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Through a windscreen darkly
Power Line — In his weekly column Mark Steyn meditates on the word of the year. That would of course be "bailout." Mark draws on some great songs and jingles that will be ringing in my head the rest of the day in order to draw the contrast between America then and now. He also draws on the lament by Herb London that we posted earlier this week. Mark's column is "We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan." Via Lucianne.

Mark Steyn's holiday cheer
Betsy's Page — Steyn has a typically biting , yet funny look at all the bailing out going on. "See the USA in your Chevrolet!" trilled Dinah Shore week after week on TV. Can you still see the USA in your Chevrolet? Through a windscreen darkly. General Motors now has a market valuation about a third of Bed, Bath & Beyond, and no one says your Swash 700 Elongated Biscuit Toilet Seat Bidet is too big to fail. GM has a market capitalization of about $2.4 billion. For purposes of comparison, Toyota's market cap is $100 billion and change (the change being bigger than the whole of GM). General ...

Steyn's Latest: My Nominee For Column of The Year
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Though NewsBusters is normally in the business of critiquing the liberal media, not praising the conservative, I want to ensure that as many of our readers as possible have the pleasure and benefit of reading Mark Steyn's recent column: We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan. ...

Winter Solstice links
Maggie's Farm — ... annual 124 cow feast. Pre-industrial CO2 levels were same as now. How come nobody says so? The war against Rush begins Kristof: We liberals are personally stingy. Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates Hilarious. Steyn on Bailoutistan Hilarious. Terrapass at Powerline Wierd medical story du ...

Winter Solstice links, updated regularly today
Maggie's Farm — ... CO2 levels were same as now. How come nobody says so? The war against Rush begins. He's too popular, too smart, and too amusing. Kristof: We liberals are personally stingy. Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates Hilarious. Steyn on Bailoutistan Hilarious. Terrapass at Powerline. A greenie scam if there ever was ...

Pedal To The Metal
small dead animals — December 21, 2008 Pedal To The Metal "You can get it in any color as long as it's red. " Posted by Kate at December 21, 2008 8:36 AM Comments Post a comment Before submitting, review the post to ensure your comment is on topic and does not contain words that might get caught in the spam filter (eg: insurance, viagra, online, poker). This is not a forum or a repository for off-topic link dumps. Profanity is discouraged. Take your extended debates and/or flamewars to private email. Thankyou. Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:

"Bailoutistan"
Daimnation! — This Mark certainly can write. And choose songs well: Mark C. Damian adds: from SDA:

Looking Through a Glass Darkly
No Runny Eggs — ... about the wages that are actually paid to workers that are assembling cars today.  While that is a labor rate, it’s not the one that is used by accountants in determining costs.  The labor that is 60% higher includes not only the costs of the people on the line today but also includes the costs of providing retirement benefits for folks who worked that line year and year ago. Mark Steyn provides some information of how challenging the Big 3’s labor issue is in a column from Friday: General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old ...

AP Flunks ‘Meltdown 101′ in Comparing US and Foreign Car Companies
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... A week ago, Mark Steyn observed that Toyota's market capitalization was over $100 billion. In today's trading as of shortly after noon, GM was down about 15%, pegging its worth at about $1.7 billion. ...