a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Ha%20Ha%20Ha%20America.jpg”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Ha%20Ha%20Ha%20America.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;”From February 23, 2006 Rolling Stone: “The Grid: Our Current Obsessions – #2 – Ha Ha Ha America”/spanbr /”Jon Daniel Lignon’s docu-short from Sundance skewers American pretensions in a gleefully mistranslated diatribe hailing Chinese superiority. It’s hysterical, until you realize that it’s mostly true.”br /br /excerpt: “Here fact, China population 1.5 billion, maybe, or 1.2 billion, maybe. Either result mean America just rounding error compare to China.” (a href=”http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/film.aspx?which=402category=DOC”link/a)br /br /br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/1600/Adbusters%20March%20April%202006.gif”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;” src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1133/636/200/Adbusters%20March%20April%202006.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;”From March/April Adbusters: “McMansions”/spanbr /”As family sizes continue to fall, floor plans have increased by 39 percent since 1970 to 2400 square feet, twice the size of a baby boomer’s 1950’s childhood home. And the biggest houses of all – dubbed McMansions or New American Castles – are getting bigger still. But the must-have craft rooms, supersized kitchens, theaters, solaria, cellars, mudrooms and Hummer sized garages mean a 10,000 square foot megahome requires six times the materials of an average house and proportionally more energy. The result? 5.4 million pounds of extra carbon dioxide from 1.2 million pounds of coal and 24 million cubic feet of natural gas will be belched out into the atmosphere over the life of one monster house.”