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...matter how the Chrysler bankruptcy works out, there will be no reason for Americans to mourn. Chrysler is not going to die. One or two of its brands may disappear but most of them have value. The cars may run on engines built by a Japanese car company and part of what is left of Chrysler may be operated by a firm headquartered in Germany. But, each new Jeep will still be a Jeep. The fact that it is the Jeep brand sells cars and trucks...
...aside though, the Kindle bothers me most because it ruins the organic experience of reading. To those who might celebrate the Greenness of the Kindle, I say: I don’t care. I don’t care that it saves trees—because a lot more die from advertising, napkins, and the farming techniques of South America. I don’t care that the Kindle’s carbon footprint is less than the thousand books I can fit inside it. I don’t care that it reads like a real book?...
...final reason is Hamas itself, which has an incentive to foil our plans. All the organization has to do is what it did late last year: lob enough missiles into southern Israel to provoke an Israeli response. When that happens, the sight of Abbas standing idly by while Palestinians die pretty much wrecks his credibility. (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
...been together 12 years now. Are you thinking of getting married? We're kind of die-hard holdouts. We have so many friends who got married right before the election, and it was a really fun time. We went to a zillion parties. But I [could] see the writing on the wall, and I had a feeling that Prop. 8 was going to pass. It was a really crushing blow to our friends to go from this kind of high of exhilaration to this stunning defeat. So Lori and I feel we're going to wait until there...
...swine flu, despite the fact that two middle-class Scottish newlyweds have been isolated in a hospital for several days after having tested positive for the H1N1 virus. "It is a tragedy only for people living in slums in Asia or Mexico. But will the honeymoon couple from Edinburgh die? No. A couple of Strepsils will do the job," he said, suggesting that all they have to do is suck on the popular candy-flavored, over-the-counter throat lozenges...