A Good Year for the Outlaw

So there was a nice, big, whiny-toned expose in the USA Today this week about how the economy is affecting NAZICAR attendance and TV ratings and sponsorship dollars. As I’ve said before, the economy is a convenient excuse for these guys, who refuse to look in the mirror and see the REAL reasons why NAZICAR [...]

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Continuing my other post (I’ve edited the timestamp on this one to put it below the first one) on what is REALLY wrong with NASCAR.
We’ve already discussed Toyota, right-wing jingoism, and the dreaded “Car of Tomorrow” as reasons NASCAR is down. Here are more:
4. Track duplication. In their continued efforts to break free from Southern-only [...]

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When it comes to sports entertainment, I’m going back to watching the WWE over NAZICAR.
Why?
Because the WWE is less scripted.

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Did anybody else see James Spader’s character deliver his closing arguments Tuesday night on Boston Legal?
Yes, it’s a TV show. Yes, it’s fiction. But the writers of that show have a way of writing to today’s topics and having their characters make tremendous social arguments. And Spader – as Alan Shore - ripping to shreds the idiotic movement that [...]

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And it is….

Carpoolers.
On ABC, Tuesdays. Two weeks into this show, I’m totally into it. The characters are all memorable (even two of the four guys’ wives and one of their sons), and the jokes are funny and quick. Of course, the opening credits of the first show should have told me this show was going [...]

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