100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World

<p>What do George W. Bush Wal-Mart Halliburton gangsta rap and SUVs have in common? They're all among the hundred ways in which America is screwing up the world. The country that was responsible for many if not most of the twentieth century's most important scientific and technological advancements now demonizes its scientists and thinkers in the twenty-first while dumbing down its youth with anti-Darwin/pro-Intelligent Design propaganda. The longtime paragon of personal freedoms now supports torture and illegal wiretapping&#8212spreading its principles and policies at gunpoint while ruthlessly bombing the world with Big Macs and Mickey Mouse ears.</p><p>At once serious-minded and satirical John Tirman's <em>100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World</em> is an insightful unabashed entertaining and distressing look at where we've gone terribly wrong&#8212from the destruction of the environment to the promotion of abhorrent personal health and eating habits to the wussification of the free press&#8212an alternately admonishing and amusing call to arms for patriotic Blue America.</p>