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50 Reasons We Love America

Our definitive list of the homegrown innovations, trends, people, and places that has us hoisting our Coors Lights (brewed here!) to toast the good ol' Stars and Stripes.

There's no shortage of things for Americans to gripe about these days: the crummy job market, swine flu, another season of Wife Swap. But for every headache, there are a dozen reasons why there's no place on earth we'd rather be.

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50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Kooky hybrids: Labradoodles, the Ford Escape, tomaccoes, skorts.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Weekend-warrior wardrobe: Hanes V-necks, Levi\'s, Converse One Stars, Burt\'s Bees lip balm, Ray-Ban Wayfarers

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Black-eyed Susans, California redwoods, saguaro cacti

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The fact that 64% of us have deep-fried a turkey or know someone who has.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Office Oscar pools

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture \r\nAnnie Hall

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Shia LaBeouf

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Ladies\' book clubs—where we consume more Pinot than pages.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Self-effacing,Jimmy Stewart—style airline captains who land planes on the Hudson River.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The Boston Marathon—26.2 grueling miles followed by 26 pints of Sam Adams

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The Lazy Meadow Motel\'s tricked-out airstreams in the Catskills, owned by Kate Pierson of the B-52s. Tin roof, not rusted!

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Superfan merch: terrible towels, cheeseheads, foam fingers

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Dance legend Judith Jameson

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Samoas, Thin Mints, Tagalongs

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Dumb blogs that spawn fat book deals (LOL Cats, Stuff White People Like, This Is Why You\'re Fat)

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The Snuggie/Slanket smackdown

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Our national hot messes, from Judy Garland and Joan Crawford to Brit and LiLo.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture A grandma in the White House

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Drive-through everything (Dunkin\' Donuts, liquor stores, wedding chapels).

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Chronicles of the rich, from The House of Mirth to Gossip Girl.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Politically active Jersey boys Bon Jovi and The Boss

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Blueberries (brain food—who knew?!)

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Great pants-wearing dames Katharine Hepburn, Slim Keith, Lauren Bacall.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Wet n Wild - 22 shades of nailpolish, all 99 cents a pop.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The Bell Jar

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Comebacks, à la Alec Baldwin, Jason Bateman, Robert Downey Jr., Lil\' Kim, Mickey Rourke, shoulder pads, neon . . .

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Gmail video chat, for instant feedback on those harem pants (return them!)

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The wildly imaginative Julie Taymor

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Over 1100 iPhone apps and counting (though we\'d be content with just Tetris and Urbanspoon).

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Joan Didion

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Calling BS on the Bradley effect on November 4

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Ponytails through baseball caps.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The original neo-R&B badass, Mary J. Blige.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Puppy cam Zen

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Facebook activism (click here to stop global warming)

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture That the two most powerful Republicans in the Senate are stem-cell-supporting greenie females from Maine (Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe).

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Lourdes, Malia, Sasha, Suri.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Miranda July—whose performance art we actually like!

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Cole Haan heels with Nike Air Shox.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Pointy bras on Mad Men

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture \"Beach read\" as genre (Dan Brown, Jodi Picoult, Curtis Sittenfeld . . .)

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Spanx

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Billy Wilder, the original rom-com director.

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The Biggest Loser

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture American Top 40

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Patti Smith

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Affordable designer duds: Vera Wang for Kohl\'s, Ashley Paige for Target, Charlotte Ronson for JCPenney

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Gertrude Stein

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture Ginger vs. Mary Ann, Veronica vs. Betty, Mary vs. Rhoda

50 Reasons We Love America

america, usa, things we love, 50 best, culture, world, news american culture The fact that a person who is half-Muslim, half-Jewish, 1/16 Cherokee, part German, and a quarter Kenyan can be 100% American.

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