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.
June 15, 2009 12:00 AM
50 Reasons We Love America
Kooky hybrids: Labradoodles, the Ford Escape, tomaccoes, skorts.
50 Reasons We Love America
Weekend-warrior wardrobe: Hanes V-necks, Levi's, Converse One Stars, Burt's Bees lip balm, Ray-Ban Wayfarers.
50 Reasons We Love America
Black-eyed Susans, California redwoods, saguaro cacti.
50 Reasons We Love America
The fact that 64% of us have deep-fried a turkey or know someone who has.
50 Reasons We Love America
Office Oscar pools.
50 Reasons We Love America
Ladies' book clubs — where we consume more Pinot than pages.
50 Reasons We Love America
Self-effacing, Jimmy Stewart-style airline captains who land planes on the Hudson River.
50 Reasons We Love America
The Boston Marathon — 26.2 grueling miles followed by 26 pints of Sam Adams.
50 Reasons We Love America
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
Superfan merch: terrible towels, cheeseheads, foam fingers.
50 Reasons We Love America
Dance legend Judith Jameson.
50 Reasons We Love America
Samoas, Thin Mints, Tagalongs
50 Reasons We Love America
Dumb blogs that spawn fat book deals (LOL Cats, Stuff White People Like, This Is Why You're Fat).
50 Reasons We Love America
The Snuggie/Slanket smackdown.
50 Reasons We Love America
Our national hot messes, from Judy Garland and Joan Crawford to Brit and LiLo.
50 Reasons We Love America
A grandma in the White House.
50 Reasons We Love America
Drive-through everything (Dunkin' Donuts, liquor stores, wedding chapels).
50 Reasons We Love America
Chronicles of the rich, from The House of Mirth to Gossip Girl.
50 Reasons We Love America
Politically active Jersey boys Bon Jovi and The Boss.
50 Reasons We Love America
Blueberries (brain food — who knew?!)
50 Reasons We Love America
Great pants-wearing dames Katharine Hepburn, Slim Keith, Lauren Bacall.
50 Reasons We Love America
Wet n Wild — 22 shades of nailpolish, all 99 cents a pop.
50 Reasons We Love America
Comebacks, à la Alec Baldwin, Jason Bateman, Robert Downey Jr., Lil' Kim, Mickey Rourke, shoulder pads, neon...
50 Reasons We Love America
Gmail video chat, for instant feedback on those harem pants (return them!).
50 Reasons We Love America
The wildly imaginative Julie Taymor.
50 Reasons We Love America
Over 1100 iPhone apps and counting (though we'd be content with just Tetris and Urbanspoon).
50 Reasons We Love America
Calling BS on the Bradley effect on November 4.
50 Reasons We Love America
Ponytails through baseball caps.
50 Reasons We Love America
The original neo-R&B badass, Mary J. Blige.
50 Reasons We Love America
Facebook activism (click here to stop global warming).
50 Reasons We Love America
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
Lourdes, Malia, Sasha, Suri.
50 Reasons We Love America
Miranda July — whose performance art we actually like!
50 Reasons We Love America
Cole Haan heels with Nike Air Shox.
50 Reasons We Love America
Pointy bras on Mad Men
50 Reasons We Love America
"Beach read" as genre (Dan Brown, Jodi Picoult, Curtis Sittenfeld...).
50 Reasons We Love America
Billy Wilder, the original rom-com director.
50 Reasons We Love America
The Biggest Loser
50 Reasons We Love America
American Top 40
50 Reasons We Love America
Affordable designer duds: Vera Wang for Kohl's, Ashley Paige for Target, Charlotte Ronson for JCPenney.
50 Reasons We Love America
Ginger vs. Mary Ann, Veronica vs. Betty, Mary vs. Rhoda.
50 Reasons We Love America
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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