As of June 1, 2010, the Total Public Debt Outstanding was approximately 88.9% of GDP, and for the first time exceeded $13 trillion. Yes, you read that right: the national debt for the United States is now 90% of the total economic output for a year.
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Generation Y is sick, yo! We’re 70 million Americans strong, born between 1981 and 1992, and always have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ back:
On the heels of our own anonymous_banker’s expose of the Bros Icing Bros phenomenon, and the media firestorm that resulted.
One artist, however, has taken the bros icing bros to a heights of self-parody hither to unseen in this fad. Katie, of Sorry I Missed Your Party and Marina Abramovi? Made Me Cry, and incidentally my current e-crush, has recontextualized the latent homoeroticism of fraternal icing in a more explicit homosexual setting. I know I’ve found my sexuality challenged by this important work, even as my hetrosexuality is at the same time reinforced by the strong, beautiful artist herself.
This is probably the greatest way to make a smore. Beats a campfire any day!
Shanghai in 1990
