Saab story

After several failed attempts to sell the Saab car line, General Motors gave up and announced the death of the brand today.  The fashionable narrative shall be one of big, stupid, clodhopping GM not understanding what made Saab special, slowly strangling all its uniqueness over two decades of ownership until it finally collapsed. To be … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #66

Kill the bill! says DailyKos.  Indeed.  Terminate with extreme prejudice.  Opposition from those who think it isn’t socialist enough is still opposition, and it still generates no new law, and tick tock, tick tock… Oral Roberts died Tuesday.  He was 91.  Though he had his occasional ridicule-generating moments, I believe he was a sincere and … Read more

Tick, tock, tick, tock…

I have officially begun entertaining plausible fantasies of running out the clock on “health care reform.” The Scream unloaded on the Senate mess today, calling it “an insurance company’s dream.”  Senator Rockefeller fired back at the esteemed Dr. Dean, saying of his commentary “It’s nonsense and it’s irresponsible and coming from him as a physician, … Read more

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