Fred Crossset Tries To Bring Some Humanity To A Bunch Of Big, Rusty Semicircles
(Thanks to Charles Scheneider for sending that one along)
(Thanks to Charles Scheneider for sending that one along)
DETROIT — Pontiac, the brand that invented the muscle car under its flamboyant engineer John Z. DeLorean, helped Burt Reynolds elude Sheriff Justice in “Smokey and the Bandit” and taught baby boomers to salivate over horsepower, but produced mostly forgettable cars for their children, will endure a lonely death on Sunday after about 40 million in sales. (NY Times)
Any way you slice it, it’s a wan bunch we’ve got running the country. It wasn’t always so. There was a reason children carried around little stuffed bears, and still do. It wasn’t a stuffed kitty or lamb or giraffe or cow. It was a bear. A Teddy bear.