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 Send to email | Self-esteem, How We Need Thee in Planet Earth |  By Thoughts
el 12-Jul-2008 | Shorter Matthew DeBord: If GM stops making the Hummer, the French will win WWII.
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…it would be a mistake for GM … to sell the brand to an upstart carmaker in India or China or to breed it as a hybrid, as some have suggested. GM desperately needs an obnoxious, attention-grabbing brand to keep from turning into a dreary shadow of its former self. And America needs the Hummer to remind us of what has always made our automobiles stand out, from the tailfin 1950s to the muscle car 1960s and '70s: swagger. Also poor maintenance records, low fuel economy, and declining profits.
Americans don't just drive their cars -- they proclaim something about themselves by driving them. For instance, DeBord clearly cares more about corporate jingoism than quality, long term costs in fuel and maintenance, or apparently the fiscal viability of General Motors.
It takes a certain kind of man -- it's almost always the owner of a Y chromosome -- to take a gander at the Hummer, in all its broad, burly, paramilitary gas-guzzling glory, and see himself behind the wheel, striking fear and loathing in the hearts of ecologically sensitive motorists. … Every once in while, you see a little guy clambering out of a Hummer, painfully in need of a ladder, and you realize that it can also be viewed as a $57,000 ticket to enlarged self-esteem. And lest you think that this abbreviation doesn't do justice to the other examples of Hummer owners on offer – Sylvester Stallone and the Governator – consider the fact that years of steroid abuse have surely shriveled their genitalia like raisins. People who really care about self-esteem don't think it's measured as the inverse of fuel economy. Read the comments on this post...
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| Self-esteem, How We Need Thee | | Shorter Matthew DeBord: If GM stops making the Hummer, the French will win WWII.
Honestly:
…it would be a mistake for GM … to sell the brand to an upstart carmaker in India or China or to breed it as a hybrid, as some have suggested. GM desperately needs an obnoxious, attention-grabbing brand to keep from turning into a dreary shadow of its former self. And [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Jul-2008 by Thoughts in Planet Earth
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| SanDisk to Samsung: No Way Jose |  Samsung was recently jilted by SanDisk, one of our favorite SD card and flash storage manufacturers, in a takeover attempt. SanDisk turned down nearly $6 billion from Samsung saying that it wasn’t really adequate - in many respects. It seems SanDisk doesn’t have any self-esteem issues there. Samsung has offered a $26-per-share cash sum but [...]
[..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Sep-2008 by Marc Flores in NewsOpinionsSamsungSanDiskSD Cards
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| Today Was Nazi, Bikini Lady, Toilet Paper [Night Note] | | To: Crecente
From: Ashcraft
This morning: Went to the gas station. Another customer, a man on a motorcycle pulled up. He was wearing S.S. Nazi garb — shit thee not. His jacket had an eagle on it with the S.S. insignia and a swastika. An inscription read "In Hitler Solidarity." Maybe he doesn't know, maybe he can't read German! :/
This afternoon: [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-May-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in night noteNote
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| July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat | | 1783: A young French nobleman demonstrates the first successful steamboat on the River Saône at Lyon. Fame and fortune would elude the inventor.
Claude-François-Dorothée de Jouffroy, the Marquis d’Abbans, was serving in the infantry in 1772 when multiple infractions of military discipline sent him to the prison near Cannes. While watching convicts rowing galleys there, he [. [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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