Hey Jack, the deal with Russell Brand is a reminder that a lot of guys have consensual sex with women, and then years later, out of the blue, the woman decides that it was a bad thing. I’m thinking about Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh: the woman had no idea the exact date or time or place of the assault, she had no witnesses, yet she got almost $1 million from a GoFundMe. It just seems like allowing these lawsuits and legal actions, when the alleged event happened so long ago, is patently unfair to the defendant. Isn’t there a statute of limitations?
I think that a lot of the statutes of limitations on rape were removed ten or twenty years ago. Because “women are never wrong “
And the only times that women decide after the fact that the consensual sex was wrong is when the guy suddenly comes in possession of an outsized checking account.
Growing up with newspapers, the current print media is horrible. The NYTimes which once described the word "screw" – in the carnal knowledge sense – as a minor obscenity, published the text messages about the Cornell rape, only censoring who the "victim" was. Their slogan now should be "All the news that fitted to print." Years ago Mad Magazine called the Sunday morning news interview programs correctly: Faze the Nation, Beat the Press, etc. Noted New Yorker media critic A.J. Liebling said in 1960: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." The Associated Press is asking for donations for the sake of "freedom of the press" — give me a break, it was owned by wealthy newspaper publishers for years.
It seems since me too that that the movement is towards defining all consensual sex outside of marriage as rape, if so alleged by the female, till proven otherwise. Not great but maybe the upshot is hook up culture goes away. Silver linings, eh? Probably not but who knows. As with most things I blame feminists. They seemed rightly outraged by the lack of social censure for male whores but landed on a pretty terrible solution: to encourage all women to be whores. Which often leads to women regretting their sexual encounters. And sometimes regret transmogrifies into rape.
We are putting “Hates Sir Lewis Hamilton” on your headstone.
He did make some good passes at the start, until one realized that he was just passing backmarkers. Then it didn’t seem near as impressive.
Listening to him whine on the radio was certainly a highlight of the race. We get it Sir- it’s not your fault, it’s the car, or the stewards, or the guy that was in your way. Or it’s just Fred’s fault.
Luckily for Ferrari they can just tack on an extra 20% to the price of their new “F580 superleggario performance edition whatever” and sell some more horse-branded merch to cover the cost of his oversized salary.
Alonso put in a superlative performance in a subpar car. He has tended to be overlooked the last few years. It sure would be interesting to see what he did in a Mercedes or McLaren.
Ralf Schumacher is gay? Huh missed that news story.
I believe the auto companies have lost the plot. A $100,000 Mustang give me a break. I remember our neighbor’s son worked three summers (64,65,66) mowing lawns and saved evert penny to buy a new 1966 Mustang Convertible with a 289 and four speed.I was only 11 when he got the car and I was really really impressed. I know I know, those damn Baby Boomers, but really can a kid today mow lawns over three summers and save enough to but a new Mustang GT convertible?????
You can tell that F1 is kind of in a holding pattern because the interwebs are abuzz with two really pretty minor kerfluffles
1) The "controversy" at Ferrari, with Leclerc showing signs of being SICK TO TEARS of the constant "Sir Lewis Show". Everybody has an opinion, here's mine: I tend to take a really hard look at things. Regardless of how you feel about him, love him, hate him, or are indifferent to him, Lewis Hamilton is extremely long in the tooth. Leclerc has a contract with Ferrari until 2030, I believe -- meaning he's going nowhere.
In 2030, Sir lewis will be 45 for the entire season. There's no good reason to keep an athlete past their prime, beyond loyalty and sentimentality -- and nobody in F1 (besides Toto) rewards loyalty and sentimentality. Ferrari cut Vettel loose DURING the 2020 season, so it's not unprecedented for Ferrari to move on from a world champion. Will Leclerc ever win a F1 driver's championship? Maybe, but not as long as Hamilton is around "demanding respect".
2) The Liam Lawson/Red Bull soap opera. I'm on record as being a Lawson fanboi ever since Horndog/Marko did him dirty before he ever even got a seat. Laying that aside, the conundrum is this: do you renew the contract of a guy who is performing well (but not winning), who has exceeded the ceiling you thought he had already; or do you take the unproven mystery driver behind door number 2 who you believe MAY have a higher ceiling?
I have no idea of Mr. Lawson's potential as a driver, but I don't think Red Bull Racing does either. Whatever else he is, he'd workmanlike in just putting his head down and doing what he can with what he's been given. I really like that in a driver and a person -- but maybe I'm more suited to be an Idnycar or NASCAR fan, since F1 seems to be populated by guys born with a silver spoon in their mouth -- guys who "belong" in F1 (even if they don't drive like it). Fernando's observations about the bottom half of the grid are accurate -- the only reason most of those guys have a seat at all is because they have a butt-ton of money and act like they deserve to be there.
Using the same cold eye as I think I am with Hamilton is impossible here, because Lawson has never been given any opportunity (don't talk to me about 2 races in the big chair before being yanked) to know what his upside is. He's 24, which isn't young -- but the venerated "RBR Driver Development" I keep hearing so much about seems to have bypassed him completely. If anything, they've wasted several years of his life. Will he ever be on a podium? Not at RBR.
And so, contrary to what you would suspect -- I think RBR completing the humiliation ritual and cutting Liam Lawson loose would be best for everybody involved. it would have been far more humane (and perhaps even more reasonable) to have done it BEFORE Mr. Lawson's recent modest successes, but Red Bull is NEVER going to fully commit to Liam Lawson's success as a driver, because at the bottom of the well -- they don't think he deserves to be there.
I'm at a point of rooting against RBR in both teams. I'm a huge Max fan, and hope he continues to heap scorn and disdain on the team at every opportunity. I think Max IS F1 at this point, and sort of hope he walks away, blackens F1's eye on the way out, and makes endurance racing a huge sport again. I hope the Red Bull junior team gets their young hot rod, and I hope he's the second coming of Lance Stroll, with a DNF every race. I'm at the point of wishing whoever is pulling the strings at Red Bull (is it still Helmut?) gives up and goes back to pumping "extreme sports", like a Hermes Johnny Knoxville.
I think both Lewis and Liam should go to Indycar. I'd like to see Indycar become relevant again. Heck -- with Sir's money, he could buy the whole thing from old man Penske, and make it his very own vanity project. Indycar should be the 'murican F1 -- I'd love to see Cadillac and Ford and Dodge and Honda and Toyota duking it out with a decent rules set.
Anyhow, that last paragraph was pure digression and fantasizing. F1 will remain our fixation until Indycar and/or endurance racing gets fixed. F1 teams will continue to incinerate huge sums, and F1 as an organization will continue to suffer from the conflicted and self-hating neurosi, mirroring Europe as a whole. The world will keep spinning. teh tide will roll in, and the tide will roll out. Corn fed white boys from small towns in the American heartland will continue to wonder why they care who won in Baku, etc.
Hey Jack, the deal with Russell Brand is a reminder that a lot of guys have consensual sex with women, and then years later, out of the blue, the woman decides that it was a bad thing. I’m thinking about Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh: the woman had no idea the exact date or time or place of the assault, she had no witnesses, yet she got almost $1 million from a GoFundMe. It just seems like allowing these lawsuits and legal actions, when the alleged event happened so long ago, is patently unfair to the defendant. Isn’t there a statute of limitations?
I think that a lot of the statutes of limitations on rape were removed ten or twenty years ago. Because “women are never wrong “
And the only times that women decide after the fact that the consensual sex was wrong is when the guy suddenly comes in possession of an outsized checking account.
No, that is NOT the coolest C8.
https://www.motor1.com/news/815049/manual-c8-corvette-coversion-cost/
Growing up with newspapers, the current print media is horrible. The NYTimes which once described the word "screw" – in the carnal knowledge sense – as a minor obscenity, published the text messages about the Cornell rape, only censoring who the "victim" was. Their slogan now should be "All the news that fitted to print." Years ago Mad Magazine called the Sunday morning news interview programs correctly: Faze the Nation, Beat the Press, etc. Noted New Yorker media critic A.J. Liebling said in 1960: "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." The Associated Press is asking for donations for the sake of "freedom of the press" — give me a break, it was owned by wealthy newspaper publishers for years.
It seems since me too that that the movement is towards defining all consensual sex outside of marriage as rape, if so alleged by the female, till proven otherwise. Not great but maybe the upshot is hook up culture goes away. Silver linings, eh? Probably not but who knows. As with most things I blame feminists. They seemed rightly outraged by the lack of social censure for male whores but landed on a pretty terrible solution: to encourage all women to be whores. Which often leads to women regretting their sexual encounters. And sometimes regret transmogrifies into rape.
Is it strange that a bunch of vehicles on the Ford site do not show 2027 models? Looking at a calendar here, it is mid November 2026. Huh?
We are putting “Hates Sir Lewis Hamilton” on your headstone.
He did make some good passes at the start, until one realized that he was just passing backmarkers. Then it didn’t seem near as impressive.
Listening to him whine on the radio was certainly a highlight of the race. We get it Sir- it’s not your fault, it’s the car, or the stewards, or the guy that was in your way. Or it’s just Fred’s fault.
Luckily for Ferrari they can just tack on an extra 20% to the price of their new “F580 superleggario performance edition whatever” and sell some more horse-branded merch to cover the cost of his oversized salary.
Alonso put in a superlative performance in a subpar car. He has tended to be overlooked the last few years. It sure would be interesting to see what he did in a Mercedes or McLaren.
Ralf Schumacher is gay? Huh missed that news story.
I believe the auto companies have lost the plot. A $100,000 Mustang give me a break. I remember our neighbor’s son worked three summers (64,65,66) mowing lawns and saved evert penny to buy a new 1966 Mustang Convertible with a 289 and four speed.I was only 11 when he got the car and I was really really impressed. I know I know, those damn Baby Boomers, but really can a kid today mow lawns over three summers and save enough to but a new Mustang GT convertible?????
You can tell that F1 is kind of in a holding pattern because the interwebs are abuzz with two really pretty minor kerfluffles
1) The "controversy" at Ferrari, with Leclerc showing signs of being SICK TO TEARS of the constant "Sir Lewis Show". Everybody has an opinion, here's mine: I tend to take a really hard look at things. Regardless of how you feel about him, love him, hate him, or are indifferent to him, Lewis Hamilton is extremely long in the tooth. Leclerc has a contract with Ferrari until 2030, I believe -- meaning he's going nowhere.
In 2030, Sir lewis will be 45 for the entire season. There's no good reason to keep an athlete past their prime, beyond loyalty and sentimentality -- and nobody in F1 (besides Toto) rewards loyalty and sentimentality. Ferrari cut Vettel loose DURING the 2020 season, so it's not unprecedented for Ferrari to move on from a world champion. Will Leclerc ever win a F1 driver's championship? Maybe, but not as long as Hamilton is around "demanding respect".
2) The Liam Lawson/Red Bull soap opera. I'm on record as being a Lawson fanboi ever since Horndog/Marko did him dirty before he ever even got a seat. Laying that aside, the conundrum is this: do you renew the contract of a guy who is performing well (but not winning), who has exceeded the ceiling you thought he had already; or do you take the unproven mystery driver behind door number 2 who you believe MAY have a higher ceiling?
I have no idea of Mr. Lawson's potential as a driver, but I don't think Red Bull Racing does either. Whatever else he is, he'd workmanlike in just putting his head down and doing what he can with what he's been given. I really like that in a driver and a person -- but maybe I'm more suited to be an Idnycar or NASCAR fan, since F1 seems to be populated by guys born with a silver spoon in their mouth -- guys who "belong" in F1 (even if they don't drive like it). Fernando's observations about the bottom half of the grid are accurate -- the only reason most of those guys have a seat at all is because they have a butt-ton of money and act like they deserve to be there.
Using the same cold eye as I think I am with Hamilton is impossible here, because Lawson has never been given any opportunity (don't talk to me about 2 races in the big chair before being yanked) to know what his upside is. He's 24, which isn't young -- but the venerated "RBR Driver Development" I keep hearing so much about seems to have bypassed him completely. If anything, they've wasted several years of his life. Will he ever be on a podium? Not at RBR.
And so, contrary to what you would suspect -- I think RBR completing the humiliation ritual and cutting Liam Lawson loose would be best for everybody involved. it would have been far more humane (and perhaps even more reasonable) to have done it BEFORE Mr. Lawson's recent modest successes, but Red Bull is NEVER going to fully commit to Liam Lawson's success as a driver, because at the bottom of the well -- they don't think he deserves to be there.
I'm at a point of rooting against RBR in both teams. I'm a huge Max fan, and hope he continues to heap scorn and disdain on the team at every opportunity. I think Max IS F1 at this point, and sort of hope he walks away, blackens F1's eye on the way out, and makes endurance racing a huge sport again. I hope the Red Bull junior team gets their young hot rod, and I hope he's the second coming of Lance Stroll, with a DNF every race. I'm at the point of wishing whoever is pulling the strings at Red Bull (is it still Helmut?) gives up and goes back to pumping "extreme sports", like a Hermes Johnny Knoxville.
I think both Lewis and Liam should go to Indycar. I'd like to see Indycar become relevant again. Heck -- with Sir's money, he could buy the whole thing from old man Penske, and make it his very own vanity project. Indycar should be the 'murican F1 -- I'd love to see Cadillac and Ford and Dodge and Honda and Toyota duking it out with a decent rules set.
Anyhow, that last paragraph was pure digression and fantasizing. F1 will remain our fixation until Indycar and/or endurance racing gets fixed. F1 teams will continue to incinerate huge sums, and F1 as an organization will continue to suffer from the conflicted and self-hating neurosi, mirroring Europe as a whole. The world will keep spinning. teh tide will roll in, and the tide will roll out. Corn fed white boys from small towns in the American heartland will continue to wonder why they care who won in Baku, etc.