The Chinese backed out of a takeover deal, so GM plans to shut down Hummer. The NYT says the brand sold only 265 vehicles in January.

Without the vehicle that most blatantly iconified Bush-era macho posturing and material waste, what will the Pike/Pine hipsters use as an all-purpose symbol to ridicule the hated evil mainstream America?

Oh yeah, there’s still Wal-Mart. For now.