Thank Goodness for sport Utility Vehicles. They give do-gooders something to hate besides George Bush and the Constitutional amendment against gay marriage. In one day I read a newspaper article, an editorial and a magazine editorial (in the New York Times and BusinessWeek) against those terrors of the earth, the SUVs. We've been here before. Fifty years ago there were no SUVs, but there sure were big cars-with tailfins, vinyl roofs and oversize V-8s. The intellectuals ranted against these large sedans and station wagons, calling them gas guzzlers. There were books, like The Insolent Chariots. Psychologists would explain that cars were symbolic extensions of the penis, so longer cars were part of male fantasy.
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