Spoonfed

All marketing, no goods

Ford is spending a lot of money to market their hybrids, like the Ford Fusion. It looks like a pretty great car. And there are lots of tax incentives to buying a hybrid right now.

But just try and find a single dealership in Colorado that has one even to test drive. It was a problem in August, 2007 -- apparently it still is.

Is this mess over?

Did you see the front page headline of The Denver Post this morning? It epitomizes the reason that print newspapers are going extinct: "The Ecomony: Is this mess over?"

Yeah, sure. Obama did a press conference, and it's all fixed, nice and tidy, with a cute little headline. There you go.

Nick and the candlestick

Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath's son, commits suicide.