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Fast food nation 05:32am on 13 Oct 2008 More of this sort of stuff please! Anything to break out of American introspection.

What is it someone once said

'People never do evil so cheerfully or completely as when they do it from religious conviction"

"They think we're a bunch of violent people," Cory added. "But we're over there to help them."
Surface tension 5:05pm on 12 Oct 2008 Ireland currently has a similar GDP to the USA - but with a much more even distribution of wealth.

They are wealthier than Americans.

Things have moved on since you were in Ireland.

The rest of your post I agree with.
Reaching out 10:32am on 12 Oct 2008 Video is very slow method of transferring information as is audio.

Reading is far faster and a lot more effective in terms us user recall.
One state, two countries 10:27am on 12 Oct 2008 Looking at it from the outside what is striking near total absence of any serious discussion of the issues.

Affordable health care is the No 1 issue for Americans - yet no journalist or politician dare ask the obvious question.

'Why do Americans pay twice as much as folks in the rest of the developed world for the worse performing health care system'

In just about any other country in the world the candidates would be hit with all sorts of hard questions - and forced to answer, not in the US though.
First anniversary 7:13pm on 11 Oct 2008 'A small place like Europe'

It's about 2,700 miles from Seattle to Washington DC

It's about 1,900miles from Helsinki to Corunna or Belfast to Istanbul - there's about 700 miles difference.
Reaching out 6:33pm on 11 Oct 2008 Great idea - but you are missing out that there are three levels of interaction on the internet which are to an extent 'mutually exclusive'

That is to say 'video' 'chat' and 'message boards/blogs'

What's also significant is the relative isolation of US communities from the rest of the world.

There are some astonishing intellects out there on the internet, many with records that stretch back 15 years or more. You don't seem to be picking up on them.

You're basically just grabbing the froth, while there is much deeper stuff out there.
Surface tension 6:18pm on 11 Oct 2008 It's interesting how large scale open cast mining occurs all across Southern Scotland (which is about the size of WV) yet the environmental laws in place manage to minimize the damage.

When I read this blog I'm always intrigued by the lack of comparisons.

The problems facing now defunct coal mining communities of Southern Scotland and Northern England have much in common those of Appalachia - whereas these communities in the UK have moved on, those in Appalachia are still stuck in the past.
First anniversary 4:34pm on 10 Oct 2008 Ah American 'success' - paying more than anyone else for the worst health care system in the developed world.

Paying more than anyone else for the worst high school system in the English speaking world. . . .

The worst poverty rates in the developed world, the largest prison population in the world, one of the worst road systems in the developed world and a rail system that is somewhere back in the 19th century.

These are as you point out, 'successes' the American public can be truly proud of.

Personally, I rather have French failure.
Something new 12:14pm on 10 Oct 2008 Well exactly. . . . . the divergence between what can be found on the internet and what is available in the US press and on TV is positively scary.

The thing is with the internet is you have to look for the information instead of having it rammed down your throat.

Fascinatingly the Hebrew press, notablly Haaretz,is way less censored in its reporting of the Palestine issue than the US press.
First anniversary 08:35am on 10 Oct 2008 I think you mean Putin's government was trying to arrive at a system of censorship the US has had for decades. . . .

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