NASCAR is Trash

So, I'm driving to work, and I'm immediately inspired to write another 'Oakland has funny signs' post.  One of the 'upcoming exits' signs had been covered with a banner that said "Gang Injunctions = Racial Profiling".  First of all, that's just moronic.  Secondly.... wtf?  Is that a decorated Geo Metro?

I do not condone driving and taking pictures with your camera phone.  Yes, I'm a hypocrite.

Let's start with the fact that NASCAR is too white trash for even me, which is saying something.  I grew up in Southeast Michigan, in a town entirely employed by the Big 3 (American car companies need a new name like Screwed 3), where every child grows up with a greasy wrench in their hand, and my family was a racist pack of Miller Lite drinking rednecks.  Sounds like ideal NASCAR climate, right?  Sure was.  Maybe that's one of the big reasons I'm so against it.

I'm proud to say that I had to look up who drove the 48 car.

Anyway, this car is cruising down I-580, and I can't help but make fun of them.  NASCAR is so stupid.  Is it racist to say that I'm surprised it was driven by a hispanic woman?  (I had 'hispanic-looking' and decided this was not the place to try and be PC all of a sudden.)  Not the demographic (race or gender) I would expect to be enthused enough to do this to her car.  I pray that she lost a bet, or that this is her (white) boyfriend's car.

In the summer of 2008, when gas hit those ridiculous prices, I did some back of the envelope calculations determining how much gas each NASCAR race consumed, and how much was consumed during a whole racing season.  The number was astronomical.  I immediately formed the stance that if you watch NASCAR, you are absolutely not allowed to bitch about high gas prices.  It's called supply in demand.  It's all your fault.  Need I also mention the republican-led decisions to continue funding NASCAR while cutting funds for Planned Parenthood & NPR!?!

Totally the demographic I expected to have a car like this (except I'm too good for beer and wife-beaters),
~RoB

Read Your G@#D%&$! Email

Does anybody read an entire email anymore?  Are my emails too long?  Is it that hard to take an extra 2 minutes to figure out everything I've told you, before wasting my time next time we see each other?

Oh, HOMOphones!

I imagine it is just one of the curses for people that simultaneously think and type too fast.  My emails are regularly too long, and I understand that.  I pray that you are a good skimmer, because I'm incapable of ridding the text of all the details I deem necessary.  Yet, I've learned time and time again that NOBODY is a good skimmer.

I understand.  Most of us went to college (or at least finished high school).  We're handed a baker's dozen of textbooks and expected to read a chapter from each every night.  It's way easier to read the questions at the end of the chapter and find the answers via highlighted examples or our mad honing skills.  We've been trained to do this for years, even though nobody seems to do it well.

This is a little hypocritical of me, since I have certainly done my fair share of 'kind of reading' textbooks throughout college.  I expected things to change a little when I entered the real world.  After all, emails from colleagues about upcoming meetings are way more important than that chapter on the unit circle, right?

My emails are important, and should be treated as such.  They are from me, after all!
~RoB