.  But of course they aren’t ignorant, they are just venal and politically self [...]

Forgive Me Father For I Have Sinned

Not sure how we missed out on writing about this when it was in the news a week and a half ago (though I have an idea that Spitzer coverage may have over shadowed it a bit in the US), but Pope Benedict XVI’s people have announced that they felt there needed to be some [...]

Preaching About Microsoft’s ‘Homosexual Agenda”

When your previous job used to be running around all day in a pair of spandex, getting sweaty with other men and then jumping on top of them, maybe you aren’t the right person to be coming out with a strong stance against gay rights.
Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker turn reverend, Ken Hutcherson of the Antioch [...]

It’s Raining Yen

Have you seen the NY Lotto commercial with bundles of money just falling from the sky? Well, apparently that is what is happening in Japan- well, kind of.
Yahoo News reports that at an apartment building in Tokyo a number of people have discovered unmarked envelopes in their mailboxes each containing about 1.81 million yen (almost [...]

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