The Current Situation

Adios, Pendejo!

It's nice to start the working week with some good news: the world's most sleazy amnesiac, U.S. Attorney General Alberto…

18 years ago

“America to the Rescue”

This week, The Daily Show aired one of its best and most spot-on segments, America to the Rescue, a high-larious…

18 years ago

7 Wonders of the Totalitarian World

Man Hands! It's all about the giant hands: Photos from Esquire, courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Here's what these wonders…

19 years ago

Richard “Creative Class” Florida Moving to Accordion City

Richard Florida is moving to Accordion City! The urban thinker who coined the term "creative class" is following in Jane…

19 years ago

Scenes from NBC News, July 4th, 1972

The Evening News, 35 Years Ago Here's something that many (but not all) of you regular Accordion Guy readers might…

19 years ago

America: Still Number One

I've been a fan of The Economist since my last year of high school (a while back; it's the year…

19 years ago

The Missing Piece

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

19 years ago

“Oh Beautiful, for Retail Space, for Shopping Elbow Room…”

Here's a graph from a blog posting by Jim "Long Emergency" Kunstler titled Peak Suburbia comparing the retail space per…

19 years ago

"The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce"

I found the table below in the article That was Diem; This is Now below on this page thanks to…

19 years ago

Now Available at CafePress…

...the "I Went Hunting with Dick Cheney and All I Got was This Lousy Flesh Wound" t-shirt, for  US$13.99.  Also…

20 years ago