A HYBRID DUESENBERG IN THE OFFING????

The New York Times finally says things about DDT

that the rest of us have known for at least five years. And they belatedly trash the inaccurate Rachael Carson book of the 70s---Silent Spring-- that earned a slavish rep as a Bible, the use of which has caused unknown damage to the human race. This work of fiction posing as science has been trashed by all real scientists since its publication, but real science means nothing to the Liberal Left, it is still on Ivy League reading lists and AlGore quotes it ad nauseum in his Inconvenient Truth. Even our government trashed both the false research and the absurd conclusions back in the 70s. Nobody outside the scientific community paid attention. Not to worry, the Bald Eagle stands alone as a beneficiary of the junk science contained in this pulp science pamphlet. In fact the bald eagle is regarded as a pest and their massive droppings as an environmental menace in many places of the Northwest.

BTW, the suspicious news about Al Gore's kid driving an environment friendly Prius complete with illegal drugs at a 100mph speed is possible. Two guys at work say they have driven their Prius Envirowagons at that mind bending speed; the joker is that it took each of them almost ten minutes of pedal to the metal to achieve the mach 1/6th speed. Zero to a hundred in ten minutes sounds cool to me.

Speeds in excess of 100mph have been attainable for nearly a century---if-- if you had the time. I used to live in a town where a pretty famous car re-habber by the name of Flip Hatton cast his net. He rebuilt an old 1920 something Duesenberg, THE car of choice for millionaires of that period, and I rode with him the 119 miles up to Frisco. (It looked exactly like the pic below, (supercharged) except the original paint job looked like shit) The purpose of the trip was to piss off the cops, reach the highest speed known to man, and have one hell of a glorious death. We achieved our target speed at Gilroy, which was twenty minutes from our start point in Monterey. That old car had like twenty cylinders and was simply THE tits of the era. Their sales brochure said it all:

“It is a monumental answer to wealthy America's
insistent demand for the best that modern
engineering and artistic ability can provide...
Necessarily, its appeal is to only a very few. Any
masterpiece can only be appreciated by those who
understand the principles upon which its greatness
is based. Therefore the ownership of a Duesenberg
reflects discernment far above the ordinary...”

I can't wait for the hybrid Duesenberg. Put me down for two. My asshole left wing ex-wife wants the hybrid Rolls which she will get right after the hybrid NASA space shot hits Mars.