1. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau
2. America…just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson
3. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. P.J. O’Rourke
4. In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses. Calvin Trillin
5. My country, ‘tis of thee
   Sweet land of felony
   Of thee I sing
   Land where my father fried
   Young witches and applied
   Whips to the Quaker’s hide
   And made him spring.

   Ambrose Bierce

6. In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. Marlene Dietrich
7. Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. Paul Fussell
8. The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing. Gamal Abdel Nasser
9. The Americans are certainly great hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. Oscar Wilde
10. Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive there’s something wrong with him. Art Buchwald
11. Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology. Clive James
12. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment, but Americans eat fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. John Cage
13. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. Russell Baker
14. When good Americans die they go to Paris; when bad Americans die they go to America. Oscar Wilde

Could it be that people are going back to CDs, or (more likely) illegal downloading of non-protected MP3 files?

Of course, I still have all my music that I purchased the old fashioned way… on CD.

Looks like URGE, Napster, and Rhapsody are equally frustrating.

– The FBI says fugitive polygamist Mormon sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs has been arrested in Las Vegas, The Associated Press reports.

I wonder if he was caught because Vegas no longer allows stealth 3AM weddings.

Overheard at the Vegas police station: “But they were open for my last wedding honey…”

… blah blah. FYI this. FYI that.

Thanks,
Bill Sales-Guy
(XXX) XXX-1234 (blackberry)
(XXX) XXX-1235 (office)
Such-n-Such Corp.

Of course… they didn’t actually write anything below the blah blah. Their e-mail software added it on for them. Makes the receiver feel real special that they are appreciated.