Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘United States’
How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company 
Tags: Bankruptcy, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, Cruze, general motors, United Auto Workers, United States 
Comments OffDirections Are For Wusses
September 10th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Stopping for directions is the pussy’s way out. Don’t believe me? British insurance firm Sheilas’ Wheels (if my Crocodile Dundee is correct, “Sheila” means “girl”) looked at male drivers in Britain and found that the average man drives an extra 276 miles per year because he won’t stop for directions. With the pansies they have [...]
Posted in Everything Else Tags: Britain, Crocodile Dundee, manliness, maps, United States 2 Comments »Ford’s Realism and the Anger of EV Geeks
June 11th, 2010 Aaron Turpen In an exchange between Ford Motor Co’s CEO Alan Mullaly and Mahalo’s CEO Jason Calacanis at All Things Digital, Ford’s head man said the unthinkable: electric cars will take a while (quite a while) to become market dominant. This immediately created excited commentary amongst the EV geeks around the ‘Net. When the story hit Auto [...]
