[Shadow_Group] Fwd: Mark Morford: Do SUVs Make You Stupid?

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===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== 
SFGate.com - January 7, 2005 

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Do SUVs Make You Stupid?
Pointless, dangerous and vain as ever, land tanks still sell millions. Only one explanation possible
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist 
Maybe stupid is too strong a word. 
Maybe it's more like willful ignorance. More like intentional blindness. More like a calm and conscious denial in the face of a staggering stack of overwhelming facts that if you looked at for even one minute would prove that the land tanks are some of the most overrated and silly and harmful and utterly pointless vehicles on the planet. 
OK, maybe stupid is the right word. 
Because there really is no other explanation for the still-roaring success of the land tank. Still no other explanation for their bizarre popularity, for the fact that, according to the Census Bureau and despite California's legendary rep for organics and environmentalism and concerns of health and body and air, our fine and heavily Schwarzenneggered state leads the nation in new registrations for SUVs .... 
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(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/01/07/notes010705.DTL&nl=fix ) 

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