Blogged Too Late

As gas prices soar, I had an idea last week that would be a radical, if unpopular in certain shires, step towards improving the state of our nation's fuel supply:

Pass a law banning NASCAR.

Before saying so on this here plateau of knowledge, I had intended to do some research about how much each of those cars uses up in a race, how many cars per race, how many races per year, and throw some stats at you, what with my recent A in Statistics, but I've recently sold my Stats book on amazon.com, and plus I was busy sitting around waiting for someone to sell me a Ford Escape Hybrid. My latest brilliant original idea could wait.

So I see some guy on tonight's "The Daily Show" rerun with John Stewart interviewing the EmCee for these stupid Competitive Eating competitions, and John asks a question along the lines of "Isn't it somewhat immoral to have these events when there are people starving in other parts of the world?" and the EmCee retorts that no one complains about how much fuel NASCAR wastes...

nertz.