More cash, another clunker

For the first few months, the Obama administration seemed to be a mirror of the President himself – in control, cool, confident, reasonably together (if predictably conservative). Things ticked along pretty seamlessly, perhaps because they were being conducted in secret, or because people are bored with our two wars, or because there wasn’t a whole [...]

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Cash for clunkers

There’s four billion dollars of our money being spent as of July 27 to encourage consumers to “trade up,” fuel economy-wise, on their old cars. The program is the “Car Allowance Rebate System” (CARS, get it?), and it starts on July 27 even though it’s now being ballyhooed by car dealers nationwide as a way [...]

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RIP Pontiac

So researchers have found that belly button lint is caused, basically, by hairs on the stomach that move and trap lint in the belly button. People who shave their stomachs have substantially less belly button lint than people who do not shave their stomachs. This is the beauty of science. It answers the questions you’ve [...]

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A Fresh Federal Fleet!

Gee thanks President Obama! In addition to giving an ass-ton of money to these failing car companies to prop up their discredited business models, you’re putting a thrilled federal employee in the driver’s seat of a new Ford Focus! From the WaPo:
By June 1, the government plans to spend $285 million in stimulus funds to [...]

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The lockout

Want a nice new LeBaron? Too bad, because epically failing industrial disaster Chrysler has announced it’s closing down production for at least a month. This means you’ll have to settle for a car already on the lot. Following suit, Ford’s closing plants for at least a week in January and epically failing industrial mega-disaster GM [...]

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Blaming the workers

It was an obscenely early hour of the morning. In New Orleans. Staring a five-hour car trip in the eye, we flipped on CNN to get some information. And boy, were we informed. It’s possible that you may have glazed over the recent to-do about a possible “bailout” (secured loans, really, but who’s counting? Certainly [...]

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Automotive Idol

Women’s liberation proponent John McCain has a bizzare plan for energy independence. 300 million dollars for developing “a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.” Clearly he’s thinking Ansari X-Prize. That was only 10 million dollars, but more than 10 times that [...]

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