Culture Buzz Via Discover America, official USA travel site. I see beautiful Gays and Muslims and Asians and African-Americans and Hispanics and…did we miss anybody?
Movie Buzz Countering Isalmophobia with humor. As Jon Stewart says, “People don't notice minorities usually until either one of them has a hit song or does something horrible.”
Culture Buzz This guy showed up at Friday's carefully-controlled parliamentary elections wearing a Toby Keith t-shirt, complete with American flag and patriotic slogan. He's got, as The Atlantic's Max Fisher says, “chutzpah.”
Here's a list of some of the strangest laws and facts from across America. Facts via, images from various sources.
Politics Buzz This passage from Romney's stump speech sounds like something you might hear in a Colbert Report monologue.
Culture Buzz Seriously, guys, enough is enough. Is this what we want America's cats to represent?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059124/What-trip...
Wonder how much gas and fast food he consumed. Brian DeFrees, 25, two month road trip turned into an homage to the variety of American culture.
Culture Buzz Walking. Across America. Nate Damm is walking across America! He left his life in Lewes, DE and set out for San Francisco, CA on February 26, 2011. In a little over 7 months he's made it to the border of California and has just a few hundred miles to go. Nate is chronicling his experiences on Nate Walks America. You can also read an interview with him by Foster Huntington, who happened upon Nate while on his own pilgrimage. What an amazing adventure! (via arestlesstransplant.com)
Business Buzz I'm sensing a pattern here. I just can't quite put my finger on it…
TV Buzz Despite losing it's sterling AAA credit rating, the U.S.A is still the greatest #1 country in the world when it comes to the things that really matter.
Culture Buzz You know those times when you think of something really really awesome and you tell your friend and they look at you like a crazy person? These people didn't have that person in their life.
Sports Buzz Only one of these First Faces doesn't look like it's about to fall off due to the extreme boredom that can only be caused by watching televised soccer matches. Try to guess who had World Cup fever!
Food Buzz I love roadtrips. And food. And what better way to celebrate both than to read up on the most famous monuments of food, located at famous road trip destinations? This list is second only to me being there myself. (facts via roadsideamerica)
Culture Buzz I think we can all agree it was time to put this old hag out to pasture. (via styleite.com)
Culture Buzz USA! USA! USA! Ignore his war-mongering nature and Uncle Sam is a total badass. He could definitely be an awesome protagonist for a Quentin Tarantino film because he's definitely death proof .
Culture Buzz This is probably the least American thing I've ever seen.
Culture Buzz In honor of Memorial day, here are some tattoos of people who really love the U.S.
The Whitest Kids You Know nails it. Now, God bless the U.S.A.
Culture Buzz “If It Were My Home” is your gateway to understanding life outside your country. Did you know if you lived in Pakistan instead of the US, you would be 83% less likely to have HIV/AIDS? Some of the statistics may surprise you.
Politics Buzz It's a popular rumor among conservatives. But here's a video I shot in Pueblo, CO of then-candidate Barack Obama addressing the collapse of the housing market back in 2008; two months prior to the Presidential election. Fast forward to 3:10 for the good stuff.
The most patriotic video on the Internet not featuring a crying eagle.
Artist Matthew McKeown immortalizes this dandy bear as he charges into battle, waving Old Glory, whilst mounted upon a noble, eye-laser-shooting Abraham Lincoln. You had your day in the Royal Wedding sun, England. Now step aside while America reasserts its badassness with this sublime portrait.
http://www.slate.com/id/2292081/
Have we always been this crazy?
The shirt has holes that look like cigarette burns and is held together with safety pins. The shirt also sold out in minutes.
From 1784 to present day, Native Americans have lost a lot of land due to colonization and coercion. Straight statistics can sometime go over one's head, so here is a visual representation of what little land Native Americans own now.
Food Buzz Illustrations from The New York Times that throw into nauseating relief the average amount of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup we ingest as Americans. I can imagine Snooki caramelizing herself every night in that hot tub.