Racing for Real Men

Daytona Beach & Road Course, 1957.  130mph wheel-to-wheel racing in stock family sedans, on a track that's half beach and half two-lane blacktop.  This track killed drivers in '54 and '55 before the modern Daytona Speedway was finally completed in 1959.  If anyone suggested this today the NASCAR safety nazis would faint dead away.

Thursday Tunes

Steve Vai playing the most outlandish musical instrument you've ever clapped eyes upon. Submitter:

It’s a ½ fretless 12 string, a 7 string guitar, and the E & A string on the bass are fretless with some ‘harp strings’ on the tail.

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Hat-tip to Jeff W.

RIP Trek

Critical Drinkler nails it again. Star Trek has been murdered by a bunch of entitled and vicious children who have confused entertainment with social engineering. May they all die in a horrible transporter accident.

Lies

Here's the headline for this article:

Dogs should go vegan with carrots and broccoli healthier than meat, study reveals

Ignoring for the moment the fact that it is one of the single dumbest sentences you are ever likely to read, let's have a look inside the article. Reading down, we find this:

Prof. Knight said: "Statistical analysis of the survey results suggested that, overall, dogs on conventional diets were less healthy than dogs on raw meat or vegan diets. Dogs on raw meat diets appeared to be healthier than those on vegan diets."

The article then begins winding through some torturous strawman logic to explain why the results of the survey aren't really the results of the survey. Then they provide a list of suggested foods for your dog:

Carrots, broccoli, and other veggies
Rice
Quinoa
Lentils
Certain types of beans (but keep in mind, for most dogs, beans = flatulence)
Dark, leafy greens like spinach and kale

Humans are omnivores; canines are carnivores. That's something you should have been taught around about the third grade. Forcing your dog to eat foods that its digestive tract is not evolutionarily equipped to handle falls under the heading of animal abuse.

This is typical "progressive" behavior: if the facts have the temerity to disagree with your opinion, just ignore them and MAKE SOME SHIT UP. How about instead of feeding dogs a vegan diet, we instead solve two problems at once by feeding the vegans to the dogs.

Slow Motion Tank Shells

Watch it full screen, in 4K if you have the option. You can clearly see the shock wave in front of the projectile.

Observations

An infrequent new feature wherein I will post my random and probably acerbic musings. The inaugural quip:

The majority of people are incapable of rational analysis, relying instead on others to tell them what to think. These people constitute the easily manipulated herds which have been the tools of politicians, priests, and other varieties of bully throughout history. The fact that they do not realize this weakness exists in themselves is the very thing which makes them so pliable. They will make all the proper noises about freedom and self-determination, but when push comes to shove they always fall meekly into line and do what they are told -- even if what they are told to do makes no objective sense -- because they value their continued existence more than the right to choose for themselves. Such people are sentient only by the broadest and most generous definition of the word. They have more in common with cattle than they do with true human beings.

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Heya bay-beee!

Take a number and form an orderly line, ladies!