Only in America do people order double cheese burgers with bacon, large fries, and a diet coke.
Only in America do we have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Most Americans make regular purchases of bottled water, making it a $9.2 billion dollar market annually. The FDA has some broad regulations for bottled water, and has established an allowable level of contaminants, including chemical, physical, microbial and radiological. Bottled water is also one of the few foods that the FDA has very little regulation for standard of quality.

In Europe the legal drinking age is 16, most of the world has the legal drinking age set at 18 with the exceptions of a few countries, like Japan and Iceland, where the age is 20, and South Korea at age 19, the US has the highest drinking age in the world, set at 21 years old. There are even a handful of countries that have no age limit. In efforts to prevent drunk driving and car accidents due to drunk driving, the US has taken on an extremely conservative approach to the …

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, now 79, was released from prison today, June 1, 2007, after an eight year sentence. This poor senior citizen, because of his compassion for people, and his willingness to help the suffering was locked up. It is unfortunate that our legal system finds it necessary to punish such a display of sympathy. An admirable man, no doubt, most people will live their whole life and never have displayed such kindheartedness towards another human being, with no regard for the punishment on himself. For Kevorkian it was an …

Mexico City, Mexico - Miss USA, Rachel Smith fell flat on her ass during the evening gown portion of the Miss Universe pageant but quickly recovered and went on to become a top five finalist. Throughout the rest of the competition Miss USA was booed vehemontly by the audience. 

According to a Yahoo! article, we are a nation of horrible spellers, we can’t even spell the biggest retailer in this country correctly… Check out this list of common typo’s in the search engines.