American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

About Yesterday

You may have noticed yesterday we posted about the history of April Fools Day. I included the quote:
Every year on April 1 the unwitting, the gullible and the plain stupid are caught out by tall stories or practical jokes. But why do people play these jokes at all?
and followed that up saying I would [...]

The Power to Surprise

That is the new tagline for a proposed Kia collaboration with Nintendo. Today just seems to bringing us a number of interesting collaborations. Google and Virgin seems like the type of collaboration that could end up taking over the world (or in this case Mars). Kia and Nintendo, this one just seems like a bad [...]

Not a good day…

I was going to write about an article from the Roanoke Times (shout out to our homie at the Roanoke Times) about the history of toy guns and the new outcry being raised around the Nintendo Wii Zapper.
I even had a witty little intro about mistaking the Wii Zapper (pictured right) for a real gun [...]

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