American comedian/magician Penn Jillette on the demise of the Hummer in today’s Wall Street Journal:
“Hummers are stupid and wasteful and if they go away because no one wants to buy one, that’ll be just a little sad. It’s always a little sad to lose some stupid…. Although all over the world we humans have so much in common, so much love, and need, and desire, and compassion and loneliness, some of us still want to do things that the rest of us think are bug-nutty.
“Some of us want to drive a Hummer, some of us want to eat sheep’s heart, liver and lungs simmered in an animal’s stomach for three hours, some us want to play poker with professionals and some of us want a Broadway musical based on the music of ABBA. I love people doing things I can’t understand. It’s heartbreaking to me when people stop doing things that I can’t see any reason for them to be doing in the first place.
“I like people watching curling while eating pork rinds.”
Photo of Hummer stretch limo at Times Square in New York, from the Flickr photo stream of Reto Kurman.
