The Ultimate Sin: An SUV

Volumnist David Brooks is so outraged by the the anti-SUV rampage, he's thinking about buying one.

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January 22, 2003, 5:00 AM PST

"The campaign against the SUV is so fevered that I find myself being propelled in an equal and opposite direction. Princeton's Peter Singer, the most mysteriously prestigious thinker in America, wrote an essay in which he helpfully pointed out that SUV drivers kill far more people than the Sept. 11 hijackers. Arianna Huffington, leading those who have kitchens the size of Texas on a crusade against people who have cars the size of Colorado, has also compared SUV drivers to terrorists... This anti-SUV fervor strikes me as a classic geek assault on jock culture. Here are the geeks: thoughtful, socially and environmentally conscious."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: The Scarlet SUV

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 in Wall St. Journal

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