California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new plan to bail out California? Signing some of his old crap and selling it on eBay?

 
Let’s hope Congress throws a bone to that Cash For Clunkers program, fast!  In what feels like a further sign-of-our-Ballardian-times, My Interesting Files has posted these photos of unsold cars from around the world.  The sheer acreage of unclaimed autos is staggering.  As are the numbers behind them: Sales of new cars in the UK have slumped to a 12-year low, and the number of cars rolling off production lines fell, at the tail of last year, 47.5% to just 53,823.

 
Unsold Cars From Around The World

Check out this “credit card commercial” from Derek Jarman’s “The Garden” (1990). Sums up our current situation rather well?

Our friend Douglas Rushkoff made an appearance on The Colbert Report last night. Way to go, Doug! Great show!