About Six Months From Donk Perfection

Spotted outside my office on a regular basis, this late-80s Chevy wagon is about six months from being a perfect donk. It’s got enormous wheels and a custom exhaust, and looking inside you can see that there’s an impressive stereo installed.

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Next up will be the addition of hydraulics and/or an enormous subwoofer, then replacing the upholstery and paint. But even now, the contrast between the unfashionably dowdy original car and the slick-as-hell chrome wheels draws stares. When I took these pictures, there were two other people also taking pictures.

No, I have no idea whose car this is and have never met them. But I’m really impressed with their style.

Buncha Savages In This Town, I Tellya

Apparently more than one car in the neighborhood got this treatment. I guess I should be glad that this year’s crop of undergrads is supporting a local business like Tedeschi, but it’s still irritating to find a wang drawn on my car’s windshield.
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I mean, since they’ve gone with Circus Peanuts as their medium, they could at least have picked Jumbo The Elephant as their subject.

Arguing about the end of “Edgar Sawtelle.”

As much as I try to stir debate on all kinds of topics (hello, ad-hominem attacks on Jeff Jacoby!) but the one thing that gets more people commenting here is “Edgar Sawtelle,” the Hamletesque tale of a rural Wisconsin family of dog breeders. So far, I’ve racked up thirty-nine comments. My usual average is somewhere just north of zero.

Send Jeff Jacoby To Somalia

Jeff Jacoby takes the seventh-grader’s approach to politics today by arguing that the “government which governs least, governs best.” I hope this means that he’s headed immediately for Somalia, where nongovernance has turned the nation into a libertarian paradise.

I’ve sent him a snippy letter, of course, and if it doesn’t make it into the Globe I’ll post it here later.

I understand that the WSJ has to appease the bloodthirsty maniacs who constitute its core audience, and that explains (but does not excuse) the publication of editorials denouncing civil rights and social security as the products of drunkenly irresponsible legislatures.

But is there any reason for Jacoby to get a podium in Boston? If the Globe is so hard up for cash, why not drop the waste of space and put the savings into articles on items of actual local interest by decent writers with worthwhile opinions, like Joel Brown?