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Beneath the Surface: Nashville’s Flood of 2010
Almost completely ignored by the national media (eg. CNN’s big headline on May 3 was — and I cringe — “Catastrophic” Flood Being Ignored?, which was just an iReport), the flood destroyed thousands of...
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Peaceful Countries Do Not Celebrate Thanksgiving
"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" by Jennie A. Brownscombe (1914). Thanksgiving commemorates the successful harvest and a time the Pilgrims gathered to give thanks, sharing a feast with their Native...
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‘The Empire Strikes Back’& Others To Be Preserved By U.S. Library
Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back is to be preserved by the US Library of Congress as part of its National Film Registry: Each year, 25 “culturally” significant films are added to the registry,...
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Coca-Cola’s Secret Recipe Finally Revealed
Well, no surprise there’s no cocaine in it (it hasn’t had that “health elixir” for quite some time) but interesting to note there’s one ingredient only Coca-Cola can get — fluid extract of coca (the...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Terminator ‘Killing Machines’ Have Better Manners? (Video)
From the geniuses (check out more of their videos) at OneMinuteGalactica: Spotted via io9.com, thanks to Cyriaque Lamar for the post. The post Why Don’t Terminator ‘Killing Machines’ Have Better...
View ArticleBecause I Can: How This American Celebrates Osama Bin Laden’s Demise (Video)
Adrian Chen on Gawker got in touch with the video’s creator: I made this video because I felt like it represented a feeling many Americans shared regarding the brave and daring actions of our service...
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Americanization Training At An Indian Call Center
The most marketable skill in India today is the ability to abandon your identity and slip into someone else’s. An American spends his summer at an Indian call center, including a boot camp in which new...
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George Washington Chicken McNugget Up For Auction
Via the Des Moines Register, has the essence of America ever been better embodied by a single pocket-size object than in the case of the appearance of George Washington’s visage in this McDonald’s...
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Freedom of Choice Degree Zero
Screenshot of Taco Bell’s “Routine Republic” A. S. Hamrah writes at the Baffler: Soon there will only be two kinds of ads on broadcast TV: commercials for things that make you sick and commercials for...
View ArticleAlan Lomax: American Ethnomusicologist
Alan Lomax an ethnomusicologist, much like Bela Bartok, was responsible for the recording and preserving of American folk music in the 20th century, much of which has ceased to exist in a living form....
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A Neo-Nazi Inventor’s Gift to Childhood: Sea Monkeys
I always thought these things were really odd. Check out this article from Tamar Brott in Los Angeles Times from October, 2000. Sea Monkeys inventor Harold von Braunhut died in 2003: APART FROM THE...
View ArticleThe Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich … From Hell
Posted on This is Why You’re Fat: Thanksgiving Leftovers Sandwich: Leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, corn, cranberry sauce, mac and cheese, spinach balls, Puerto Rican rice, Brussels...
View ArticleWhy Those Hamburgers You See On TV Look So Damn Good…
A segment from the 1990 series, "Buy Me That: Kids and Advertising", created by HBO in a collaboration with Consumer Reports Television. In this clip, we'll meet a "makeup artist for food" who...
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