Anthropomorphism At The Strib

Mr. Cheer Or Die - a fellow Jamestown High School grad (two years ahead of me, if memory serves) better known, perhaps, for his Vikings Underground blog, one of the best sports blogs anywhere - has branched into politics, with the Four Hoarse Men groupblog.

He notes the Strib's curious impartation of intelligence to cars:

In the Star Tribune this past Sunday was the headline "Woman dies after I-94 crash ejects 3 from SUV". The Story does not elaborate on exactly how the SUV threw out its passengers but it did say that the "sport-utility vehicle hit a guardrail" and it was "not clear what caused the SUV to run off the road and strike the guardrail." Maybe the owners just didn't keep the SUV clean enough and the SUV had decided enough was enough.

In a world where peevish guns stalk the streets shooting innocent bystanders, and second-hand cigarette smoke lurks in bars waiting to home in on passing customers, how is a churlish car at all out of character?

I fully expect to see budget "cuts" and criticism of mass transit portrayed in the Strib as a pack of toughs prowling the streets looking for children to pummel.

Read the whole thing.

(And of course, check out his wife (and my college classmate) Jackie's Through The Garden Gate; I know less about gardening (beyond my nearly-annual salsa garden), but Jackie could very well become the Martha Stewart of the blogosphere.)

(No, I mean in the gardening and style department; I doubt you'll see Jackie perp-walking into a federal courthouse anytime soon).

(Oh, just read all three blogs and make up your own mind).

Posted by Mitch at November 28, 2005 12:22 PM | TrackBack