For a W or L, you don’t have to be an R or D
Published 11:13 pm Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Because The Buzz isn’t about to let the Beltway Gang corner the market on bloviating, here are our (nonpolitical) Super Tuesday winners, losers and predictions:
Winner: Barry Louis Polisar. A catchy ditty he recorded 30 years ago was chosen for the opening-credits sequence of the runaway indie hit “Juno.”
Predictions: (1) an uptick in harmonica sales, and (2) lots of YouTube videos of guys strumming this simple tune on their Christmas guitars.
Loser: The economy. The nation’s services sector shrank for the first time in about five years.
Prediction: Fewer debates over whether we are, in fact, in a recession.
Winner: The pony car. Chrysler has reincarnated the car that was the object of our automotive lust in high school: the Dodge Challenger. Alas, gas is three bucks a gallon, the economy is tanking and the new Challenger will cost about 38 grand. So we’ll stick with “Vanishing Point” on DVD.
Predictions: (1) The Challenger will flop because gas costs three bucks a gallon and the economy is tanking, and (2) your wife will hate “Vanishing Point” because the Challenger’s 440 Six-Pack gives a more expressive performance than Barry Newman.
