Americanism
Getting real about the Oakland Riots
Friday, January 9th, 2009From one of our collaborators, who lives at “ground zero” of the rioting in Oakland:
OAKLAND, CA. January 8, 2009. Okay, so I’ve heard a lot of stuff from neighbors, seen a bunch of the damage, and read a lot of stupid-ass comments on the internet from people who don’t know anything, and it’s pretty obvious [...]
Homoerotic or not? You decide.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Terrorists bump fists, but Americans bump chests? Seriously, this looks indecent. We love it when the military shows its man-love roots.
Photo courtesy of AP, and thank God for the UK’s Daily Mail.
We were right. We are screwed.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008From a Twin Cities paper, where certain parents are convinced everything is easy because it doesn’t have the silly cost of living that coastal cities do:
With more and more jobs being outsourced every day, many college grads end up in the service industry just to get by. They claim that it’s temporary, that [...]
Has Lou Dobbs always been this obnoxious?
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Because I thought his job was to read off a teleprompter, not to bomb the American public with willful misunderstanding. It appears that Dobbs takes exception to others’ taking exception to the contortion of patriotism for purposes of making Blackwater richer. See the asinine, Limbaugh-esque logic here, brought to you, oh so surprisingly, by CNN. [...]
Forgive me, Padre, for I’m a total jackass
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007You’re kidding, right, Alberto?
Alberto Gonzales’ publicist has written a disgusting suck-up-to-the-people piece for CNN’s “Hispanic Experience” series. So first of all, Hispanic what? Is this a regional thing we don’t know about? Not even the newspapers we read use “Hispanic” anymore. That’s for census and employment forms, as far as we’ve seen. Secondly, “The Hispanic [...]
Books on our list: Faludi’s Terror Dream
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Oh boy. Our girl Susan (of Backlash fame) is out with The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America and we’re going to add it to the American Heresy library ASAP.
From Yahoo’s review:
By retreating to a comfortable myth, she asserts, the nation essentially closed its eyes.
Here’s hoping she takes a stab at why we [...]
Puritans strike again, 400 years later
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – “This land is Yours!” declared thousands of Christians on Sunday as hundreds of crosses adorned the Virginia Beach shores in an historic act of rededicating the nation to God.
At least they’re historically accurate on this one. Well, sort of. The City on a Hill front hasn’t quite had enough. Because, to [...]
New video by collaborative heretics
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007This video was sent to us by Heresy operatives, I am told, as part of a mathematical project. We welcome videos and will soon be launching the AH YouTube page.