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US Border Patrol Spends Millions Billions of Dollars to Upgrade Video Technology to "Acceptable"
Mike Byhoff · 01/11/10 03:42PMAl Franken Draws Map of the United States Freehand, Remains Totally Badass
Mike Byhoff · 12/29/09 02:58PMThere Will Be a Lot of White People for a Few Extra Years
Pareene · 12/16/09 12:31PMAmerica Finally Gets a Product to Hold its Jug of Soda and Bucket of Fries: The Freedom Tray
Mike Byhoff · 12/02/09 10:43AMAre your trays simply too willing to surrender to the British Monarchy? Need a tray that will stand up and fight for your right to be a lazy fat-ass? Then this unnecessary and next-to-useless product is for you!
The Shake, Rattle, Decline and Fall of American Empire
Pareene · 11/11/09 10:17AMAmerica Reacts To Tina Brown Calling Them Stupid
Foster Kamer · 10/10/09 01:30PMOlympic Defeat: Terror Hipsters Win Battle of Chicago!
Pareene · 10/02/09 11:04AMAmerica's Commitment to Justice Helped Send Lockerbie Bomber Home
Pareene · 10/02/09 09:56AMWhat's the Matter With Arizona?
Pareene · 08/24/09 04:12PMOliver Stone To Present 'A Crazy People's History of the United States'
Pareene · 08/18/09 04:58PMData Prove Stereotypes
Pareene · 05/04/09 04:26PMAll You Have to Do to Get Famous These Days Is Have a Baby or Fourteen
Richard Lawson · 02/16/09 03:41PMPeaches Geldof's Charmed New York Life No Longer So Charmed
Richard Lawson · 02/09/09 05:02PMObama Has Lunch With Lonely Old Failures
Pareene · 01/07/09 01:55PMDon't Worry, People Still Hate America!
Richard Lawson · 11/28/08 03:51PMWe had a fun couple weeks there, congratulating ourselves for Barack Obama's historic, Liberals Save America presidential win, accepting other countries' "we're so proud of you" head nods and whatnot. It seemed like the country was back on track for a second, ready to head out into the world beloved for our bold and inspirational choice. Except, um, as it turns out, it doesn't really matter what the World thinks of us. A small, active faction of folks still hate us intensely and it doesn't matter that European people like US tourists again. Things like the current Mumbai crisis still wretchedly play out on big stages the belie their small, insidious roots.
It's Going to Be an Angry Couple Years
Pareene · 10/10/08 02:15PMThe McCain campaign is stirring up something dark and vicious in the national psyche. The economic meltdown that's killing their campaign is also aiding it's rageful death rattle—people are scared, uneasy, and increasingly pissed off. McCain rallies sound this close to turning violent. (Pictured: McCain winces slightly after an audience member calls Obama "a terrorist.") "Responsible" Republicans are weirded out. Irresponsible ones think they can stir the folks up just enough to win this sucker and then we'll all go back to being polite. Fat fucking chance. Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us of the anger of Jerry Falwell and "legitimate" right-wing attacks on activists like Dr. King:
Nation of Whiners
Pareene · 09/19/08 02:03PM"It's what America looks like, increasingly. The roads are potholed, the bridges collapsing, metro trains crash and kill as dull-eyed engineers peck text messages, airlines have become Aeroflot, dams and levees busting apart, yearlong waits to get a passport, maimed soldiers sent back to the endless war again and again, and a book-banning big-government cipher from Siberia is briefly popular for being a nasty moron." [Wonkette]
God Bless America
Richard Lawson · 08/29/08 11:36AMYet Another Show About The Increasingly Uninteresting World of the Filthy Rich
Richard Lawson · 07/03/08 02:42PMOh look. A new show about rich people. It's certainly not a new TV meme, but there's just so much of it these days. What with the Real Housewives and the Gossip Girls and the Super Sweet sixteen-year-olds. One might begin to think there was some sort of canyon-sized poverty gap growing in this country of ours. This newest entry in the genre is about a young writer who takes a job tutoring two spoiled rich heiresses and blah blah blah, people swim in money. The show is slated to be on the CW, where Gossip Girl is housed, this fall. So tune in on your non-flat television set, pour a glass of Fish Eye from a box, and feel terribly, terribly impoverished. It's a good thing poor people just aren't that interesting. A promo clip for the show awaits you after the jump.