See the USA in your Chevrolet

A must-read article by Mark Steyn about the decrepitude of the U.S. auto industry, the newspaper business, the states of California and New York, and the general marasmus of America. (Just learned that word today and couldn't wait to use it.) The jihad-fighting crooner writes:

See the USA from your Chevrolet: An hereditary legislature, a media fawning its way into bankruptcy, its iconic coastal states driving out innovators and entrepreneurs, the arrival of the new Messiah heralded only by the leaden dirge of “We Three Kings Of Ol’ Detroit Are/Seeking checks we traverse afar”, and Route 66 looking ever more like a one-way dead-end street to Bailoutistan. Boy, I sure could use a poem by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis right now, even one of the lesser-loved ones.

“I feel like I lost my country,” said the Hudson Institute’s Herbert London the other day, wondering whatever happened to the land of opportunity and dynamism.

We hear you. What a falling off was there.

But cheer up. There's always youtube, which provides us with this testimony to our past vitality:



And while we're on the subject of Dinah Shore . . . any excuse will do to post another Sinatra video.



h/t: Atlas Shrugs