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Sunday March 19, 2006 · 10:00 PM PST

2006/03/19 · 22:00

Keep flipping off Hummer owners. It's working.

For Janna Jensen, it was the dirty looks and nasty gestures from other drivers that finally persuaded her to give up the family's $55,000 Hummer H2. Her husband, Michael, meanwhile, was tired of the $300 monthly gasoline cost and the quality problems that began soon after they bought it.
So the Jensens of Reno, Nev., dumped the sport utility vehicle this year for a more modest Honda Element, still an S.U.V. but one with better gasoline mileage and a lower profile than the H2. And they are not alone.

While obscene gestures and dirty looks are playing a role, the price of gas is probably the biggest reason for the drop in sales of luxury SUVs.
Well-meaning NJ legislator introduces a bill allowing obviously pregnant women from using handicap parking spots. Inexplicably, the NJ chapter of NOW freaks out.

Absolutely ridiculous. Since when is being pregnant a handicap?

Have any of the women over at NJ NOW ever been pregnant? Because it's not about the label "handicap", it's about allowing women with limited mobility and lots and lots of pains some measure of comfort. Kind of like surrendering a seat in a bus or train to the pregnant lady who walks in.
Finally, a good local blog covering the CA-50 special election. San Diego Politics Blog.
I missed this one. In a misguided show of solidarity, Bush gave up candy when he sent US forces into the Iraq morass. And while he's kept our men and women in that meatgrinder for three long years, his candy fast lasted only seven months. (If that.)
For George Will, it was hard to come up with an analogous American parallel for Moqtada al-Sadr. Hmm, influential radical clerics with large, militant, nation-wide followings ... Dobson? Robertson? Nah, a good, scary, boogeyman for conservatives should be black or brown, and come from a bastion of liberal America. So Al Sharpton it was.

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