Archive for the tag 'consumerism'

Truth

Yes, a moment of truth.
(Sheesh. What some people will do for a shot at a free iPod. And I don’t even like iPods. I’m perfectly happy with my crummy old Zen Xtra, “with Its Large, Blue Backlit LCD Screen.” Really, I am.)

Resolution

On December 31, I thought about resolving to be even lazier in 2007 than I was in 2006, but I never got around to it.

Hummer

H1 down, H2 and H3 to go.

Katrina vanden Heuvel over at The Nation isn’t optimistic:
The good news out of Detroit is that the largest version of the Hummer—the 10,000 pound, less than 10 mpg, $150,000 Hummer H1—is being scrapped by General Motors due to lagging sales.
But, on the flip side, sales for the entire Hummer [...]