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• Monday, January 5, 2009 05:44 AM

  You Meant To and You're a Self-Indulgent Idiot

  First of all Mark, don't you feel like an idiot writing this after writing (and getting paid) for your boastful article about bikes titled "My family car is an SUB and I love it"?

  Second of all, by writing an entire article about this, you have fulfilled every stereotype about the asshole leftist white guy. After self-indulgent statements about your environmental habits, you compromise them for minor personal convenience and make more self-indulgent statements about them. You have a job in media, and used that to talk about getting a good deal on an expensive, non-essential luxury item (which was still a costly purchase).

  Your reasons for getting an SUV are self indulgent bullshit. You claim a station wagon is too small for two kids and a dog. Really? Maybe someone who has never seen a station wagon might buy your crap, but that's a weak empty excuse.

  A station wagon has plenty of space, it's just configured slightly different - and slightly more efficient way.

  As the photo with the article shows, you bought a polluting, fuel inefficient vehicle so you could put your bike in the trunk without turning it on its side.

  I am so tired of people using "family" as an excuse for their privileged, excessive notions of auto size. It's a vehicle, it's not your home (although maybe you're anticipating that eventuality).

  You're also being a jackass for even mentioning low gas prices as even a marginal reason to go anti-green. It's satisfying, however, to know this dip in prices is temporary at best and soon you'll be paying out the ass for being weak about principles, then writing a whimsical article about it.

  —softdog Read softdog's other letters
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