Odd hybrid
Published 9:51 pm Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Chrysler’s bringing back the Dodge Dart, that sensible but dull 1960s car that your grandma drove. Chrysler says it will use the Dart name on a new compact car based on Italian technology.
An Italian Dodge Dart sounds like culture clash on the order of Spanish lutefisk or Japanese shepherd’s pie, but there you have it.
Could be worse: Year-end bonuses at the Wall Street investment banks will be smaller this year.
In these austere times, The Buzz encourages the banksters to count their blessings. Here’s Blessing No. 1: I am thankful I am not currently incarcerated in a medium-security penal institution.
For sale: Historic art-deco streamlined ferry. First party with $1, a towboat and at least one working bilge pump takes it.M/i>
Yes, the Kalakala, currently sinking at its mooring in Tacoma, can be yours.
Too bad we can’t make the banksters buy it. Some of them probably should be spending the rest of their lives chipping away at rust.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
