What gives? It's on the magazine cover, yet the article offers no details. None!
Monday, March 07, 2011
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Subaru XT four wheel drive engaged by turning on windshield wiper
Just picked up a used copy of Crap Cars. It's by Top Gear writer Richard Porter and ranks the 50 crappiest cars of all time (that were sold in the States). Number 30 was the Subaru XT. Apparently, four wheel drive was activated by pushing a button on the jet fighter gear knob (see video) or by turning on the windshield wiper (singular, as it is indeed a monoblade).
BTW, some of my favorite cars are on the list, including the Maserati Biturbo, the Aston Martin Lagonda, and the Ferrari 400.
Shark fin soup debate
Maybe you should try the salt and pepper crab (foreground) at R&G Lounge instead.
There's an article in the New York Times today about a proposed ban on shark fins in California. Two observations.
1. There's no question that something ought to be done about the cruel harvesting practice, but why isn't there any attention paid to America's (and California's) industrial agriculture system where hundreds of millions of cow, pigs, and chickens are raised in horrific conditions, fed unmentionables, injected with who-knows-whats, and slaughtered?
2. And check out this quote from the article. It's not hard to figure out on which side of the debate this reporter stands:
"...shark finning, a brutal, bloody practice of the global trade in which the fins are typically hacked off a live shark, leaving it to die slowly as it sinks to the bottom of the sea." (Emphasis added.)
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Friday, March 04, 2011
Thursday, March 03, 2011
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