American Athens

Cracked Online’s look inside the mind of corporate America. (Here)

Wikitravel recommends 4  “uniquely American things that as a (foreign) traveler you will not want to miss.”

United States national debt (1938- Present) 

Cartoon examining why the VT massacre happened.

Hands down the stupidest thing I have seen in the past year. 

Will Farrell’s new NFL draft video.

The World’s cleanest cities. 

I do not want to be an alarmist about this one, but this whole “missing bee” thing sounds as if it could be a really big deal. In the last few months, I’ve heard reports about the bees on NPR, CNN, and even Real Time with Bill Maher who passed along the link some scientists […]

Vonnegut claimed to have run a car dealership called “Saab Cape Cod” in West Barnstable, MA, but failed to sell the Swedish two-stroke SAAB cars, and went into bankruptcy. He jokingly said that this may be the reason he has never received a Nobel Prize (wiki).
Kurt Vonnegut profoundly changed my perception of the world at […]