Debate America's Best/Worst Contribution to Humanity?

[lexico]

Edgar Allen Poe

He started the genres or horror and the detective, and breathed into poetry the unique qualities of the English language employing the stress patterns and syllabe qualntities-- not the Greek or Latin patterns earlier poets tried to imitate with huge failure.

I would like to add acrylic fibered blankets and socks. They are extremely light, non-irritating to the skin, and can hold/pass air, moisture, and water much better than cotton---hence its use for clothing people on space missions. Give me acryilic socks and I am a happy camper, yay !

 

[den4]

HP Lovecraft and Clarke Ashton Smith...and Robert E Howard....
Where else can you find literature that melds horror, science fiction and an explanation for the rising tide of insanity around the world every time the stars are right and R'lyeh rises to allow the Great Olde Ones out from their cyclopean crypts?

Might even explain the insanity currently in Japan with all the irrational crimes of late...

 

[Tsuyoiko]

Philip K Dick belongs in that list too Den4.

 

[No-name]

I have played paintball with his son Chris.

 

[drain_away]

The best is probably music, like Jazz or Blues. I really like those both.
The worst is definitely President Bush and his idea that we have the right to run around the world screwing other people over in the name of justice. Thank God I've been in China for the past month; I haven't had to hear a single thing about him. That has made me very VERY happy.

 

[lexico]

Gummie goos from road kill, blezschk !

The worst invention would be rendering technology of boiling down animal remains for commercial use for such things as paint, lipstick, doggie food, buillion, locorice, and gumimie (2,000 different products !). Our children could be eating road-kills and Mad Cows after a good boil down ! The industry should stop trying to feed children those disgusting garbage -- very unsanitary even after the prssurized cooking... I don't even like my pressurized rice cooker. I like the old fashioned ways of making food stuff.

 

[GoldCoinLover]

The worst invention would be rendering technology of boiling down animal remains for commercial use for such things as paint, lipstick, doggie food, buillion, locorice, and gumimie (2,000 different products !). Our children could be eating road-kills and Mad Cows after a good boil down ! The industry should stop trying to feed children those disgusting garbage -- very unsanitary even after the prssurized cooking... I don't even like my pressurized rice cooker. I like the old fashioned ways of making food stuff.

eating snails? hehe