[Mr Rogers]

Here's the rub for Time:

"Well, that's just the problem, isn't it? The Model T...conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots.

I wonder if the author walks to work, or eats food carried by hand from the farm fields to home. BTW - I've spent time in Afghanistan, and my two oldest kids have done tours in Iraq. Is it just me, or is the author's concern for the sand under my boots less than sincere?

[Greg F]

It is likely that the article’s author doesn’t do as much good in the world as he would if his sole job were just to lick the sand from soldier’s boots.

[pineybill]

I’m wondering the exact same thing - I guess the esteemed writer at Time would rather have passed the last century by avoiding horse crap in the streets and the diseases it carried then the wonders of the modern age. Why stop with the car -maybe we could have done without electricity -look at all the energy that uses - and avoided all the complications of let’s see -refrigeration, air conditioning, aviation. Women could still shop at a local market every day and take the wash down to the river on the weekend and do it over one of those old washboards - sort of a world only the Taliban dreams about today.
What a jerk that guy is.

[the invisib1e hand]

wow. can’t believe that line is in there. typical leftist psycho-rant. if I’d known it was like that, I wouldn’t have come near this thread.