St. Stephen's Day rant.........

I'm told it took a couple spatulas and banker boxes to put away the remains of an import racecar which failed to heed the cones and markers in a construction zone along Oregon's Hwy. 26. The apparently impaired import runner slammed into an obvious.... CRANE! Estimates the vehicle was doing 80 at the time. Point to all this? The influence of an anti-substance-impaired racer organization operating in the real world, such as the Brotherhood of Street Racers (STILL the only organization I've run across that gets it right..) is so needful, so obvious and so unappreciated by the profit-oriented motorsports industry which is pushing 50-65 dollar admission to 'street legal" style events in California. That price inflation needs to stop at the Cali-Oregon state line; i.e., not at Medford, Woodburn, Madras or PIR! Not at Bremerton. Not anymore! Stop discouraging legal, safe racing with working people in mind.

Eating PiePt.1.......

Shamers on me for reading over the shoulder of Large Jim at Woodburn Dragstrip's tower last summer...and assuming just cuz the schedule and surface evidence on his desk didn't explicitly say so, that the National Electric Car drags were MIA this year. The NEDRA schedule proclaimed otherwise. It was damn irresponsible of me to not even ASK, assume and not do my homework. I consider myself a columnist (read blog in print..face it..), not a formal journalist. To not give my column in Full Throttle News my best effort did NEDRA and Woodburn (not to mention Richard Heath) a disservice...maybe costing admissions to an event I'm an admirer of.
I'm of the school: "Don't apologize; change your behavior." I'll leave it with that.

My Ford Dreams: Did Ford cave in to AFA ?

........Joe from New York is a mainline, patriotic, proud union worker who isn't afraid to call BS on homophobes, unionphobes and otherphobes from what I've seen so far. Maybe he doesn't want to be labeled "progressive"; I don't like to be labeled myself- too eclectic. Progressive thought without the drama.............