Random Thoughts via Lee

A week or so ago we received one of those Fw:fw:fw:fw: “Celebrity X really nails it”-type emails from a good friend of our that made us weep for all the cyber-trees that were felled in its center-right populist name.

In this particular instance, it was Lee Iacocca blustering (“Our schools are in trouble”) and ranting about a lack of leadership in this country. After reading Lee’s screed we got to thinking about something that related to Lee, the bailouts and two historical instances to which he was central:

Private innovation, investment and initiative gave us the Mustang. A federal bailout gave us the K Car.


P.S. Full disclosure: Anyone who read P.J. O'Rourke's brutally scathing assessment of Iacocca's autobiography in P.J.'s Give War a Chance could forgive us our dim view of Iacocca.

Two turkeys for the price of one

Chris Mortensen was on the Mike and Mike Show on ESPN earlier this morning and the subject of the Thanksgiving Day NFL games was brought up and specifically the pre-ordained always-a-Kennedy-in-the-Massachusetts-Senate seat nature of the Detroit Lions on turkey day. Mortensen said that for the first time their have been some rumblings in the league office that perhaps the NFL will shake things up and get some other teams in the Thanksgiving Day mix, i.e., as punishment for the Detroit Lions being a habitual joke. (The 0-11 Lions face a 10-1 Tennessee Titans tomorrow)

We would’ve thought that parading your hapless team on to the national stage every year to be openly mocked and ridiculed by the announcers and fans alike would’ve been incentive enough to get your franchise into some sort of competitive order but apparently it is not, so we welcome this change of heart from the NFL leadership and hope that this particular turkey receives no pardon.