Posted by TFG on 29th February 2008
Get shorter - NASCAR - Yahoo! Sports
If NASCAR wants to attract the more casual fan, it has to give them a sense of drama, and the way to do that is to compact the action, not have it drawn out over four hours and 500 miles.
Everybody wants things shorter and faster…gotta go go go get going. This Bonkowski guy should just have his wife Tivo the race while he’s out doing whatever the hell is so damn important, if he’s all worried about how long they are. How he can’t see drama in the 500-milers is a mystery. Maybe it’s a casual sense of drama, kinda ginned up and frothy, that’s missing. That’s it — NASCAR needs to be more like American Idol, or Pick A Briefcase, Stupid.
Piss on the casual fan, anyway. Does the race scene need ‘em?
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Posted by TFG on 29th February 2008
Vegas puzzle: Deadly toxin in motel room - Yahoo! News
Authorities on Friday confirmed that the deadly toxin ricin was found in a motel room most recently occupied by a man who has been in critical condition with breathing problems at a hospital for more than two weeks.
Las Vegas police said there was no apparent link to terrorist activity, and no indication of any spread of the deadly substance beyond the several vials of powder found in a plastic bag in the man’s room on Thursday. But what the ricin was doing there remained a mystery.
Nothing to see here, move along, chop-chop. Just a guy with a few vials of ricin. Got it all under control. Hit Las Vegas? Why would anyone think of terrorizing the sleepy town of Las Vegas? Nobody ever goes there anyway.
You’ll note that, in the story, there is a studious effort to avoid any - ANY - kind of identification of the sick guy with several vials of ricin in a plastic bag in a cheap-ass motel room. Muy mysterioso.
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