Archive for the ‘Awesome sites’ Category
Money, thanks wikicommons!
Some of us here at USDemocrazy don’t trust banks and instead choose to keep money under our mattresses (and believe us, these mattresses need all the padding they can get).
Still, despite an uncertain economy gripping the country most folks still rely on banks and other institutions to manage their funds.
So, as a follow-up to last week’s post about how money is spent by the U.S. government, we decided to explore how America’s money is managed. …read more.
Peter Orszag, who heads the Office of Management and Budget
We are told nothing in life is free, (except the useless advice given to us by our editors). With this in mind, we at USDemocrazy regularly set out to find websites that have real value.
With all the talk of billions of dollars being spent by the government… we wanted to find out how something of real value (our money) is being spent. …read more.
Credit Soman/wikimedia
We here at USDemocrazy have to deal constantly with the antics of our editors. They ceaselessly harass and brow-beat us over deadlines and punctuation (the bullwhip in the office should have raised a red flag with the bloggers).
It is with this in mind that we tackle the topic of this week’s Awesome Sites collection: Vexillology. …read more.
Thanks to the Austin Chronicle
We here at USDemocrazy are always looking for new ways to drown out the constant blather of our bothersome editors.
One way we like to do this is by watching movies. We will watch anything to blot out their presence.
Take Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane . It is generally regarded as a cinematic classic. Some may find it a bore, but it beats our editors any day of the week! …read more.
Thanks to Wikicommons
We at USDemocrazy are always impressed by strong leaders. For this reason, our editors are a constant source of disappointment.
So, with the news late last week of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, we decided to dedicate this week’s Awesome Sites collection from the World Wide Web to the websites of world leaders!
We’ve got all sorts… and they are quite varied and curious.
Often, we at USDemocrazy find ourselves ignoring our editors. One way we do this is by keeping up with news videos. Not only are they are both more informative and more entertaining than our editors, these videos are more relevant too.
Several good sites exist on the web featuring news video. Our favorites are thus: …read more.
We here at USDemocrazy try hard to be reliable. For example, if free ice cream is available anywhere within 50 miles, you can rely on us being there.
You can also rely on our Awesome Sites editor to assemble a cool selection of reliable websites each week. …read more.
