American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Lieu(tenant) Albano*

So, I was trying to keep the posts this week to a minimum. It being a holiday week, I figure a bunch of folks are just phoning it in, but with so many things just jumping out at me, some of these just write themselves.
This past weekend Reverend Billy, from the Church of Stop Shopping [...]

Mayor Mike: Master of Competence

I hope Mike Bloomberg does run for President, because then we’ll get a full accounting of his progress as Mayor. It really just holds academic interest for me, but I don’t think Mike can lay claim to very much in the end. It took a true authoritarian like Rudy Giuliani to turn Times Square into [...]

Stating the obvious

I got all excited, the NY Times had an article titled “What to Do About Wonderlust” which examined the question of jumping from a career where you have established yourself to a totally new career.
My excitement waned a bit when after reading the first question (should you even consider such a change?) the answer was [...]

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