I'm not editorializing, I just think this is too funny not to place it somewhere I can find it easily. From the Daily Grist:
So 2003
Luxury SUVs are losing their coolThe jerk-offs who drive enormous, fuel-hogging luxury SUVs between their gated McMansions, plastic surgeons, and corporate-whore jobs -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- are slowly but surely realizing that they are, in fact, jerk-offs. Sales of all SUVs have dropped, but luxe behemoths like the Hummer H2 are taking a particularly big hit; more than half the folks who bought them and their like are opting for something a little less jerk-offy when they return to the dealer lot. Don't blame high gas prices -- if you can afford a $60,000 personal vehicle, you can afford gas. Instead, status flaunters are starting to detect the one thing that can change their behavior: the disapproval of their peers. It seems contributing to global warming, conflict in the Middle East, and aesthetic pollution is no longer cool.
And this plain sucks: I just now noticed that Environmental and Urban Economics is on the Gristmill Blogroll but not Environmental Economics. David, what's up with that?!?