NASCAR Blows It on Knaus Appeal and Bristol
I guess it should come as no surprise to most people in the know, but NASCAR once again has managed to make a laughing stock out of itself. The rescinding of suspensions and points...
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by alex · Published March 21, 2012 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I guess it should come as no surprise to most people in the know, but NASCAR once again has managed to make a laughing stock out of itself. The rescinding of suspensions and points...
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by alex · Published March 18, 2012 · Last modified January 28, 2015
I am a pretty big follower of what is going on in what is called the new economy. That is businesses that are based around or based on the internet, and often that deal...
Sometimes you have to stand back a bit to appreciate things, to see them for what they really are. Sometimes you have to look past the headline or past the placard waving protester to...
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by alex · Published January 1, 2012 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Well, the 2011 racing season is done, and the clock just struck 2012 everywhere. Well, everywhere except NASCAR land, where they continues to work on their 1960s inventions and machines, proudly being as ungreen...
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by alex · Published October 16, 2011 · Last modified December 26, 2017
The current and ongoing Occupy Wall Street (twitter tag #Occupywallstreet ) protests have certainly started to gain some traction in the media. Outlets in the US such as CNN have been giving the event...
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by alex · Published July 24, 2011 · Last modified January 28, 2015
Over the next little while, we will see plenty of stories about Amy Winehouse and how tragic her death is. Truly, any time someone is lost so early in life, it is a tragedy....
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by alex · Published July 9, 2011 · Last modified January 28, 2015
It’s been sort of funny watching from afar the media coverage of the Caylee Anthony case, the poor child who died too young with a mother who just didn’t seem to know what happened....
I cannot imagine how time flies on the the internet, how fads and fashions come and go. I have been online and working online since the early 90s (I had a pre-commercial internet account...
This is one of those stories that I just can’t wrap my head around, because there is just so much stupid going on here. Rep. Anthony Weiner has finally resigned from his office, as...
A while back, I wrote a piece about Wikileaks and how just being able to do something didn’t make it right. There are so many things that have happened around Wikileaks in the last...
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by alex · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified January 28, 2015
What a weird world we live in. Since President Obama became the candidate for President of the US a few years ago, there has been a group of people who think he that he...
2011 started on an up note for the NASCAR nation (or is that Napcar Nation?). Daytona was a weird race with two car drafts and all sorts of off stuff, and a surprise, nay,...
As a long time racing fan, you sort of get use to the ebb and flow of racing series. They have good years, and they have bad years. The people running various racing series...
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by alex · Published November 30, 2010 · Last modified January 28, 2015
This week Wikileaks is once again filling the internet with previously secret, classified, or private documents, mostly having to do with US foreign policy and relations with other countries. This is sort of “classic...
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