#Americans will go to extraordinary lengths to support their orange king. #Trump is breaking law daily and Americans just look away.
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Ah, the pinnacle of American culture: cookie jars 🍪. Yet another deep dive into the thrilling world of porcelain containers that nobody asked for. Thank goodness 2023 is the year we finally get to the bottom of this glaze-coated enigma! 🏺🎉
https://www.eater.com/23651631/cookie-jar-trend-appreciation-collecting-history #cookiejars #AmericanCulture #porcelaincontainers #2023thrills #glazeenigma #HackerNews #ngated
How Cookie Jars Capture American Kitsch
New cookie jars from brands like Supreme and Pillsbury are part of a cookie jar revival as vintage cookie jars still hold sway, but finding cookies inside any of these kitschy containers is unlikely.
Eater
“Christianity Is for Rubes; Buddhism Is for Actors”: U.S. Media Representations of Buddhism in the Wake of the Tiger Woods’ Scandal
Buddhism was here deployed in the service of a pre-existing narrative of conflict between conservatives and liberals and, by making appeals to secular scholars to define Buddhism, Buddhist voices were obscured or ignored. Finally, despite having their own media outlets, U.S. Buddhists were unable to effectively counter such representations either by perpetuating pre-existing media narratives nor by ignoring them altogether.
The Open Buddhist University