As I’ve just thoroughly enjoyed the opening weekend games of the NFL, I thought I’d start with a football analogy to make my case. Here is a bizarre but true factoid that exemplifies the drawing of flawed conclusions based purely on logic: If the Detroit Lions win a single game in the 2009 season, their…
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Apocalypse Detroit
Detroit is a scary city as evidenced by these incredible images by 7 contemporary photographers. Mitch Cope has put together a masterpiece, a set of photographs of the city that capture the hopelessness and devastation in a way that 1000 newspaper and magazine articles never could. In some of these pictures, Detroit looks almost like…
Can It Be? Really? A Ford Turnaround?
Here’s a new Analogy for y’all: Ford is to General Motors as The Jeffersons are to Sanford and Son While Chrysler and GM currently subsist on bridge loans from the government, Ford (F) is Movin’ On Up as their latest quarterly results came in better than expected on multiple fronts… From TheStreet.com: Ford (F) beat the first-quarter estimates…
Top 10 New Auto Models From Detroit Next Year
So with each passing day, the U.S. automakers seem to be closer and closer to a “gentle, targeted bankruptcy”, whatever the f@#% that means. Here’s a sneak peek at the 2010 models coming out of Detroit to a dealership near you:
America's Most Miserable Cities in Forbes
More depression porn…Forbes has a funny-sad slide show up of America’s Most Miserable Cities (yes, I know they all are miserable right now) and the list will not surprise you. Flint, Michigan is, as usual, right in the mix. The city that gave rise to the comic stylings of docu-slanderer Michael Moore and became a…
