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