Who knew "GM" stood for Green Machines? General Motors. Continuing a theme from "The Blood Royal" of several weeks hence, once upon a time General Motors was a nimble, adaptable company, a company that not only made lemonade when given lemons, but made better lemonade at a lower price than its rivals. GM has been plenty ruthless through the decades, but scrupulousness alone did not build General Motors into, at one time, the largest corporation in the world; it was an adroit and far-sighted organization dedicated to innovation and efficiency, which begot profitability and growth beyond Willy Durant's wildest flights of fancy. More recently, GM has been subject to pillage and rapine from both above and below for decades, but even the concerted depredations of rapacious executives and suicidally truculent unions cannot quickly devour a concern as massive as General Motors; so, it was only this very year that GM, the lumbering anachronism, the industrial dinosaur, was overtaken as the world's largest automaker.

Yet, mayhap GM has a little bit of fight left in its creaking old bones? Perhaps the behemoth is not quite ready to go gentle into that good night?