Daily Briefs: One big, fat lovable America
From the comments:
philippa says: just to let u know that bomb thing and it is going to go off and destroy earth why do that for plz anserw mii coz i can not beleive u want to destroy alltha people i am really soz but anserw mii why do it and how did u build it and most of allwhen is it really going to happen thank u plz anserw mii….
It’s the seven-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. There’s nothing funny about that, despite the best efforts of capitalism to incorporate the previously disparate technologies of coin minting and pop-up books:
Depending on your standards, there’s absolutely nothing distasteful about that at all. Why they didn’t follow up with a “motorcade past the book depository” series, I have no idea. %{[ data-embed-type=”image” data-embed-id=”57150c4989121ca96b961ace” data-embed-element=”aside” ]}%Today, all Americans stand together as one people. We’re all broke, and none of us can afford crazy, spring-loaded commemorative novelty coins. But the national character is defined as much by optimism as by our propensity to make and sell novelty crap that nobody needs, and, like a bunch of smelly, dirty Tom Joads, we know better times are ahead. After the jump, a heartwarming story about Americans coming together during times of economic hardship, and a post by a guest blogger. Click here, or on the Five Man Electrical Band, and their hit single, “Signs”:
