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Saturday, September 20, 2003
 

Can SUVs remain fashionable when only unfashionable people drive them?.

Speaking of SUVs... (see below), at a recent gathering in suburban New Jersey I noticed that nearly everyone else had arrived in an SUV.  The drivers were overwhelmingly middle-aged married suburbanites with children.  When one encounters a young, good-looking, city-dweller the chances are very high that he or she will be driving an inexpensive compact car of some sort.  If you see an SUV in the distance but can't see the occupants because the glass is too heavily tinted, chances are that it is 35-year-old mom and two kids.  A Suburu sedan, by contrast, is often occupied by a young single urbanite.

How much longer can the popularity of SUVs continue?  Many of the drivers are getting so old that their fragile bones really can't handle the stiff suspension and harsh ride over bumps (my 40th birthday is in a week and whenever I'm picked up from the airport in a BMW X5 or similar I can't believe how little isolation is provided from potholes, etc.; it is actually more jarring than landing the DA40 at 67 knots).

So how is that SUVs remain in fashion when 99% of the owners of SUVs are unfashionable?

[Philip Greenspun Weblog]

This post, and the comments made, provide an illuminating look at the sick, twisted minds of leftists.
10:51:10 PM    comment ()


ANOTHER NATION-BUILDING "TRIUMPH". This doesn't appear to be working out so well, either:

When U.S. troops landed in Haiti nine years ago Friday, Kesnel Wilson believed they would help his hapless country recover from years of military-backed rule.

Today, he feels abandoned as he watches U.S. assistance dwindle and his poverty-stricken country sink deeper into despair.

"The United States was right to intervene. But it was wrong to lead us into believing it would help us rebuild our nation," said Wilson,... [The Light of Reason]

Haiti was one of President Clinton's first invasions of a foreign country. It was acts of aggression like this that President Bush, as a candidate, promised he wouldn't continue. Not that I believed him.
10:27:01 PM    comment ()


Iraqi Councilwoman Wounded in Attack [AP World News]

Perhaps the Feds will start assigning US soldiers to protect their Iraqi puppets the way they do with Hamid Karzai, the puppet ruler of Afghanistan (or more accurately, of Kabul).
7:55:27 PM    comment ()



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