From President Obama’s speech yesterday on good ol’ American ingenuity:

But there’s something I want everybody to remember. Remember that it is precisely in times like these — in moments of trial and moments of hardship — that Americans rediscover the ingenuity and resilience that makes us who we are; that made the auto industry what it once was and what it will be again; that sent those first mass-produced cars rolling off the assembly lines; that built an arsenal of democracy that propelled America to victory in the Second World War; and that powered our economic prowess in the first American century.

And then there’s this story thanks to reader JB:

NEWARK, Ohio — Police say a Newark man had one too many for the road when he buzzed down a city street — aboard a motorized barstool.
Kile Wygle, 28, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and driving while under suspension after police were called March 4 to assist paramedics tending to a wounded man.
Wygle was injured when he attempted to make a U-turn on his motorized barstool and crashed in the street near his home on Kelley Lane, police said.
According to a report by Officer Michael Trotter, Wygle told him that his homemade contraption can hit 38 mph, but that he was only traveling about 20 mph when he wrecked the evening of March 4.
At Licking Memorial Hospital, where Wygle was treated for minor injuries, he chuckled about his barstool and told Trotter that he had “more like 15″ beers prior to the wreck. Wygle refused to take a blood-alcohol test.

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