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Wed March 17, 2010
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(Cinematical) Interesting If you think the Captain America casting is a clusterfark, well, you're right, but so were these other movies and they turned out alright, most of them at least  (cinematical.com) (29)
(Gallup) Obvious Gallup Poll: Americans actually wanted unicorns and rainbows  (gallup.com) (44)
(YouTube) Cool Shane Magowan and the Pogues: Body of an American. Happy Saint Paddy's Day  (youtube.com) (5)
(Daily Kos) Sick Another Limbaugh-inspired craze sweeps Real America: Mocking people with Parkinsons (video)  (dailykos.com) (504)

Tue March 16, 2010
(Some Comic Book Guy) Interesting Latino Review gets a Marvel insider to give them all kinds of info on the Captain America, Thor and The Avengers movies. Caution: spoilerific  (latinoreview.com) (22)
(FilmDrunk) Obvious If this is what they've sunk to, they should just scrap the whole Captain America movie and move on  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (67)
(The Atlantic) Unlikely "Modern British cooking feels more adventurous than a lot of American cooking." Why? Do they put ancho peppers and heirloom tomatoes in their spotted dick now?  (theatlantic.com) (176)
(Toronto Sun) Scary To Americans who don't fully grasp how popular Tim Hortons is in Canada, this pretty much sums it up  (torontosun.com) (215)
(NPR) Amusing Mark Thiessen, not content with getting schooled on the Daily Show, gets his ass handed to him on NPR. Why does NPR hate America?  (npr.org) (146)

Mon March 15, 2010
(People Magazine) Strange As the new judge on "American Idol," Ellen DeGeneres is perfect for the job because "she doesn't judge people," says Portia de Rossi  (tvwatch.people.com) (30)
(The Raw Story) Obvious Fox staffers claim that America's top crybaby, Glenn Beck, tears up on cue in rehearsal  (rawstory.com) (151)
(Patriot Update) Unlikely "The media paint Tea Partiers as radical, but average Americans see through this bias" says the creator of the Dukakis/Willie Horton campaign ad  (patriotupdate.com) (284)
(WTHR) Obvious Filling out NCAA brackets will cost Americans $1.48 billion in lost productivity claims survey put out by the Department of Pulling Statistics Out of our Ass  (wthr.com) (35)

Sun March 14, 2010
(Examiner) Followup American Humanist Association pledges $20,000 for lesbian friendly prom. I said prom, not por--you've already clicked haven't you?  (examiner.com) (174)
(AFA) Ironic American Family Association: "Part of being an adult is learning to tolerate speech you don't like." Super Bowl Nipple unavailable for comment  (onenewsnow.com) (99)

Sat March 13, 2010
(Gallup) Scary This is literally why America can't have nice things  (gallup.com) (136)
(Some Idoliot) Followup And the saga of the Pants on the Ground guy continues as his record label is su...I'm sorry, he has a record label? Goddammit, America, no wonder the terrorists hate us  (digitalspy.com) (15)

Fri March 12, 2010
(AOL News) Obvious Just in case you needed more proof the Obama administration is Anti-American  (aolnews.com) (117)
(Breitbart.com) Asinine Brietbart downgrades Tom Hanks' condition from "Un-American" to "Unhinged"  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (101)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Step right up and claim your prize Cincinnati. You are the craziest city in America  (thedailybeast.com) (123)
(Washington Post) Spiffy Retail sales up again as Americans find it hard to contain their inner consumer whore  (washingtonpost.com) (17)
(Some Nazi Casting Director) Spiffy "But how can you assemble the Avengers, Captain America, if you don't have a mouth?" Hugo Weaving to play Red Skull  (worstpreviews.com) (46)
(The Raw Story) Dumbass Beck: Springsteen's 'Born in the USA' is 'anti-American,' 'propaganda'  (rawstory.com) (202)
(AOL News) Obvious Experts say that American doctors are over-testing and over-treating their patients. But how else will my kid get unlimited time on their SATs if I don't have them checked for Restless Leg Syndrome?  (aolnews.com) (190)

Thu March 11, 2010
(Salon) Obvious Americans strongly prefer Obama to Bush. That's Americans, not "Real Americans™"  (salon.com) (227)
(io9) Stupid Chris Evans and the Tron guy are now the frontrunners to portray Captain America. Well, at least we know Tron guy has a big package  (io9.com) (36)
(CNN) Sad "America's billionaires have not rebounded from the recession as strongly as other countries' billionaires." Won't somebody think of the American billionaires? Somebody???  (cnn.com) (162)

Wed March 10, 2010
(102.7 WEBN Cincinnati OH) Silly Guns N' Roses planning "secret" shows in South America. Which is good because I wouldn't want to be spotted at one of their shows either  (webn.com) (15)
(Economist) Interesting Brazil delivers $829 million kick to the American economy's groin  (economist.com) (92)
(National Review) Interesting Heroic blogger-patriot urges readers not to answer questions of race on the US Census, and to instead write in "American" and then demand that the MailCrat who delivered the census form recite the Pledge of Allegiance with you  (corner.nationalreview.com) (315)
(Yahoo) Interesting Tasmanian devil is immune to cancer, still susceptible to its natural predator...the American snark bunny  (news.yahoo.com) (23)

Tue March 09, 2010
(The Consumerist) Dumbass Bank of America forecloses upon and seizes a home that is not in foreclosure. No, this is not a repeat. Again  (consumerist.com) (58)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Windows kill up to 1 billion birds in North America each year. "I see no immediate reason why these figures would be erroneous"  (mnn.com) (236)
(Time) Interesting Many Americans say they're too tired for sex. But really, they're just not into you  (wellness.blogs.time.com) (150)
(Think Progress) Fail Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England "a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs."  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (185)
(SlashFilm) Asinine Dane Cook and the Jonas Brothers auditioned for Captain America roles? That's not even funny to joke about  (slashfilm.com) (29)
(CNN) Scary Half of Americans have less than 10K saved for retirement. Those who have more will no doubt be asked to share their pie  (money.cnn.com) (781)
(Wall Street Journal) Stupid Your papers, comrade? Bipartisan immigration reform plan proposed--national biometric ID card for all Americans  (online.wsj.com) (308)
(Washington Times) Unlikely A majority of Americans think they are less respected now than when Bush was feared by every neutral country in the world  (washingtontimes.com) (94)
(Washington Post) Obvious "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre"  (washingtonpost.com) (91)
(Some Eddie) Cool Iron Maiden announce the title of their new album. And reveal they are going on tour in North America  (nme.com) (76)
(Fox News) Interesting Prediction: Obama will ultimately win over Americans on health care. Stupid liberal FOX News reporters. Wait, what?  (foxnews.com) (207)
(Canada.com) Amusing After Microsoft survived having its corporate testicles put in vise by American and European antitrust regulators for last 15 years, here come the Canadians  (vancouversun.com) (20)

Mon March 08, 2010
(Yahoo) Spiffy Obama's regulators signal they are about to take on the most powerful companies in America, ones that maintain a chokehold on supplies of the most vital commodity in the US. No, not Big Oil; Big Food  (news.yahoo.com) (85)
(AOL News) Unlikely Al Qaida calls on US muslims to attack America seeing as how they're a little too busy dodging predator strikes and military raids to do it themselves  (aolnews.com) (294)

Sun March 07, 2010
(Seattle Times) Obvious Latin America's organic coffee growers surrender to American yuppie douchebag wannabes, who are increasingly unable to afford 40 percent markup over conventionally-grown coffee  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (26)
(CNN) Interesting American born Al Qaeda member, Adam Gadahn, may or may not have been arrested in Pakistan  (cnn.com) (110)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting Obama's health care is "a bill granting every American a free federally delivered ice cream every Sunday morning." Why do Republicans hate ice cream?  (realclearpolitics.com) (122)

Sat March 06, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious The most discriminated group in America. Is it African-Americans? Hispanics? Christians? Nope... it's the prancing poofters, of course  (news.yahoo.com) (236)
(Guardian.com) Amusing Brit tries to answer readers' burning questions about American TV cliches: do cops really eat doughnuts, how come women eat ice cream from the carton, what are those metal thingies in school hallways, and so on  (guardian.co.uk) (150)

Fri March 05, 2010
(Pew Research) Interesting 73% of Americans say Obama is not black  (pewresearch.org) (145)
(io9) Followup While we may not know who is playing Captain America or Spider-Man, we now know who is not playing them  (io9.com) (43)
(My Fox DC) Amusing Motion Picture Association of America's reasons for rating a film PG now include a smoking caterpillar  (myfoxdc.com) (79)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Palin-Americans get fired up about video by The Onion that touts Obama being caught lip-synching a speech  (dailykos.com) (218)
(Time) Unlikely In a move sure to burnish its reputation as the toughest, most hardcore branch of America's armed forces, Navy fires captain for cursing out sailors and hurting their feelings  (time.com) (295)

Thu March 04, 2010
(Some Author) Strange An American editor of an Italian journal is sued by an Israeli author for running a negative review by a German about her book which was published in the Netherlands. Obviously, the trial will be held in France  (thebigquestions.com) (53)
(ABC News) Obvious Georgetown's Austin Freeman has diabetes. Of course he does. Look at him. A fat tub, never exercises. When will Americans learn?  (abcnews.go.com) (40)
(Jacksonville.com) Obvious Fresh off not reporting Tiger Woods' mistresses and poor course etiquette, Golf Writers Association of America hopes to report about John Daly's suspension after he tweeted member's cellphone number  (jacksonville.com) (18)
(Media Matters) Obvious Bush's $760 billion tax cuts were passed via reconciliation, yet the media did not cover it like it was a gimmick, a nuclear explosion, or a forcible rape of American citizens  (mediamatters.org) (414)
(ABC News) Hero American Cancer Society casts doubt on the value of the UFIA  (abcnews.go.com) (88)

Wed March 03, 2010
(Detroit News) Obvious Teach for America volunteers have been credited by Obama's education secretary as key to huge improvements in post-Katrina New Orleans schools. Naturally, the teachers' union in Detroit is fighting it tooth and nail  (detnews.com) (63)
(Reuters) Hero What your children will learn in history class: "Single-term President Barack Obama sacrificed his second term to push Health Care through Congress for the benefit of the American people"  (reuters.com) (392)
(The Atlantic) Interesting Thanks, Congress. Toyota's now so desperate for customers it's offering 0 percent financing, and American car companies have to follow, eliminating all the interest they earn, and badly need, from financing loans  (theatlantic.com) (109)
(Pharyngula) Scary Repent Amarillo is the American Taliban come to life. Sort of like if Fred Phelps and his clan had humvees and fatigues and went to funerals ready to kill the mourners, then wrote their license plates down to harass them later  (scienceblogs.com) (306)
(BusinessWeek) Fail No, America, you are not grown up enough to have a real economy. Adam Smith's invisible hand pimp slaps you for thinking otherwise  (businessweek.com) (45)
(Contact Music) Obvious American Idol hopeful finds herself in the hospital, most likely from the shame of being on American Idol  (contactmusic.com) (54)
(The New York Times) Interesting To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Americans may have to experience gas at $7 a gallon. No comment from Al Gore, but he's looking a little nervous after hearing that  (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com) (618)

Tue March 02, 2010
(AOL News) Scary "Patriot" Groups pose a larger threat to America than Al-Qaeda ever has. This is bad news, for Bill Belichick  (aolnews.com) (155)
(Chronicle of Higher Ed) Interesting The story of the rainbow trout in America, the government welfare fish that muscled its way into the nation's coldwater streams  (chronicle.com) (111)
(The New York Times) Interesting For the past 20,000 years, human culture has been shaping our evolution. In another 20,000 years, expect future Americans to have an enormous tolerance for watery beer and bad reality shows  (nytimes.com) (51)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious Poll shows that Americans have as much faith in an economic recovery right now as they have in Buzz Aldrin winning "Dancing With the Stars"  (rasmussenreports.com) (110)
(The Atlantic) Interesting While atheists have higher IQs in America, that's not because atheists are actually smarter, but that smart people are more likely to reject the status quo in most situations, and Christianity just happens to be dominant in America  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (177)

Mon March 01, 2010
(Variety) Sad TLC won't show the Miss America pageant anymore, mostly because it's tired of showing peoples in America maps everywhere like such as our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S  (weblogs.variety.com) (58)
(Yahoo) Obvious Warren Buffett says healthcare costs are limiting America's economic growth. But what does he know, stupid liberal  (news.yahoo.com) (141)
(ABC News) Interesting Top 10 things you might not know about Matt Damon. Sadly that wasn't his voice in Team America  (abcnews.go.com) (61)
(PC Magazine) Obvious Pew report shows Americans 'graze' news. Pew Pew Pew  (pcmag.com) (51)
(sportsmediawatch) Spiffy The US/Canada game outdrew the World Series, NBA finals, and NCAA basketball finals. But yeah, Americans don't care about hockey  (sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com) (325)
(Village Voice) Hero Barack Obama extends Patriot Act for one year, liberating Americans from the burden of privacy  (blogs.villagevoice.com) (262)
(National Post) Obvious Christopher Hitchens: "For a few hours at least, the United States of America appeared to be - and actually was - a pathetic banana republic"  (network.nationalpost.com) (48)

Sun February 28, 2010
(TriCities.com) Sick American Taliban: Group hands out leaflets to women dressed "provocatively", blaming them if they get raped  (www2.tricities.com) (495)
(CNN) Interesting Doctor says Obama has high cholesterol, finally proving to the Birthers that he is American  T-Shirt  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (104)
(Mercury News) Obvious The cost of doing nothing on Health Care = America bankrupt by 2020. Republicans finally announce their candidate. Mad Max 2012  (mercurynews.com) (120)
(Crooks & Liars) Sad Listen to the background chatter cease and the room fall silent after President Obama asks health care summit attendees to consider what life is like for Americans who are not rich politicians (video)  (videocafe.crooksandliars.com) (462)
(AlterNet) Scary Why are cities across America shortening the lengths of yellow lights? One guess people, one guess  (alternet.org) (146)
(LiveLeak) Interesting "On Feb 3rd, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, in open testimony before the House intelligence committee, acknowledged that American citizens can be assassinated at our government's discretion" Ron Paul  (liveleak.com) (111)

Sat February 27, 2010
(Breitbart.com) Fail A review of The Crazies as only Breitbart can, complete with a rant on the film industry, which is "anti-American, anti-troop, anti-Bush, anti-Southern, and anti-anything that isn't elitist Blue State and all things Meterosexual"  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (124)
(Yahoo) Obvious 63% of Americans think that reality television shows have gotten worse over the past decade. The rest of us realize they pretty much sucked when they started  (news.yahoo.com) (48)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious You know why Americans are misinformed? Because the media lies to us and no one does anything about it  (crooksandliars.com) (157)
(CNN) Obvious Majority of Americans believe government is a threat to citizen rights. Tea Party on, pinkoes  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (193)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Fort Worth cops believe that gays and Mexican-Americans are more likely to be intoxicated in bars than other people  (motherjones.com) (166)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Trent Frank (R-AZ): "Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery."  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (388)

Fri February 26, 2010
(CBC) Hero After handing the American women their asses, Canadian Women's hockey team gets the gold medal in "how to celebrate your gold medal"  (cbc.ca) (253)
(CNN) Interesting 60% of Americans prefer socialism  (cnn.com) (622)

Thu February 25, 2010
(Chud) Interesting The casting for the upcoming Captain America movie, which the director said he wanted done by March 1st, has become a complete and total clusterfark  (chud.com) (84)
(NYPost) Obvious Democrats need to stop whining about GOP filibuster threats. "Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly?"  (nypost.com) (92)
(Washington Post) Interesting Poll shows that Americans think China will soon dominate the world economy, echoing polls in the 1990s when we were convinced we'd all be speaking Japanese and eating live baby octopuses  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (53)

Wed February 24, 2010
(Media Matters) Obvious Obama administration arrests, Mirandizes, prosecutes in the civilian system, gets guilty plea from a dangerous terrorist in a triumph of the American justice system. Republican response: Not a single word  (mediamatters.org) (172)
(Pew Pew Pew) Interesting Support for labor unions among Americans, which was as high as 58 percent in 2007, is down to 41 percent. A spokesman for unions is expected to respond after his break  T-Shirt  (people-press.org) (134)
(YouTube) Cool The Del-Lords, who basically started the Americana movement 25 years ago, reunite for an unannounced show in NYC. With Video Proof. Eat your heart out Uncle Tupelo  (youtube.com) (30)
(CNN) Obvious 2/3 of Americans think that the Republicans in Congress are not doing enough to cooperate with President Obama, according to an new national poll that was obviously produced by the liberal, Obama-loving media  (cnn.com) (236)
(Bloomberg) Ironic The good news is that the collapse of Europe won't affect America at all. The bad news is that it will affect America because we sell these people things. Yes, there will probably be another war. Thanks for asking  (bloomberg.com) (78)

Tue February 23, 2010
(PCWorld) Unlikely PCWorld finds AT&T has America's fastest 3G network. You submitted this from your iPhone but the connection dropped seven times  (pcworld.com) (90)
(Japan Times) Obvious Obama starts process of bringing Japan's bullet-train system to America, based on fact that it's tried-and-true technology, has never crashed, and is greener than cars. "U.S. bullet trains would probably require larger seats"  (search.japantimes.co.jp) (357)
(Fox News) Amusing Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-on'tloveamerica) caught on tape laughing at a suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited  (foxnews.com) (339)
(MSNBC) Asinine Gallup Poll: 4 in 5 Americans have 6-digit salary executive positions and supermodel girlfriends  (articles.moneycentral.msn.com) (66)
(Some Guy) Scary Judge refuses to block release of Jersey Shore DVD box set, hates America  (app.com) (21)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Steve King (R-eally loves terrorism): Terrorist attacks against government agencies are understandable because the IRS is un-American  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (174)
(Fox News) Misc Six years later and we are still talking about a 1 second look at Janet Jackson's nipple. Thanks for having your priorities straight, America  (foxnews.com) (212)
(Washington Post) Interesting Thirty-five percent of Americans don't get broadband because it's too expensive, and 20 percent of them are "worried about all the bad things that can happen if I use the Internet" even though they never clicked on 4chan  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (111)
(FilmDrunk) Obvious Stifler talks about playing Stifler again: "As much as I want to do a part like Christoph Waltz in 'Inglourious Basterds,' I did 'American Pie' three times and then versions of that in ten other movies"  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (81)
(MSNBC) Obvious Now that American Evan Lysacek won a gold medal for men's figure skating, he thought it would be a good time to let everyone know he is a dating a gymnast. A female gymnast. Not that there would be anything wrong if he wasn't  (nbcolympics.com) (71)

Mon February 22, 2010
(YouTube) Amusing Hitler reacts to the Canadian defeat by the Americans  (youtube.com) (73)
(Examiner) Video David Cross stars in "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret", a TV show so funny, you just know it won't be shown in America. Here's the first episode, in all its not-safe-for-work-language glory  (examiner.com) (135)

Sun February 21, 2010
(Washington Post) Obvious Unemployed Americans breakfasting on Egg McNothing  (washingtonpost.com) (261)
(Yahoo) Obvious Chapter 9 no longer limited to your deadbeat neighbors. Cities look for an easy way out in this great American story  (finance.yahoo.com) (62)
(Some Guy) Obvious America ranked laziest country in the wor  T-Shirt  (newser.com) (225)
(The New York Times) Amusing Own the Podium? "It looks more like American athletes are renting it for a month"  (nytimes.com) (69)
(Yahoo) Silly Canadian medalist apologizes for cheering like an American  (ca.sports.yahoo.com) (54)

Sat February 20, 2010
(Newsweek) Obvious Poll indicates that most Americans oppose Obama's health reform - until they learn what's actually in it. In other words, the wharrgarbl is working  (newsweek.com) (585)
(Yahoo) Silly American snowboarder voluntarily leaves Olympic village early after pictures surface of a kneeling woman kissing his halfpipe medal. No, that wasn't a euphemism  (sports.yahoo.com) (42)
(BBC) Fail Nigerian banks are suffering a severe credit crunch. Soon they will be sending mass emails out to long lost American, and European relatives to improve their bank routing information  (news.bbc.co.uk) (8)
(FanHouse) Interesting Fark: Hockey in danger of being removed from the Olympics due to dominance by America. Not News Anymore: It's Women's Hockey  (olympics.fanhouse.com) (73)

Fri February 19, 2010
(Wonkette) Asinine Ahhh, CPAC. Where flying planes into government buildings full of American citizens is simply hilarious  (wonkette.com) (125)
(Defense News) Spiffy American military gets its thumb drives back. U-S-B, U-S-B, U-S-B  T-Shirt  (defensenews.com) (98)
(CNNGo) Spiffy American schools are finally using math teaching methods from Asia, which involve gambling with polar bears, according to pic  (cnngo.com) (64)
(New York Daily News) Spiffy Ellen DeGeneres is demanding a $150,000 wardrobe allowance on "American Idol" so that she can import the finest flannel shirts and pantsuits the world has to offer  (nydailynews.com) (45)
(Reuters) Cool Vulture Capitalist Carl Icahn buys $2 billion casino for $105 million. Welcome to Obama's America  (reuters.com) (46)
(Yahoo) Interesting List of America's most miserable cities is in and - Whaaaa? - Detroit is not number 1?  (realestate.yahoo.com) (248)

Thu February 18, 2010
(Fox News) Hero Las Vegas mayor snubs Obama for his arrogant remarks suggesting Americans might be better off saving their money instead of investing it in blackjack, booze, bimbos and blow  (foxnews.com) (247)
(FilmDrunk) Asinine 80s movie reboots are so last year, let's do 90s movie reboots, starting with American Pie  (filmdrunk.uproxx.com) (82)
(Think Progress) Sick The top 400 families in America earned an average of $345 million in income last year, up 31% from the year before. That's half the total that the bottom 25 million Americans made  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (864)

Wed February 17, 2010
(WWSB ABC 7) Ironic Local Italian-American group puts the pressure on organizers of a mafia-themed charity fundraiser, saying it's offensive to them  (mysuncoast.com) (60)
(Yahoo) Obvious Americans don't agree on much else, but 80% of Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike, agree that the current Supreme Court is a bunch of citizen-hating corporate whores  (news.yahoo.com) (106)
(The Hollywood Reporter) Spiffy "American Idol" does to the Winter Olympics what ice dancing does to the whole concept of "sports"  (thrfeed.com) (14)
(Fox News) Asinine And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply...oh or arrogant Americans  (foxnews.com) (151)
(Contact Music) Followup Bad Lieutenant, the band formed from the ashes of New Order (minus the dickish and pompous Peter Hook) have finally gotten their visas and will tour America later this year  (contactmusic.com) (32)
(CNN) Unlikely "We don't want people interfering with the process, because that's not American."  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (87)
(LA Times) Interesting Radio program This American Life will reveal a "huge, groundbreaking investigative piece of journalism" that will only be of interest to hipsters and urbanites who can properly use the word "irony"  (latimes.com) (108)
(Telegraph) Obvious Poll: Americans are the most attractive people in the world. USA USA USA  (telegraph.co.uk) (497)
(WTOP) Followup Who killed Chandra Levy? If you answered Gary Condit, like most Americans who read the news, the man actually on trial for her murder doesn't want you on his jury  (wtop.com) (194)
(B&C.com) Sad Survey says 1/3 of Americans don't use the intertubes, pull themselves up by their bootstraps  (broadcastingcable.com) (54)

Tue February 16, 2010
(The New York Times) Interesting Americans on health care bill: Can we just scrap it and start over with a new one? White House: Yes we can  (prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com) (368)
(National Review) Interesting Why does Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison refuse to meet with the man who called him "more dangerous to American values than terrorist attacks?" What are you trying to hide Mr. Ellison?  (corner.nationalreview.com) (86)
(The Hill) Interesting Just 6 percent of Americans think the $787 billion stimulus plan created jobs, despite economists saying the streets are now overflowing with smiling widgetmakers without a care in the world  (thehill.com) (144)

Mon February 15, 2010
(Contact Music) Followup From the Don't Celebrate Too Soon Department: Paula Abdul may have left American Idol in order to be a judge on Simon Cowell's X-Factor  (contactmusic.com) (14)
(IGN) Cool Chris Pine to play Captain America? I'm sorry I can't hear you over how awesome that sounds  (movies.ign.com) (94)
(Daily Kos) Obvious Oh great. Now Obama's KIDS are endangering America  (dailykos.com) (175)
(Boston Globe) Interesting Under the miles of white powder, Bolivia has another export that should really energize Americans  (boston.com) (36)
(The Register) Interesting If you wondered why Americans are so overweight, it might be because french fries are cheaper than Prozac  (theregister.co.uk) (60)
(Some Guy) Asinine WaPo: Don't donate to Wyclef's charity. MSM: Donate to American Red Cross. ARC: We seem to have misplaced $175 million  (fwix.com) (118)
(Guardian.com) Amusing English Premier League, beloved by sport snobs for determining champion without American-style knockout postseason, plans to award final UEFA Champions League berth to winner of American-style 4-team knockout playoffs  (guardian.co.uk) (84)
(Hartford Courant) Scary Old and Busted: "Everything will go back to normal when banks lend to small businesses." New Hotness: "Business owners won't take readily available loans because they don't believe America will recover."  (courant.com) (108)

Sun February 14, 2010
(AP) Cool We're finally No. 1 in an irrelevant sport as U.S. boat wins back the America's Cup. Now if we can only win Olympic curling gold  (courier-journal.com) (46)
(Guardian.com) Sad A record 38.2 million Americans now rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Oh SNAP  (guardian.co.uk) (191)
(The New York Times) Obvious So, it turns out Wall Street didn't just fleece us hard-working Americans, they raped and pillaged half of Europe. This can only end well  (nytimes.com) (61)
(Townhall) Scary President Obama is sending coded messages to his terrorist buddies that it's safe to come and attack America. Time to start learning the Islam language  (townhall.com) (271)

Sat February 13, 2010
(Some Guy) Ironic Let's get America smoking again to fight obesity  (maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com) (139)
(Daily Kos) Sad GOP strategy: Tie up Senate to make Americans sick of Congress so they will elect more Republicans. And it just might work  (dailykos.com) (114)
(CBS News) Cool 95% of working Americans got a tax cut, but you just have to explain to them in small words  (cbsnews.com) (189)
(Fox News) Obvious New poll shows Americans consider Tea Party movement a fruitless mix of racism, conspiracy theories  (foxnews.com) (124)
(MSN) Stupid Dumbass: Bank of America sued for foreclosing on the wrong house. Asinine: The third time they've repo'ed the wrong house. Stupid: They refuse to pay for damages other than changing the locks  (articles.moneycentral.msn.com) (81)
(Starpulse) Asinine "The Hills" star Lauren Conrad has scored her second New York Times bestseller. Oh, for fark's sake America  (starpulse.com) (31)

Fri February 12, 2010
(Yahoo) Interesting Americans form a huge line at the Buffett  (finance.yahoo.com) (13)
(Yahoo) Sick Swine flu made 57 million Americans ill, and 243 million sick of hearing about it  (news.yahoo.com) (151)
(Yahoo) Obvious Captain American comic features anti-tax group that has no black members. For some reason, the Tea Party is pissed  (news.yahoo.com) (81)
(Talking Points Memo) Ironic Majority of Americans want filibuster gone, but lack filibuster proof majority  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (229)
(Some Sailor) Cool America's Cup Race 1 discussion thread  (bmworacleracing.com) (108)
(The New York Times) Asinine Poll shows that 70% of Americans support gays and lesbians in the military. However, only 59% support homosexuals in the military. Non-homosexual gay and lesbian soldiers rejoice  T-Shirt  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (233)

Thu February 11, 2010
(CNN) Interesting Why do Americans vote France the #1 place to live? (France's) tiresome bureaucracy and high taxes are outweighed by an unsurpassable quality of life, including the world's best health care  (cnn.com) (243)
(The Star Press) Obvious Remember how the Democrats in Congress would say that raising the minimum wage would help Americans and actually create jobs? Um, yeah, about that  (thestarpress.com) (180)
(Breitbart.com) Dumbass Americans are represented by two separate but equally different political parties: the democrats who advocate liberalism, and the republicans who have Michael Moriarty claiming John McCain is a secret democrat. This is his latest whargarrbl  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (46)
(pitch.com) Interesting Study reveals the ideal man of Harlequin romance readers: a jet-setting international all-American billionaire fireman  (blogs.pitch.com) (44)
(Bloomberg) Asinine America's largest companies are sitting on $1.19 trillion in cash rather than hiring new workers and spurring economic growth. Scrooge McDuck approves  (bloomberg.com) (160)
(Contact Music) Cool "Jaws" screenwriter Carl Gottlieb wins prestigious honor from the Writers Guild of America. You're gonna need a bigger mantle  (contactmusic.com) (9)
(NewsBusters) Silly Bill Nye says that denying climate change is unpatriotic. Like America cares what some guy who couldn't carry Mr. Wizard's beaker cares  (newsbusters.org) (388)
(Hollyscoop) Strange Conan O'Brien in talks to join "American Idol." Hasn't he suffered enough already?  (hollyscoop.com) (43)
(Houston Chronicle) Asinine American Airlines takes the only excessive step left in the fee wars, charging $50 extra to fill an empty seat  (chron.com) (64)

Wed February 10, 2010
(Some Guy) Interesting Dennis Kucinich urges America to adopt single-payer healthcare, quit stealing his Lucky Charms  (washingtonindependent.com) (207)

Tue February 09, 2010
(Some shower hog) Dumbass American "Family" Association claims gays showering with straights creates "hostile work environment" for military. Getting shot at apparently doesn't qualify as "hostile" enough  (afa.net) (309)

Mon February 08, 2010
(Yahoo) Sad Good News: Chrysler to spend $550 million to build a massive new car factory in North America that will create 1,200 new jobs. Bad News: Mexico is technically part of North America  (news.yahoo.com) (70)
(Some Guy) Asinine New Captain America comic focuses on hunting down racist, white male tea partiers  (publiusforum.com) (423)
(The Consumerist) Asinine 21 years of service means shiat in the new economy. Bank Of America can't stop itself from screwing even its own ex-employees on their mortgages  (consumerist.com) (59)
(Sports Media Watch) Cool It's official: Saints/Colts Super Bowl is most watched TV program in American history, dethroning finale of "M*A*S*H" with humongous 45.0 national rating  (sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com) (197)
(Pajamas Media) Asinine Why does this generation of American folk singers refuse to speak out against the things right-wing bloggers want them to speak out against?  (pajamasmedia.com) (100)
(Some Skipper) Spiffy Greatest sporting event of the year begins in just a couple hours. Yes, it's America's Cup time  (americascup.com) (25)

Sun February 07, 2010
(Chicago Tribune) Asinine Bulgarian immigrant granted US citizenship in 1981 told she has "never been an American." You'd think with looks like that, they would have given in to her  (chicagotribune.com) (188)
(LA Times) Silly Captain America's dorky outfit explained in new movie: He's now a USO performer for the troops  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (105)
(ABC News) Ironic Vancouver, British Columbia, the one place on the North American continent that actually needs lots of snow this February, is having its warmest winter since 1937 and needs snow trucked in  (abcnews.go.com) (40)

Sat February 06, 2010
(Boston Globe) Interesting Almost half of Americans believe global swine flu epidemic is over. In other news, almost half of Americans believe there was a global swine flu epidemic  (boston.com) (115)
(CNN) Scary Al-Winter launches a successful first strike on America's Heartland. WE'RE DOOMED  (cnn.com) (290)
(Rolling Stone) Amusing America's #1 Attention Whore to replace Simon Cowell. Bababooie  (rollingstone.com) (88)
(YouTube) Fail So when they U.S. military recruits America's best and brightest, it looks like they don't focus on getting the brightest  (manofest.com) (50)

Fri February 05, 2010
(Gallup) Obvious New Gallup poll shows that 36% of Americans, including 53% of Democrats and 61% of liberals, view socialism positively  (gallup.com) (213)
(CNN) Stupid Because you're American, and you haven't had your requisite daily dose of self-loathing, CNN helpfully explains why the Super Bowl is no big deal internationally  (cnn.com) (156)
(Fox News) Obvious Most Americans want a "do-over" on health reform, suffer from delusion that they have any control over it and that it would turn out at all different  (foxnews.com) (54)
(Some Chick) Asinine Woman in Ft. Worth upset with the state of the country show her distress by flying the American flag upside down on a 60' pole at her business. "It is an outcry of the danger our country is in."  (kbtx.com) (181)
(National Review) Ironic Democrats 2008: Enlighted Americans have wisely chosen hope and change. Democrats 2010: Americans are evil morons  (article.nationalreview.com) (156)
(rbs6Nations.com) Cool Yes, yes, yes America. We know you have your grand advertising extravaganza on Sunday evening. But before then there is the beginning of the 6 Nations with Ireland v Italy, England v Wales and Scotland v France - no helmets or pads allowed  (rbs6nations.com) (147)

Thu February 04, 2010
(MSNBC) Obvious Former CEO of Bank of America charged with fraud, $39 overdraft fee, $10 notification fee, $25 low balance fee, and $7 loss fee  T-Shirt  (msnbc.msn.com) (71)
(Talking Points Memo) Fail The CBO takes a look at the House GOP's "Roadmap for America's Future" -- "The Roadmap would put the federal budget on a sustainable path, generating an annual budget surplus of about 5 percent of GDP by 2080."  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (180)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Enjoy your organic melamine: Since fewer than 1 percent of American farms are certified organic, many food companies have to import organic ingredients from China  (online.wsj.com) (84)
(Huffington Post) Stupid No, Obama is not going to do any more British parliament-style open question forums for congressmen, because it makes too much sense and is too informative to the American public, and they're not ready for that  (huffingtonpost.com) (88)

Wed February 03, 2010
(Celebslam) Unlikely Having nailed every bar slut in Hollywood, John Mayer focuses his sights on America's sweetheart Taylor Swift  (celebslam.celebuzz.com) (78)
(The New York Times) Interesting Bankrupt progressive radio network Air America still owes money to some of its on-air personalities, who may in turn be unable to pay their dealers, yoga instructors, and vegan co-ops  (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) (186)
(LA Times) Amusing An "American Psycho" play with music by Phil Collins, Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis? "Really, what could be more subversive fun than murderous bankers breaking into song?"  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (41)
(Yahoo) Amusing Scientists warn of an upcoming Lulz-quake of epic proportions as the Tea-baggers prepare to release their "crowd-sourced" party platform, to be entitled the "Contract From America"  (news.yahoo.com) (352)
(The Trumpet) Interesting America has reached a fork in the road: Raise interest rates to attract foreign investment and keep the economy afloat, expanding the abyss of debt. Either that, or kill the Dollar to pay the bills. Choose one. The time has come  (thetrumpet.com) (132)

Tue February 02, 2010
(Local6) Florida Miss Florida, fresh from her Miss America 2010 defeat, sets her sights on next failure: Becoming Mrs. Tim Tebow  (clickorlando.com) (64)

Mon February 01, 2010
(Denver Post) Sad People in Colorado are starving because they can't get their food stamps on time. With picture of what a starving American looks like  (denverpost.com) (474)
(Some History Guy) Interesting Seven myths about the American Revolution you probably never thought to ask  (smithsonianmag.com) (224)
(Some Dwight) Followup Ricky Gervais confirms he will make a guest appearance on the superior American version of The Office  (digitalspy.com) (127)
(Cinematical) Spiffy Joe Johnston, director of "The First Avenger: Captain America," sits down an reassures fans that the movie will start off during WWII and thankfully skip the 60's and 70's storylines  (cinematical.com) (79)
(My Fox DC) Interesting 50 years after four African-American students sat down at a segregated lunch counter in a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store, one question remains. What's a Woolworth?  (myfoxdc.com) (265)
(Guardian.com) Asinine In Britain, homeopathy is taken so seriously that the national health service pays for homeopathic "medicines" and there are five homeopathic hospitals. And Brits think Americans are dumb?  (guardian.co.uk) (191)
(E! Online) Asinine Scott Brown's first task as Senator? Get Simon Cowell to put his daughter Ayla back on American Idol. Really  (eonline.com) (48)

Sun January 31, 2010
(Billings Gazette) Interesting A Montana family responds to criticism and harassement for flying their American flag upside down to indicate our country is in a "state of emergency."  (billingsgazette.com) (178)
(Cracked) Amusing England is basically the pathetic stalky "friend" of America who will one day snap, threaten America with a knife and end up getting buggered in jail by a swarthy continent sporting a teardrop tattoo  (cracked.com) (200)
(YouTube) Video The WTF video of the day. A band named Stump singing about and to over half the women in America  (youtube.com) (21)

Sat January 30, 2010
(The Beast) Amusing The 50 most loathsome Americans of 2009. We may disagree with some of the choices, but the fellow at Number 1 has definitely earned it  (buffalobeast.com) (357)
(CNN) Dumbass TSA launches internal investgation over assignment board with "Jeopardy" categories such as "our gang" (meaning African Americans), "pickle smokers" (gays). No word on who was assigned The Rapists or Anal Bum Covers  (cnn.com) (132)
(Yahoo) Obvious 53 beauty queens ready to compete for the title of Miss America. No word on the missing four  (news.yahoo.com) (42)
(CNN) Amusing Republican to Obama: I hate you. You lie. You're turning America into a socialist state. But can i have your autograph?  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (35)
(Some Guy) Fail Only 32% Of Americans Know The Senate Bill Did Not Get Bipartisan Support  (fdlaction.firedoglake.com) (32)
(Reason Magazine) Unlikely Russia threatened to nuke America if Henry Paulson didn't bail out Fannie and Freddy. Or, so he'd like you to believe  (reason.com) (23)
(BBC) Interesting "Why do people often vote against their own interests?" Democrat African-Americans and gay Republicans unavailable for comment  (news.bbc.co.uk) (118)

Fri January 29, 2010
(BBC) Followup China threatens to cut America's allowance for selling $6.4 Billion of "f*ck China" to Taiwan  (news.bbc.co.uk) (78)
(Politico) Obvious Miss America Live says that "Rush Limbaugh has exceptionally impressive fist pumping skills"  (politico.com) (41)

Thu January 28, 2010
(The Atlantic) Fail Think us Americans are particularly generous? Well, in terms of giving money to Haiti, we're less generous than Ghana and China  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (325)
(The New York Times) Fail America's most prestigious colleges lost their shirts investing in stocks in 2008. For 2009 they invested with private equity. Guess what happened?  (nytimes.com) (59)
(Chicago Tribune) PSA Chicago is cancelling their 3rd of July fireworks show. THAT IS UNAMERICAN. WHY DON'T YOU CARE ABOUT THE FOURTH OF JULY...oh, I see  (chicagobreakingnews.com) (67)

Wed January 27, 2010
(KITV) Hero Retired WWII veteran from Hawaii lets Obama know how he really feels. Article to the left, condescending and unamerican drivel to the right  (kitv.com) (477)
(Politico) Obvious Sensing an opportunity, Hillary Clinton says she won't serve two terms as Secretary of State and will have plenty of time from 2012 on if America wants her to do, you know, stuff  (politico.com) (61)
(Fox News) Hero Rep. John Boehner (P-atriot) protects America from Obama bin Laden's terrorist buddies. Better luck next time, Al Qaeda  (foxnews.com) (189)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Oh, my. Excerpts from the book by John Edwards' staffer: "Edwards would confide in him about how he thought about leaving 'crazy' Elizabeth, but how she plays better with American voters than he"  (blogs.wsj.com) (146)
(ABC News) Obvious Press secretary Gibbs says "The president is going to explain why he thinks the American people are angry and frustrated," He will then point at 535 people seated in front of him, then at himself  (abcnews.go.com) (283)

Tue January 26, 2010
(LA Times) Scary Salvador Cabanas, leading striker for Paraguay and Club America, in critical but stable condition after shooting. Proving once again that soccer is still a bloodsport  (latimes.com) (17)
(SacBee) Obvious New poll in California reveals that only 42% of Republicans in state believe Obama was born in America, meaning 58% are apparently drooling retards  (sacbee.com) (200)
(Politico) Interesting The mystery of "Ellie Light," the pro-Obama letter writer who apparently lives simultaneously in 60 cities across America, has been solved. And she's just an average, well-meaning moran  (politico.com) (96)
(BBC) Amusing Brits baffled by American love of gaudy land yachts (with pic of what a European RV might look like)  (news.bbc.co.uk) (190)
(Gawker) Interesting Washington to deport two native-born Americans to China to be a part of a forced breeding program  (gawker.com) (41)

Mon January 25, 2010
(Popular Science) Cool The 2010 America's Cup just took a turn for the awesome as officials throw out the rulebook and allow contestants to submit boats that look like . . . well, something out of 2010  (popsci.com) (54)
(Variety) Spiffy 43% of Americans tuned in to Yesterday's game to watch Brett Favre fail  (variety.com) (83)
(Orlando Sentinel) Interesting Jay Leno was America's number one TV personality. Now he's third. Oprah is first. Bill O'Reilly is tenth, and would be second if not for a vast left-wing conspiracy against him  (blogs.orlandosentinel.com) (67)
(Fox Business) Followup To all those Europeans laughing at us Americans for the Toyota recalls? Welcome to the party  (foxbusiness.com) (43)

Sun January 24, 2010
(The Scotsman) Interesting Tea sales rise in Britain for first time in four decades, driven by young women rejecting expensive American chain-coffee and returning to comfort of the traditional cuppa  (news.scotsman.com) (121)

Sat January 23, 2010
(BBC) Obvious New study shows Venezuela twice as dangerous to America's way of life than previously thought  (news.bbc.co.uk) (73)

Fri January 22, 2010
(The Register) Fail Judge rules that the NSA can't be sued because they violated the rights of too many Americans  (theregister.co.uk) (64)
(Gallup) Interesting Fifty-five percent of Americans support putting the brakes on health care reform in order to obtain a compromise with Republicans, while 40 percent think Democrats should instead throttle up and just make the impending trainwreck happen already  (gallup.com) (415)
(Yahoo) Asinine I personally believe that these U.S. Americans don't HAVE maps. The Iraq, such as  (tv.yahoo.com) (54)
(CNBC) Obvious "The US economy is a system where you socialize the losses and privatize the gains, which is not capitalism," says the America-hating professor who obviously doesn't know the first thing about economics  (cnbc.com) (165)
(Some Tribune) Interesting Five Latin American/Caribbean nations lost significant amounts of economic freedom in 2009. This is bad news... for a Bahaman  (tribune242.com) (15)

Thu January 21, 2010
(BBC) Video How are Americans celebrating Brown's win? According to the BBC, with finger snaps and chicken dances  (news.bbc.co.uk) (29)
(Guardian.com) Scary Anthony Hopkins is also a talented painter. Works include rural landscapes, childlike portraits, scenes of disemboweled Charles Napier hanging Christlike from iron cage with American flag bunting  (guardian.co.uk) (53)
(Some Non-Hipster Musicians) Cool Vampire Weekend have the number one bestselling album in America, proving lots of people give a fark about an Oxford comma  (digitalspy.co.uk) (48)
(The Atlantic) Fail Say hello to the All-American Basketball Alliance, a professional basketball league where "Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league."  (ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com) (106)
(Chicago Tribune) Dumbass American Idol introduces Chicago by showing video of contestants swearing at the producers. Fark: The contestants were from Orlando  (chicagobreakingnews.com) (39)

Wed January 20, 2010
(AJC) Amusing America's Gayest City? Well, that peach can symbolize a lot of things, I guess  (ajc.com) (308)

Tue January 19, 2010
(ABC News) Obvious 81% of Americans want legal weed  (abcnews.go.com) (504)

Mon January 18, 2010
(The Hollywood Reporter) Spiffy Canadian TV makes its decision on what to air in Leno's old primetime slot, chooses "Chuck," "Parenthood," "Ugly Betty," and some CanCon crap you've never heard of. Your move, America  (hollywoodreporter.com) (67)

Sun January 17, 2010
(The Atlantic) Fail If the GOP wins the Massachussetts Senate seat, it will not only be a vindication of the nihilistic and destructive strategy of obstructionism, but it will be final proof that the American people don't deserve to keep their republic  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (533)
(The New York Times) Obvious Whether to hit "debit" or "credit" when you swipe your debit card, Visa and Mastercard will win either way. Oligopoly, the new American Way  (nytimes.com) (124)
(Examiner) Interesting Is the American economy is destined to fail?  (examiner.com) (239)
(Wall Street Journal) Asinine Texting 90999 to donate to the American Red Cross to support Haiti operations? You could probably swim there with a ten dollar bill and get it to them faster  (online.wsj.com) (112)

Sat January 16, 2010
(LiveLeak) Silly Further proof that Japanese TV is farking weird, but still better than anything you'll see on a major primetime reality show in America  (liveleak.com) (32)
(National Journal) Interesting The majority of Americans would vote against Obama if the 2012 election were held today. This is bad news...for Obama  (hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com) (200)
(dark horizons) Sad Karate Kid remake starring Will Smith's son scored second-highest test screening score in Sony's history. THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE, AMERICA  (darkhorizons.com) (88)
(BBC) Cool English football and African football precede American football today. Its your EPL and Africa Cup of Nations discussion thread  (news.bbc.co.uk) (76)

Fri January 15, 2010
(Telegraph) Dumbass Two hunters try to quack into America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly plant, hilarity enthues  (telegraph.co.uk) (64)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Karl Rove: Americans learned last year that President Obama discards campaign promises like most people discard used Kleenex  (online.wsj.com) (213)
(YouTube) Cool Thirty-eight years ago today, American Pie began its four-week stint in the number one position on the charts. No matter how many times you've heard it, you'll still listen  (youtube.com) (67)
(Details) Dumbass Meet America's first legal male prostitute. He apparently sees similarities between himself and Rosa Parks  (details.com) (159)

Thu January 14, 2010
(Canada.com) Amusing Quebec Premier, "noting that the Quebec-based Cirque du Soleil and Céline Dion have made their mark in the U.S. market," vows to forge broader ties with America  (montrealgazette.com) (43)
(The New Yorker) Dumbass Famed conservative economist displays his mental gymnastics while explaining that America never suffered through a housing bubble or irrational investing behavior. Even the Chinese judge gives him a 10 (at 3% interest)  T-Shirt  (newyorker.com) (71)
(Yahoo) Stupid Globally, auto companies make 30 million more cars than demand requires, in part because while American companies can close plants, European firms are paid by the government not to  (finance.yahoo.com) (27)
(Houston Chronicle) Cool Johnny Cash's final album in his "American" series to be released in February, but he'll always be around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around  (blogs.chron.com) (10)

Wed January 13, 2010
(ABC News) Sappy American aid worker trapped in the rubble of her house after the Haitian earthquake has been saved-by her husband. Which means he can leave his dirty socks anywhere he damn well pleases from now on  (abcnews.go.com) (176)
(Boston Herald) Silly American Idol contestant and daughter of Senate hopeful claims that her father's opponent put senate race in gutter. Simon Cowell disagrees, Paula thinks she looks great, and the other guy calls her "dawg", whatever that means  (news.bostonherald.com) (91)

Tue January 12, 2010
(CNN) Interesting Sarah Palin to address Wine and Liquor Wholesalers of America convention in April, appear in Republicans Gone Wild video in May  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (241)
(YouTube) Cool On this day in 1974, the number one song in America was Steve Miller Band's The Joker. Come and speak of the pompatous of love  (youtube.com) (71)
(Some Guy) Interesting Coach Bob Knight: The Next American Idol?  (jockism.com) (17)
(CNN) Interesting Obama's first year in office: 48 percent of Americans think "miserable failure" needs a new Google bomb, 47 percent say he spent 12 months bestriding the country as a shimmering colossus  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (165)
(Rasmussen Reports) Interesting Eighty-seven percent of Americans oppose an Internet computer in a car's dashboard. The other 13 percent think that life without constant access to Russian midget tranny porn is just not worth living  (rasmussenreports.com) (53)
(Some Guy) Silly Amish are exempt from Obamacare, American Idol premier. Lucky bastards  (watertowndailytimes.com) (139)
(My Fox DC) Cool Rarely seen 400-year old map puts China at the center of the world and shows the Americas off in the corner  (myfoxdc.com) (126)
(Newsweek) Obvious Al Qaeda succeeded in its real aim, which was to throw the American system into turmoil  (newsweek.com) (280)
(The Hill) Ironic "African Americans for Harry Reid" event scheduled for later this week. Awkward  (washingtonscene.thehill.com) (169)

Mon January 11, 2010
(National Review) Obvious "Barack Obama has spent the last year doing bigtime Islamoschmoozing, and they sent America a thank-you note by way of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underwear: Hey, thanks for all the outreach But we're still gonna kill you."  (article.nationalreview.com) (224)
(Washington Post) Spiffy America by the numbers: We commit suicide less than other countries. We spend less on food but are really fat. And the average man has only boffed 5 women, and he's lying about 3 of them  (washingtonpost.com) (561)
(ABC News) Asinine Banks bailed out by American taxpayers are finally implementing responsible financial compensation practices. Just kidding, employee performance bonuses for 2009 will be 'record-busting'  (abcnews.go.com) (100)

Sun January 10, 2010
(13WHAM.com) Ironic Howie Mandel to replace David Hasselhoff on "America's Got Talent" making all three judges non-Americans  (13wham.com) (47)
(Wall Street Journal) Cool "Avatar" wins its fourth weekend in a row, becoming the highest-grossing movie released in 2009, crushing newcomer "Daybreakers." Further proof that more Americans prefer their sci-fi good and their vampires sparkly and pale  (blogs.wsj.com) (468)

Sat January 09, 2010
(UPI) Stupid The American Dialect Society has voted "tweet" the 2009 word of the year and "google" the word of the decade. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill myself  (upi.com) (131)
(LA Times) Amusing New reality TV show featuring worst cooks in America competing for $25K prize shocks and saddens its host. "There were fires, smoke. It was so hard to watch. They blew up that kitchen every day"  (latimesblogs.latimes.com) (67)

Fri January 08, 2010
(Breitbart.com) Weird That crazy guy from Law & Order is off his meds again: Humphrey Bogart was a communist, Ingrid Bergman was a plant for the American Feminist Movement, and Casablanca was part of the "Communist Collective Dream."  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (124)
(Seattle Times) Asinine Excited about watching the Winter Olympics? Well suck it Americans, NBC to broadcast events on tape delay  (seattletimes.nwsource.com) (135)
(Breitbart.com) Obvious You can add "It's a Wonderful Life" to the growing list of films that conservatives have deemed Godless America-hating communist propaganda  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (160)
(The New York Times) Scary "The ultimate battle, that will be a lot of fun to watch," one believer gushes."God is going to trash the planet," says another, beaming. Members of the Religion of Peace? Nope just your average American fundies  (movies.nytimes.com) (263)

Thu January 07, 2010
(Think Progress) Strange Glenn Beck to African Americans - "You don't exist"  (thinkprogress.org) (381)
(CNN) Asinine Newt Gingrich isn't too fond of the whole "innocent until proven guilty" concept at the core of American jurisprudence  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (451)
(People Magazine) Cool David Hasselhoff leaving America's Got Talent to spend more time with his cheeseburgers  (tvwatch.people.com) (28)
(CBS New York) Dumbass 2010 census form includes "negro" as race option. Census Bureau apologizes for error, promises to change option to "attractive and successful African American"  (wcbstv.com) (374)
(YouTube) Cool The Sweet perform their glam-rock hit Ballroom Blitz. No, Krokus did the cheesy-cool metal cover in the 1980s, and Tia Carrere covered it in Wayne's World, and someone ripped off STOMP with it on America's Got Talent. Lawn. Off. Please  (youtube.com) (75)

Wed January 06, 2010
(Some Guy) Fail "Giving foreign-born, foreign-trained terrorists the right to remain silent does nothing to keep Americans safe from terrorist threats," claims well known legal scholar Sarah Palin  (politicususa.com) (535)
(Yahoo) Spiffy Relax everyone and don't sell that hummer just yet. They just found a massive oil reservoir that stretches from Africa to South America  (finance.yahoo.com) (348)
(CTV) Spiffy Canada deflated as USA snaps their five-year Gold Medal streak at World Junior Hockey Championships. America looks up from what it's doing and asks "The World what now?"  (ctv.ca) (197)

Tue January 05, 2010
(Some Guy) Interesting New survey claims only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work, much like their employers  (newsnet5.com) (129)
(Variety) Cool Producers Guild of America has unveiled their nominations for Best Picture...and Star Trek is on the list  (variety.com) (137)
(Yahoo) Fail 32% more Americans file bankruptcy in 2009 because of the Obama stimulus  (news.yahoo.com) (192)
(CSMonitor) Interesting Starbucks customers are satisfied with 97% pesticide-laden coffee, to the dismay of Latin Americans who literally bet the farm on the organic craze  (csmonitor.com) (74)

Mon January 04, 2010
(Some Guy) Interesting For the first time in seven years, Disneyland is draining the Rivers of America. Among the items expected to be found are Tom Sawyer's paintbrush, Davy Crockett's rifle, and the bloated corpse of Brer Rabbit  (ocresort.freedomblogging.com) (172)
(The New York Times) Unlikely "Citigroup and Bank of America, for example, concluded that everyone in their executive suites was above average when compared with peers at other giant banks that didn't need a bailout"  (nytimes.com) (30)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting America is still feeling the effects of Prohibition, which can be confirmed by anyone who's tried to buy a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer in Pennsylvania  (online.wsj.com) (175)

Sun January 03, 2010
(Denver Post) Spiffy Denver medical marijuana dispensaries now outnumber liquor stores, public schools, even Starbucks; recently named by NORML as America's Cannabis Capitol™  (denverpost.com) (38)
(National Review) Interesting Imagine if I collected the most infamous deeds of African-Americans this decade - say, Michael Vick's dog-fighting scandal and O. J. Simpson's most recent criminal exploit - and then called it "the decade in black America"  (article.nationalreview.com) (266)
(UPI) Stupid British, American embassies closed in Yemen. Yeah, that'll show those terrorists we mean business. Up next: a sharply worded letter  (upi.com) (146)
(Some Guy) Interesting The five biggest tall tales you'll hear from climate change deniers. "We all know journalists hate America. Rather than report the truth, they act as PR agents for the global warming crowd."  (mnn.com) (303)
(Stuff) Strange American politicians deal with attacks by heightening security. Italian politicians deal with attacks by recording a CD of love songs  (stuff.co.nz) (34)

Sat January 02, 2010
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious "The Constitution does not give Congress the power to require that Americans purchase health insurance."  (online.wsj.com) (651)
(UPI) Strange You send us lead-painted toys, we send you 8,500 tons of used tires. It's the American way  (upi.com) (45)

Fri January 01, 2010
(Google) Sad America's downsizing continues - Inventor of Quarter Pounder now 27 grams lighter  (thestate.com) (123)
(Yahoo) Hero December was the first month since the invasion of Iraq that there wasn't a single American combat death in the country  (news.yahoo.com) (250)
(AOL) Obvious Did Americans get any healthier over the past decade? (please use your dialing wand to indicate your response)  (news.aol.com) (76)

Thu December 31, 2009
(BusinessWeek) Interesting U.S. taxpayers to lose up to $400 billion providing the "American Dream" to people living above their means. Or, 2/3 of the yearly Defense Budget  (businessweek.com) (65)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Ohio's Governor woos Indian consulting firm to open offices in the US. Damn Americans taking American jobs away from hard working Americans  T-Shirt  (bloomberg.com) (19)

Wed December 30, 2009
(Telegraph) Interesting Top ten reasons why Barack Obama gets an 'F' for protecting Americans  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (191)
(SFGate) Interesting Rubbed the wrong way by rudderless American flight security guidelines, Dutch authorities plan to institute full-body scans at airports  (sfgate.com) (145)
(ICNetwork) Obvious British survey discovers what Americans already knew: people on conference calls are sitting around at home naked, waiting for someone with a sexy voice to talk for a while  (walesonline.co.uk) (11)
(Some Guy) Asinine Stimulus funds used to build a nice new tennis court in Bozeman, Montana - the hub for Americas tennis pros  (bozemandailychronicle.com) (78)

Mon December 28, 2009
(ABC News) Scary Debt in America: strategically default on your mortgage and downgrade from the SUV to a used Corolla. Debt in Egypt: sell a kidney for $2k to put food on the table. Ouch  (abcnews.go.com) (127)
(CNN) Obvious Obamacare won't make a difference because Americans are too drunk, lazy, fat and stupid to stay out of the hospital to begin with  (cnn.com) (226)
(Townhall) Hero Through their overreaching arrogance, Democrats have succeeded in awakening a sleeping giant - regular Americans. They now climb out of their recliners to have a little cheese dip, assault the Fortresses of Socialism  (townhall.com) (681)
(Pew Forum) Obvious Mississippi tops list as being America's most religious state, which is no surprise since everyone there prays to win the lottery  (pewforum.org) (132)
(Breitbart.com) Interesting "James Cameron should apologize to the American Military and should make a statement that he does not truly feel this way about them"  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (193)
(Bloomberg) Obvious Do you want to bet against America? Well, Morgan Stanley has the investment product for you  (bloomberg.com) (61)
(MSNBC) Ironic The 2009 Delicious Irony award goes to Native American tribes, who are using funds from casinos to buy America back, a few thousand acres at a time  (msnbc.msn.com) (423)
(Miami Herald) Amusing "In a setback for U.S. interests in Central America, voters in Honduras elect, as their new president, Rod Blagojevich"  (miamiherald.com) (47)

Sun December 27, 2009
(ESPN) Interesting Moss grows fat on Jacksonville's defense. Don McLean claims he knew that, but it had too many syllables to fit into that verse of American Pie  (espn.go.com) (21)
(Yahoo) Obvious Where Americans Aren't Moving. Hint: The top 5 states are blue ones and one is Obama's home state  (finance.yahoo.com) (354)
(Entertainment Weekly) Asinine Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes bastardization set a new record for biggest movie opening on Christmas. Goddammit, read a book, America  (hollywoodinsider.ew.com) (193)

Fri December 25, 2009
(Gallup) Interesting Merry Christmas, to the declining 78% of Americans who declare themselves Christian according to latest Gallup polls  (gallup.com) (259)
(Newsweek) Strange Guess which American sports franchise makes the most money? If you said the Yankees, sorry, but you do get these lovely parting gifts  (newsweek.com) (68)
(KRGV) Followup Boy is finally reunited with American Dad. Family Guy still better  (krgv.com) (115)

Thu December 24, 2009
(Reuters) Fail "Hopenhagen" produced as much carbon in 11 days as 2,300 Americans do in a year  (reuters.com) (165)

Wed December 23, 2009
(Breitbart.com) Amusing Today's Incoherent Headline Award goes to: "Recipe for Oscar Nom Trash Middle Tea-Bagging America." Om nom nom  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (72)
(Orlando Sentinel) Cool Unless Fox gets more money from the cable company, cable customers won't be able to watch American Idol on cable TV. Subby fails to understand what the problem is  (orlandosentinel.com) (130)
(Contact Music) Unlikely Simon Cowell is quitting American Idol. At least, according to his brother, who heard it from his cousin who heard it from his wife who overheard someone talking about it at 31 Flavors last night  (contactmusic.com) (26)
(NJ.com) Unlikely Columnist afraid of his wife writes that most American men wouldn't have as many affairs as Tiger Woods even if they could because "we're too lazy"  (blog.nj.com) (199)
(Fox News) Scary American Airlines flight 331 from DC arrives in Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, at gate 8, gate 9, gate 10  (foxnews.com) (192)

Tue December 22, 2009
(Slate) Strange ... and in news you don't care about, are America's prisoners getting too much soy?  (thebigmoney.com) (19)
(Townhall) Obvious Obama sarcastically belittles America's Judeo-Christian heritage with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist: "...to base our policymaking on such commitments (as moral absolutes) would be a dangerous thing."  (townhall.com) (398)
(ABC News) Obvious Poll conducted on what Americans want for Christmas is pretty ordinary: pair of boots, warm coat, submachine gun, supersonic jet. You know, the usual  (abcnews.go.com) (230)

Mon December 21, 2009
(National Review) Asinine "American government changed last night. 'We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,' says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.)"  (corner.nationalreview.com) (298)
(Google) PSA Mexico City becomes first Latin American city to approve gay marriage. ¡Fabuloso︕  (google.com) (144)
(USA Today) Stupid "Blige's willingness to bare her tortured inner self...has ensured her reign as the queen of hip-hop." And with a new album, American Idol stint, and a sunglasses/fragrance line coming, get ready for more torture  (usatoday.com) (24)
(The Sun) Interesting Facebook now being blamed for breakdown of thousands of marriages each year: "The site was named in at least 20 per cent of divorce petitions in America this year"  (thesun.co.uk) (168)

Sun December 20, 2009
(Gainesville Times) Interesting Study finds American teens are using more pills, less pot  (gainesvilletimes.com) (158)
(News Post Online) Interesting Study finds American teens are using more pot, less tobacco  (newspostonline.com) (65)
(Telegraph) Asinine American media wins 2009 brown-nosing title for their coverage of Copenhagen summit or, as they put it, 'How Obama saved the world'  (blogs.telegraph.co.uk) (205)

Sat December 19, 2009
(Yahoo) Interesting Book looks at evangelical Christianity in American sports. *cough* Matthew 6:7 *cough*  (news.yahoo.com) (124)
(Fox News) Spiffy Sen. Ben Nelson bought off for number 60. Democrats are now free to subvert the will of the American people  (foxnews.com) (1340)

Fri December 18, 2009
(CBC) Interesting Players from an American junior hockey team kill a bat that flew into the arena. While Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne may be impressed, naturally PETA is not  (cbc.ca) (27)
(Townhall) Scary FDR used fear to negotiate a vast expansion of federal control over the day-to-day lives of ordinary American citizens. But compared to Obama, FDR was a piker in the panic and dread department  (townhall.com) (496)

Thu December 17, 2009
(The Business Insider) Scary 10 American Industries that will soon be destroyed. Insurance companies suspiciously absent  (businessinsider.com) (116)
(Some Guy) Spiffy America's Sheriff says "People everywhere deserve a little Christmas cheer. Especially those incarcerated during the holiday season." Not surprisingly some inmates have a problem with this  (wbaltv.com) (156)
(Bloomberg) Interesting Brian Moynihan named new captain of the RMS Bank of America. Watch out for those icebergs  (bloomberg.com) (20)

Wed December 16, 2009
(Some geek^2) Amusing Nightcrawler and Wolverine outed as fans of NPR's This American Life  (blogs.vocalo.org) (38)
(Some American Guy) Amusing He's had a hard week job hunting, but only because he is American  (guestworkerfraud.com) (404)
(SF Weekly) Obvious "San Francisco is spectacularly mismanaged and arguably the worst-run big city in America."  (sfweekly.com) (357)
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Following the tomato-hurling event at Sarah Palin's Mall of America book signing, Salt Lake City CostCo removes all tomatoes from the store prior to Palin visit  (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (192)

Tue December 15, 2009
(AlterNet) Interesting Is belief in God hurting America?  (alternet.org) (692)
(MSNBC) Spiffy The best argument against health care reform? Americans are living longer and costing more  (msnbc.msn.com) (57)

Mon December 14, 2009
(The Consumerist) Followup Remember that psycho American Airlines flight attendant? And remember how American would neither apologize for nor correct the situation? Yeah, Delta decided to issue free Gold Status to anyone from the American flight  (consumerist.com) (169)
(MSNBC) Obvious Three Americans who accidentally crossed into Iran will be tried. And not just becase Iran learned from N. Korea that you get great political concessions for convicting Americans and then negotiating their release  (msnbc.msn.com) (221)

Sun December 13, 2009
(Variety) Stupid Animated movie about a black princess that turns into a frog beats movie from Clint Eastwood about a black man that went from anti-apartheid activist to president. That's almost as bad as watching Twilight, America  (variety.com) (155)
(Some Guy) Obvious "We were just plain giddy this time last year. This year what I feel, and what I sense much of America feels is fatigue; fatigue born of repetitious let down. Sort of disappointment, but, well, more disappointing. Just let down"  (opednews.com) (154)
(Slate) Fail Slate magazine asks if American's obsession of Drive Thru windows has cooled. Subby wonders this also as he posts this from the jam packed Mcdonald's 24 Drive Thru  (slate.com) (44)

Sat December 12, 2009
(AP) Interesting Instead of taking everybody's guns, gun laws have actually loosened during the Obama administration. "This is all a coordinated approach to respect that human, God-given right of self defense by law-abiding Americans"  (hosted.ap.org) (248)
(Some Guy) Obvious Scientists invent new gun sighting system that they promise will make it easier for twitchy-fingered American gun nuts to kill Commies, each other  (news.softpedia.com) (63)
(ABC News) Cool CD released by obscure, overrated, overly derivative indie band adored by hipsters tops list of 2009's Best Album. No, not that band. That other one. No, not the English one, the American one. No, guess again. Yeah. Those guys. They suck  (abcnews.go.com) (113)

Fri December 11, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious The sworn duty of American political leaders, regardless of party, is to grovel to conservatives and punch hippies  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (60)
(Bloomberg) Cool Bank of America could find out what it's like to have an honest-to-god competent banker as CEO  (bloomberg.com) (27)

Thu December 10, 2009
(C|Net) Fail The average American consumes 34GB worth of "data" -- including 18.5GB of "gaming data" -- each day, according to a new study apparently authored by Sen. Ted Stevens  (news.cnet.com) (110)
(Koss) Asinine Man asks American Airlines flight attendant for orange juice. Attendant flips out, screams at passengers, delivers hand-written reprimand from the captain, tells man he'll be arrested for violation of federal law. The Aristocrats  (kossome.com) (237)
(USA Today) Strange Apparently Michael was the sanest Jackson: The Jackson family insists that "American Idol" called the wrong Randy Jackson by mistake  (content.usatoday.com) (29)
(The Atlantic) Obvious Forty-four percent of Americans see China as the world's leading economic power. And they're dopes: "People who think this are crazy. Or, to be more gentle, they are really woefully misinformed about what the world is like"  (jamesfallows.theatlantic.com) (191)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious Latest victims of the slumping economy: Casino Americans  (chron.com) (41)
(Some Guy) Unlikely "The truth is that there are millions of American men who find older women attractive, and we will prove it on the Cougar Cruise."  (heraldsun.com.au) (500)

Wed December 09, 2009
(MSNBC) Silly Religion in America is now similar to a mix 'n match value menu. You can order a crispy ranch melt, three cheezapeno poppers and a choconut bar to fill the empty void inside, but you will have no idea what you just ate or why you wanted it  (msnbc.msn.com) (334)
(Fox News) Obvious CBO estimates as many as 10 million Americans will lose their employer-based health insurance under Senate bill  (foxnews.com) (176)
(Vanity Fair) Scary "The influence of reality TV has been insidious, pervasive. It has ruined television, and by ruining television it has ruined America. Maybe America was already ruined, but if so, it's now even more ruined"  (vanityfair.com) (117)
(Springfield Republican) Interesting Amtrak sets record as Americans take average of 0.0023 trips each during Thanksgiving week  (masslive.com) (117)

Tue December 08, 2009
(Fox News) Ironic MTV staff receiving death threats from Italian-Americans upset over their depiction as dumb tough guys in the popular new show "Jersey Shore"  (foxnews.com) (153)
(Yahoo) Asinine Why is Bank of America diluting its shareholders and taking a major risk in paying back TARP? If you guessed "so it can pay its executives more," you win. Step forward and collect your welfare check  (finance.yahoo.com) (65)
(ABC News) PSA President Obama settles lawsuit with American Indians, resulting in $1.4 billion dollar payout. In other news, plans for the new Hopenchange Casino moving forward  (abcnews.go.com) (103)

Mon December 07, 2009
(My Fox DC) Fail Liberal tries to throw tomatoes at Palin in Mall of America from second story, misses by ten feet and hits two police officers in face. Now with felony mugshot goodness  (myfoxdc.com) (442)
(Reuters) Scary United States Supreme Court seeks to crush the SarbOx oversight board and return American corporate governance to the Halcyon days of Enron  (reuters.com) (75)
(Townhall) Obvious "It took nearly 150 years for Congress to pass a resolution apologizing for slavery. We should apologize now to future generations for what we've done and are doing to America."  (townhall.com) (134)
(The Atlantic) Unlikely Best-laid plans: By 2012, Obama expects the bailouts to be over, America out of two wars, the deficit on the decline, and himself in the White House for another four years of awesomeness  (politics.theatlantic.com) (143)
(Onion AV Club) Amusing And subby thought he was the only one who thought "Boys and Girls in America" had the worst cover art evar  (avclub.com) (39)
(The Hill) Interesting US Senate willing work on Christmas day if necessary in order to pass health care reform and give Americans the most expensive lump of coal ever  (thehill.com) (321)
(Toronto Sun) Cool Canadian comedy legends The Frantics hold 30 year reunion. For you Americans, they were like The Kids In The Hall, only funny  (torontosun.com) (90)
(AlterNet) Obvious The six scariest processed foods the world has ever seen, or as they are known in America, 'lunch'  (alternet.org) (535)
(Guardian.com) Interesting Craigslist vs. eBay. Two firms enter, one pimp leaves. The battle for who will be America's Sandford and Son rages on  (guardian.co.uk) (59)

Sun December 06, 2009
(Free Press) Obvious Many Americans now think we should mind our own business  (freep.com) (101)
(Google) Obvious Japan's huge stimulus package to be unveiled next week, amid concerns it will look so small in comparison with gigantic American stimulus package  T-Shirt  (google.com) (60)

Sat December 05, 2009
(ITWire) Spiffy Australians have had the world's fastest cellphone network for a year today. American cellphone networks too busy screwing over customers, crying about each other's ads and losing money to care  (itwire.com) (23)
(Science Daily) Hero As American scientists fight to lessen testicular odor and make nipple hair a problem of the past, English scientists use stem cells to rescue visual function  (sciencedaily.com) (20)
(Albany Times Union) Interesting Dutch apologize for massacring American Indians over 400 years ago. Still no apology for Heineken  (timesunion.com) (81)

Fri December 04, 2009
(Contact Music) Stupid George Stephanopoulos will replace Diane Sawyer as the host of Good Morning America. ABC has even made him a special leather high-chair  (contactmusic.com) (20)
(PrefixMag) Amusing First David Bowie US fan letter response, dating from '67: "I hope one day to get to America"  (prefixmag.com) (28)
(Yahoo) Scary Running out of ideas, GM appoints new head of North American Union. Subby wonders how many Ameros it'll cost for a new Corvette  (news.yahoo.com) (44)
(Bloomberg) Obvious As Bank of America is playing footsies with solvency, Citigroup lowers their head in shame and asks to be spanked again before being put back in their cage  (bloomberg.com) (14)
(CNN) Followup Bank of America gives $45 billion to taxpayers after screwing their shareholders. Ouch  (money.cnn.com) (58)
(CBS Minneapolis) Amusing Palin issues media guidelines for Mall of America appearance, such as "no foreigners."  (wcco.com) (298)

Thu December 03, 2009
(Time) Obvious Alton Brown: "Celebrity chefs are the high priests of the food craze that is partly responsible for the fattening of America. We helped people get into this mess. I don't see why we shouldn't help get them out"  (time.com) (123)
(LiveLeak) Audio Audio from the Opie & Anthony Show, featuring Jesse Ventura storming out of the studio during a heated debate about America. Contains a barrelful of foul language  (liveleak.com) (97)

Wed December 02, 2009
(Some Ambitious Slowhand) Cool Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck will play three live shows in North America next year; sadly, two of the three dates are in Canada  (nme.com) (62)
(LiveLeak) Video Florida State offensive line pulls what may be the most bizarre effort in the entire history of American football  (liveleak.com) (123)

Tue December 01, 2009
(Huffington Post) Dumbass In honor of the American soldier, Sarah Palin's autobiography uses a quote celebrating the massacre of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment  (huffingtonpost.com) (447)
(Foreign Policy) Interesting "Americans have come to believe that spending govt revenues on US citizens here at home is usually a bad thing and should be viewed wth suspicion, but spending billions on vast projects overseas is the hallmark of patriotism"  (walt.foreignpolicy.com) (113)
(Reuters) Cool Cyber Monday sales soar as 100 million brave Americans surf for bargains. USA USA USA  (reuters.com) (22)

Mon November 30, 2009
(CBS News) Interesting University of Arizona professor James Rogers advises 15 million Americans to walk away from their home mortgages. Let's see how this works out  (moneywatch.bnet.com) (137)
(USA Today) Obvious Americans are staying here, and taking the jobs they didn't used to want away from hard working illegal immigrants  (content.usatoday.net) (81)
(Contact Music) Interesting Tom Petty's dad beat him because he thought he was gay. Look, just because he was crazy about Elvis, loved horses, and America too, doesn't mean he's gay  (contactmusic.com) (41)
(Reuters) Followup Black Friday numbers worse than expected. Thanks for ruining America, everyone  (reuters.com) (143)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Arab world has stopped applauding Barack Obama, just like Americans have  (online.wsj.com) (176)

Sun November 29, 2009
(Reuters) Fail Twilight: New Moon rules the box office for the second straight week despite Sandra Bullock staking them on Thursday. Well, I hope you're happy, America, we can expect even more sparkly bullshiat  (reuters.com) (179)
(Reason Magazine) Asinine Homeland Security protects America by intecepting the first shipment of a strategy guide for the role-playing game Monsterpocalypse  (reason.com) (89)
(Some Guy) Followup White House "Party Crashers" had a five year relationship with Obama and were members of The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) radical group  (canadafreepress.com) (127)
(My Fox NY) Sad Volunteers of America say they can't even afford to pay sidewalk Santas coal this year  (myfoxny.com) (24)

Sat November 28, 2009
(Slate) Unlikely "Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address having accomplished more than any other postwar American president at a comparable point in his presidency."  (slate.com) (352)
(Daily Express) Obvious British press insists that singing hag Susan Boyle is America's Woman Of The Year for 2009. Note to Britain: no, she's not  (express.co.uk) (51)
(Chicago Sun-Times) Interesting Obama's accept delivery of 2009 Christmas tree. The tree came from West Virginia, so there is at least one thing born and raised in America currently in the White House  T-Shirt  (blogs.suntimes.com) (124)

Fri November 27, 2009
(Huffington Post) Sappy A roundup of cute little animals stuffing their fat little faces on Thanksgiving, just like Americans did  (huffingtonpost.com) (53)
(Canada.com) Cool Kids in the Hall returns with miniseries that's a cross between Corner Gas and Twin Peaks: "You wouldn't be able to do stuff like that in America unless they were paying you $1 per episode"  (canada.com) (84)
(Yahoo) Sick New study shows that Americans throw away over 40% of the food they purchase, or about 1,400 calories per person per DAY. Or, put another way, enough to give every starving person on this planet the same waistline as the average American  (news.yahoo.com) (310)

Thu November 26, 2009
(Access Hollywood) Fail According to Good Morning America, male pop stars who kiss men: Bad; male pop stars who beat women: Good  (accesshollywood.com) (65)
(Economist) Interesting "Between 1960 and 2008, turkeys bulked up by around 11lb to 29lb ... coincidentally in that same period the average American man gained 28lb, almost the equivalent of a turkey"  (economist.com) (39)
(Andrew Sullivan) Cool A moving Thanksgiving Day tribute to America expressed with a clarity that perhaps only a conservative, gay, Catholic, pugnacious and irrepressible expatriate Brit could attain. Happy Thanksgiving Fark  (mcgillreport.org) (96)
(Yahoo) Interesting Thirty-two percent of American men are obviously watching Alton Brown more than the Dallas Cowboys this year  (fe2.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (141)

Wed November 25, 2009
(National Review) Sad This is why you can't have nice things, America: "rather than a retelling of the Nativity story there will be a disco, a contemporary circus, a continental market and a seven foot fairy on stilts."  (corner.nationalreview.com) (458)
(Charlotte Obs) Unlikely Billy Graham thinks God was using Sarah Palin "to wake America up," presumably to witness John McCain's godawful decision making skills  (charlotteobserver.com) (92)

Tue November 24, 2009
(Google) Obvious Someone finally calls Sprint's bluff on their 'America's Most Dependable Network' BS  (google.com) (40)
(yomiuri.co.jp) Strange Small Tokyo factories pool resources to build deep-sea research robot to search for oil and minerals. In other news, small American factories struggle to find workers who understand English and can add two numbers  (yomiuri.co.jp) (34)
(Washington Post) Interesting Lost: President. Tall and well-dressed, age 48. Enjoys basketball and golf. Has "keen moral clarity." If found, contact the American Left, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC  (washingtonpost.com) (122)
(io9) Ironic Producers Guild of America bestows their highest award on Joss Whedon...for his work outside of television  (io9.com) (22)
(Google) Stupid Recession has caused many Americans to only buy things they can afford - and pay cash. Rather than praise this, the AP is calling these people "Scrooges"  (google.com) (94)

Mon November 23, 2009
(Globe and Mail) Interesting Obama & Palin, the Yin & Yang of American politics: "Ms. Palin connects: Mr. Obama inspires. She's a latter-day frontier figure, impulsive, instinctive; he's pure urban cool, highly deliberate, even detached."  (theglobeandmail.com) (183)
(The Hill) Sad A headline that could only exist in a country with a legislature as screwed up as America's: "McCaskill still working toward goal of reading the healthcare bill"  (thehill.com) (173)

Sun November 22, 2009
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting The coming deficit disaster: why President Obama hates you personally and wants to destroy America  (online.wsj.com) (256)
(TV Squad) Amusing Hollywood is officially out of ideas: American Gladiators is being made into a movie  (tvsquad.com) (41)

Sat November 21, 2009
(Yahoo) Interesting Nearly 40% of all Americans ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college this year, ensuring us a future of very well educated fast food workers and Walmart clerks  (fe17.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) (167)
(CNN) Misc The Office, which used to be about a shiatty place to work, is now about a shiatty place to try to not get laid off from. Although as anyone with a clue can tell you, the British recession is way better than the American one  (cnn.com) (96)

Fri November 20, 2009
(Contact Music) Silly White Lies say that the enjoyed touring with Kings of Leon more than they did with Coldplay, because "the Americans partied with us." It's like an auditory vortex of suck  (contactmusic.com) (17)
(CBS San Francisco) Spiffy Sunnyvale, CA named happiest place in America, Crappyville still least happy  (cbs5.com) (98)

Thu November 19, 2009
(Hot Air) Interesting Almost three-quarters of Americans like Obama as a person, but fewer than half like his policies, and only 35 percent like the House health care plan he endorsed. If you need him, he'll be in the Rose Garden eating worms  (hotair.com) (279)

Wed November 18, 2009
(Some Guy) Obvious CWA president upset that American T-Mobile employees, who are already happy with their workplace, aren't interested in "organizing", plans to bring in German muscle to "re-educate" them  (wfaa.com) (43)
(Contact Music) Followup Rachel McAdams dismisses rumors that she will suit up in skintight leather and portray Black Cat in Spider-Man 4, proving once and for all that Rachel McAdams hates America  (contactmusic.com) (155)
(CNN) Obvious Goldman Sachs apologizes for being a bunch of douchebags profiting on the collapse of America. "Sorry 'bout that, dudes"  (money.cnn.com) (52)

Tue November 17, 2009
(UPI) Amusing Danish political party admits to covering posters for opposing parties' candidates with yellow stickers shaped like penises. Nice try, but in America, we go all out and put the dicks on the actual BALLOTS  T-Shirt  (upi.com) (46)
(Village Voice) Unlikely Sorry, the toothpaste is out of the tube and it's fabulous: Handlers for "American Idol" singer Adam Lambert want to put him back into the closet  (blogs.villagevoice.com) (61)
(Hot Air) Interesting Sixty-four percent of Americans think Khalid Sheikh Muhammed should be tried in a military court, while 34 percent say a civilian court. "Even a majority of Democrats and liberals say that he should be tried by military authorities"  (hotair.com) (693)
(The Consumerist) Asinine American Airlines fires web designer who helped a customer and apologized for the poor webpage design  (consumerist.com) (41)
(The New York Times) Interesting Half of Americans willing to pay for online news, but only at an average of $3 a month. In other news, TotalFarkers are finally above average for once  (nytimes.com) (87)

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