From Dick Locher of the Chicago Tribune comes a cartoon complement to Judith Warner's essay in the New York Times last Friday, declaring that SUVs have outlived any "utility" owners may once have derived from them.
Cartoon Tuesday
Cartoon Tuesday: Outmoded
By Ben Fried
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