I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it’s enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. It’s like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious.”
“Why does this make you proud to be an American?”
“The infant’s brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.
Don DeLillo, White Noise
America, where are your credentials?
- Anne Sexton, The Firebombers
-Anatomy of a Hipster #202.
The fact that police won’t lay a hand on
these people:
but have no problem netting, macing, arresting, and physically harming peaceful protesters on Wall Street for no reason:
is fucking disgusting, and if you’re not ashamed to have to call yourself American yet, you’re not paying attention.
At any given moment, there are 850,000 Americans inside a Walmart store. Something weird is bound to happen.
The American Male at Age Ten
tetw:
By Susan Orlean
If Colin Duffy and I were to get married, we would have matching superhero notebooks. We would sleep in our clothes. We would both be good at Nintendo Street Fighter II, but Colin would be better than me. We would eat pizza and candy for all of our meals. We wouldn’t have sex, but we would have crushes on each other and, magically, babies would appear in our home.
good:
A lot of fearmongering in the media has Americans concerned that all our goods are imported from China. But is that really true? GOOD’s new business editor, Tim Fernholz, calls bullshit:
While Chinese goods seem ubiquitous, especially given America’s economic woes, the reality is that imports from the country are a relatively small part of the economy: A total of 88.5 percent of consumer spending in the United States is on items made here, with only 2.7 percent spent on “Made in China” goods, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco:
