June 16, 2009

My Car Survives!

Given GM's ongoing bankruptcy, I was wondering if SAAB* was going to exist in any form at the end of it, or if my car would simply be an emblem of a past era, like old Studebakers. Fortunately, SAAB has found a buyer:

General Motors announced Tuesday that it had agreed to sell its Swedish unit, Saab Automobile, to a consortium led by the sports car maker, Koenigsegg Automotive.
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Koenigsegg, an unlisted company with 45 employees based in Angelholm, Sweden, turns out just a few “supercars” — high-performance sports cars costing more than $1 million each — a year.

Not only does my car's marque survive, it also gets a sexier parent company!

* "SAAB" is actually an acronym, which stands for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Corporation)

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June 5, 2009

DC Has Its Merits

For one, you have these kinds of stories going on in your backyard:

Couple accused of spying for Cuba for 30 years

A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as "incredibly serious."

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The Myerses lived in a luxury co-op complex in Northwest Washington that over the years was home to Cabinet members, judges, congressmen and senators, including the late Barry Goldwater.

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Gail Prensky, a resident of the apartment complex, was taken aback by news that neighbors had been arrested. "It's intriguing on the one hand," she said. "It's a sense of you never know who your neighbors are in a place like this, where it's so safe and pristine. And there's espionage going on?"

That sort of stuff didn't go on with my neighbors when I lived in Cambridge.

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