The opening sequence from the first season of Aaron Sorkin’s short-lived HBO show ‘The Newsroom’ still seems to make the rounds on social media. It’s the sort of stuff enjoyed by self-loathing Americans or foreigners with an acute case of tall-poppy syndrome. The series garnered mixed reviews, with Jeff Daniels playing the lead character of […]
Things about America that the rest of the world SHOULD find bizarre
Earlier this year a friend shared a link to a post entitled 13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre. At first glance, it was a list of American stereotypes or cliches that made me chuckle. Growing up outside of America, I’d enjoyed discovering many of them myself when I […]