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America's Wars, Ranked
Ken Layne · 05/24/13 02:30PMOn Memorial Day, Don't Let Living Veterans Steal Glory From the Dead
Ken Layne · 05/24/13 12:59PMOur New National Emblem: Bald Eagles Looting Fish Guts from Truck Bed
Cord Jefferson · 05/10/13 03:02PMThis Majestic Bird-Flipping Goddess: Also an Accused Husband-Murderer
Max Read · 05/09/13 01:00PMTeen Girl's Smashed Skull Proves Jamestown Creeps Were Cannibals
Ken Layne · 05/01/13 12:16PMJamestown was a gruesomely failed start to the English colonization of America. The people were malnourished and disease-ridden and too dumb to eat the bountiful fish and fruits all around them. Most of the settlers were dead within the first year, and in the second hungry winter of 1609-10, the starving survivors chopped open the skull of a newly dead 14-year-old girl and feasted upon her brains.
'Animals Can't Talk,' Points Out Patch Blogger
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 02/17/13 02:30PMThis Is America: Watch as Yet Another School Shooting (Literally) Interrupts Yet Another Conversation About Gun Control
Kate Bennert · 01/10/13 03:07PMVice President Joe Biden was scheduled to address the nation this afternoon about his meeting with NRA officials to discuss new gun control policies in this country—an initiative that President Obama asked him to oversee after last month's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. But before anyone could react, news broke of yet another school shooting. Fox News was practically mid-"Guns don't kill people; people kill people" when they cut away to break the news that a gunman at Taft High School in Kern County, California shot 2 people.
America Is Number One (At Obesity, STDs and Dying Young)
Taylor Berman · 01/09/13 07:57PMThe De-Tackyfication of the American Christmas Tree
Mobutu Sese Seko · 12/26/12 02:45PMIn a time older than dirt, before kids carried $500 worth of sext computers in their pockets, my mom always used to drop me off at the same place at the "snooty mall" when she did Christmas shopping. Big department stores would have a couch, grand piano and Christmas tree, and I'd sit with a book, waiting until she came back, listening to Christmas carols and the occasional wise-guy pianist playing something from Looney Tunes.
Alleged Black Friday Shoplifter Dies After Being Tackled by Walmart Employees
MTanzer · 11/25/12 05:11PMMan Brings Kid to Kmart, Leaves With Just 51-Inch TV: The Black Friday 2012 Arrest & Violence Report
Jordan Sargent · 11/23/12 01:50PMTrust No One: Violent Crime is Rising in America
Robert Kessler · 10/17/12 10:07AMSuper Cool America Does Far More Cocaine Than Any Other Nation
Cord Jefferson · 09/24/12 12:34PMBrand new Atlantic Media business publication Quartz has a post up today about the boom in Brazilian cocaine use. Apparently, in the midst of its march toward becoming one of the world's wealthiest nations, Brazil is now also one of the largest consumers of cocaine, snorting 18 percent of the global supply, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. But while we're proud of the Brazilians, America, once again, is the real victor here, with citizens who inhale nearly 37 percent of all the cocaine in the world. One and a half percent of Americans do cocaine, and the average intake per user is 42 grams a year. USA! USA! USA!
A Brief Scene From Jay-Z's Made In America Festival in Philadelphia Last Weekend
Emma Carmichael · 09/04/12 10:20AMTaco Bell: Constantly Finding New Ways to Make You Fat
Taylor Berman · 08/31/12 10:28PMBig day for gross sodas. First, there was breaking news that Diet Pepsi is faker than ever. Now comes word that Taco Bell is adding a surely horrid new drink called Mtn Dew A.M. to its breakfast menu (ed. note: when did Taco Bell get breakfast?). Mtn Dew A.M. is a combination of regular disgusting Mountain Dew with Tropicana orange juice, so maybe it's healthy? Impossible to know because a "representative for Taco Bell wasn't immediately available to provide details on the orange juice-to-soda ratio in Mtn Dew A.M." Oh well.
Revised List of Fattest States Reveals Which States Are Pretty and Cool, Which States Have Great Personalities
Caity Weaver · 08/14/12 10:08AMEnglish People Suck at Naming Kids: List of Top Baby Names Reveals No Jayden, Aiden, or Mason
Caity Weaver · 08/13/12 05:16PMThe Majority of Americans Still Don't Know Obama Is a Christian
Taylor Berman · 07/26/12 06:27PMEight out of ten Americans believe in angels. Almost five out of ten Americans are creationists. Thirty percent of Americans either disagree with or are undecided on this newfangled Declaration of Independence thing. So I guess it should come as no surprise that, after four years in office and two years on the national campaign trail, fewer than half of American voters can correctly identify President Obama's religion as Christian, according to a Pew survey.