Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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The return of SOTU: Oil ‘addiction’
A post on Andrew Sullivan's blog last week got me thinking: Is "addiction" the right word?Bush's SOTU statement that "America is addicted to oil" was treated as the Big News of the speech, as though he'd admitted to some deep dark secret. Even groups hostile to his administration lauded him for it; many of them have used the metaphor themselves.
But it strikes me as an extraordinarily poor way of describing the problem. It's imprecise in a way that serves Bush's interests in subtle but important ways.
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Super Bowl hybrid commercial, warm and fuzzy edition
This one just makes me feel icky:
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Super Bowl very not hybrid commercial
This, on the other hand, was vomitous:
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Super Bowl hybrid commercials
The Ford commercial with Kermit got all the blogospheric press, but I think this hybrid ad from Lexus was much cooler:
