General Motors announced this week that its negotiations to sell the Hummer brand to a Chinese company have fallen through, and barring a Saab-Stryker-type save, it seems highly likely the brand will die. (Cue exaggerated rejoicing from the usual quarters.) Yeah, yeah, rape the planet and all that, but the bottom line is that Hummers … Read more
So have you encountered the uproar over chef Beppe Begazzi’s recent comments on the Italian version of Ready Steady Cook? He recommended cat as a “succulent dish,” offering casserole preparation tips and what-not. A bunch of humorless malcontents with miserable lives flooded the station with complaints, the station told Begazzi to apologize, he refused, and … Read more
I used to sell cars. I’ve written of it a time or two, though not in a long while. There were about 20 months between when my life as a college student ended and my life as a technical writer began, and for some of those months I sold Acuras. I graduated from college in … Read more