American Athens is taking a leave of absence as we sort out this whole bi-coastal thing.
In the meantime, feel free to check out or even link to one of our other blogs: Anyone But Romney in 2008.
Hope to be back up again soon…
All photos courtesy of Usemycomputer.com.
From Rocknrule:
USA Ranking on Adult Literacy Scale: #9
(#1 Sweden and #2 Norway)- OECD
USA Ranking on Healthcare Quality Index: #37
(#1 France and #2 Italy)- World Health Organization 2003
USA Ranking of Student Reading Ability: #12
(#1 Finland and #2 South Korea)- OECD PISA 2003
USA Ranking of Student Problem Solving Ability: #26
(#1 South Korea and #2 Finland)- OECD PISA […]
scape·goat (skāp’gōt’)
noun.
1. One that is made to bear the blame of others.
2. Bible: A live goat over whose head Aaron confessed all the sins of the children of Israel on the Day of Atonement. The goat, symbolically bearing their sins, was then sent into the wilderness.
3.
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON - Former vice presidential aide […]
That’s right, I’m outta here. Unless something catastrophic happens between now and June 30th, after 26+ years in New England, I’m about to call somewhere else (the San Francisco Bay Area) home for a while. I’m not leaving for a job or a women, but because of numerous socio-cultural realities of the Boston area, that […]
Some of Jerry’s finer moments:
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face […]
Why do I read Curt Shilling’s blog? I don’t enjoy it. I don’t appreciate him or his politics, and I think that Boston has enough old, white, arrogant, windbags, pretending they are something else–and yet, I still read that stupid blog once and a while.
Dear Guy Brushing His Teeth At Park Street Station This […]
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 […]
I would like to take this oppertunity to announce:
Months after they first announced its inception, the official list of the 200 albums that comprise the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF) Definitive 200 list has finally been unleashed on an angry world and boy does it suck. Considered to be 200 albums that every music lover should own, it should be noted […]
During the last couple of months, through both academic work and personal exploration, I have become interested in gender identity discrimination as a human rights and social justice issue. I felt that since the local blogging community and in particular the straight, white, male, liberal blogging community has not yet taken very much interest in […]
“And there’s a steal by Bird, underneath to DJ, he lays it in.”
According to the Boston Globe:
Dennis Johnson, the star NBA guard who was part of three championship teams, died Thursday after collapsing at the end of practice. He was 52. Johnson, coach of the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, died at a […]
R.I.P. Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006). Niyazov ruled Turkmenistan as the head of state/cult of personality from 1985 until his death in December 2006. The circumstances of Niyazov’s passing has been surrounded by some media speculation, including that Niyazov had been the victim of poisoning. Some Turkmen opposition sources also claim that Niyazov died several days before […]
Today, I found myself more angry than usual at both the mass media and society in general. So, I decided to post this collection of random thoughts.
- George Will still sucks.
-Are there really people who care who the highest paid actress in Hollywood is? If you do, please stop hurting America, put down the US […]
No Thanks to Thanksgiving
By Robert Jensen
One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of […]
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