Miscellaneous | Miscellanneous Stuff

Self-checkout machines now ask for tips in latest squeeze on customers

Consumers are now requested to leave tips at self-checkout machines at some airports, bakeries, coffee shops and stadiums across the US

The ongoing degradation of the American populace is obvious at this point; people have become so pathetically sheeplike that they will literally do anything if they feel that the group expects them to.

Politics | The Decline Of America

'Popeye' Comic Strip Getting Woke Makeover with 'More Characters Who Aren't Heterosexual'

After nearly a hundred years in existence, the "Popeye" comic strip is reportedly getting a woke makeover, with the strip's latest cartoonist promising more ethnic diversity and "more characters who aren't heterosexual."

Politics | Opinion

Westerns Are Us: What remnants of the Western endure will be the survival of American culture

In 1939, William S. Hart, a Shakespearean actor from New York who had been a key player in the making of Hollywood 20 years earlier, and for a time was…

Politics | Op-Ed

Victor Davis Hanson: What Donald Trump, classic Westerns' heroes and these American generals have in common

Hollywood epics and even some Sophoclean tragedies have a sequel. And perhaps Donald Trump will too

Miscellaneous | Random

29 Weird Things Non-Americans Love About American Culture

From getting a sticker for voting to calling pasta "salad."

Miscellaneous | Interesting Stuff

37 Things Americans Do In Movies/TV Shows That Truly Confuse Non-Americans

The answer to 90% of these is "yes, yes we do."

Yeah. We do. That’s how we like it.

Politics | Op-Ed

Victor Davis Hanson: Our Summer of Cultural Suicide

Professional sports, universities, and the motion-picture industry all know that what they are doing is bad for business. They also are ignorant of history and cannot be persuaded that they are destroying themselves.

Miscellaneous | This is stuff I like

Slang words from the 1950s that we should bring back - Insider

Slang is an ever-changing thing — but here are 10 slang terms from the 1950s that we think deserve a comeback in 2020.

Travel | Travel

Take a Digital Tour of America’s Vintage Roadside Stops

Photographer John Margolies spent decades capturing America's roadside attractions. Now all of his photos are free and in one place.

Ok, so this isn't REALLY travel, and I would definitely prefer an actual road trip, because I love road trips, but between road trips-this is fun!

Travel | Travel

Things Americans didn't realize were American until they went abroad - INSIDER

Cultural differences can lead to moments of confusion for Americans traveling abroad. Here are 10 things that have surprised Americans outside the US.

Travel | Travel

Route 66 – the US road trip favourite – is under threat

There are few journeys as quintessentially American as a road trip along Route 66, but the “main street of America” may be under threat.

Route 66 needs to be preserved. There are far things more American. I did the trip once (excluding Gallup), and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Congress needs to act while there is still something to preserve. We’re quickly losing our architectural heritage across the country. It would be a huge loss for what’s left of Route 66 disappear.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Where Has Teen Car Culture Gone?

Something is missing in the lives of today’s adolescents: that magical coming-of-age feeling when a whole world opened up.

I never thought about it before, but the whole hot rod culture has disappeared. This is why.

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture

These basic cultural precepts could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities, especially when backed up by almost universal endorsement.

This is one of the best editorials I have ever read about the reasons for the decay of American society and the, too many of us, obvious solution.