American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

Blowing Up Their Spot

If you haven’t yet heard (though I am not sure how you could have missed it), Iran released pictures of a missile test they just conducted. The image they released was plastered all over newspapers world wide and showed 4 missiles taking flight simultaneously. The picture came from Agence France-Presse who said that they got [...]

Bomb Iran?

Decent parody of the inspirational Obama video:

News Week

In a week where the media headlines were dominated by the Virginia Tech Massacre and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, it’s important to also not some other headlines that should be getting some attention.
The first is the one Adam posted below “Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam’s Name.” Which ranks #6 in the [...]

Iran debuts anti-Jewish expo. Does anyone care?

There is nothing like the madness of a good old anti-Semitic theocratic dictatorship to remind us that America is only slightly nuts. Sanity is often something measured by degrees and something one can only judge by observing the actions of those more crazed than oneself.
Courtesy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a ripe lunatic to be sure, [...]

Please pass the mic to Ganji

It is time for the reasonable voices in this world to rise up and be heard. It’s time for people like Akbar Ganji to take center stage. I encourage you to read the Washington Post profile of him.
Ganji has spent the last 6 years in prison, often in soletary confinement. While in prison, he engaged [...]

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