America – memoirs on a rainy day

Google Chromebooks Fly Free on Virgin America

Yes Google Chromebooks are now available, but I bet that you haven’t really given one a try. Starting today, and until September, Google will lend you a Chromebook on select Virgin America routes. You’ll even get free inflight Wi-Fi to go with. I can already see sales getting a boost because of this. Read more…

July 1, 2011

America & The Six Other Big Bad Countries In The World

Take a normal country like Canada or Portugal or Finland or Australia or Czechoslovakia or Thailand or Bhutan. They go about their business without the pretension of thinking themselves superior. Yes! We’re all normal in Canada! Russia of course is a special case. Essentially a nation of drunken thugs with a great literary tradition, they…

February 15, 2010

By George By Maira Kalman

Incredible post over And The Pursuit of Happiness on George Washington. A book based on this blog will be published in October 2010.

January 4, 2010

Klepto Capitalism

I came across this term while catching up on my 3QD posts. Klepto capitalism makes a lot of sense and it describes corporate America very well. How can a company pay its workers $50,000 per annum and give its top execs millions, if not billions, of dollars each year? I think that the worst culprits…

November 3, 2009

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Kid Nation We’ve All Decided To Go Mad S01E13 (CBS)

Kid Nation Where Is Bonanza Dude S01E12 (CBS)

Kid Nation I Just Like The Recess Part S01E11 (CBS)