Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
It is Demagoguery 101 to identify an unpopular minority to blame for problems. The president has chosen to blame “speculators” — aka investors; anyone who buys a share of a company’s stock is speculating about the company’s future — for Chrysler’s bankruptcy and the dubious legality of his proposal. Yet he simultaneously says he hopes that private investors will begin supplanting government as a source of capital for the companies. Breathes there an investor/speculator with such a stunted sense of risk that he or she would go into business with this capricious government?
Its chief executive says: “If the Japanese can design (an) affordable, well-designed hybrid, then, doggone it, the American people should be able to do the same.” Yes they can — if the American manufacturer can do what Toyota does with the Prius: Sell its hybrid without significant, if any, profit and sustain this practice, as Toyota does, by selling about twice as many of the gas-thirsty pickup trucks that the president thinks are destroying the planet.
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On a slight tangent, I saw on TV the other day that Ford, the auto that DIDN’T take bailout money, sold more pickups in March(?) than Toyota.
Yup, very proud that I drive a Ford, very proud.
- tim | 05/08/2009 @ 12:21Yeah, it seems there definitely might be a business model or two worth emulating over at Ford. According to this, the clobbering of Toyota is overall and not limited to pickup sales.
For me, when I go car shopping it’s really all about keeping the damn thing out of the shop over the asset lifetime. Miles-per-gallon is a close second behind that…and my expectations are absolutely sky-high for both. I’ve been spoiled rotten on both fronts. Sad thing is, assuming Ford woke up one morning and decided motorists like myself represented a market worth pursuing, it will take five or ten years to prove that they are so pursuing, and doing so in a way that will prove effective and beneficial for the consumer’s interest.
But all these recent news items make a powerful case for keeping an open mind toward what Ford is doing. They’re certainly giving it a good effort and achieving some worthy results.
- mkfreeberg | 05/08/2009 @ 12:30