I do think FIA probably deserves the largest share of the blame for the race itself, but I also think it was a power play by the Michelin teams to force the FIA into accepting terms they were probably never going to agree to. They knew the FIA would never allow a change to the track on race day or the embarrassment of…

Michelin blamed the FIA and IMS for the track conditions, and they were able to point to Bridgestone’s experience at IMS through Firestone as an unfair advantage. With the engineering and financial resources Michelin was pouring into F1 at the time, I’m skeptical that they couldn’t have at least fixed this, even if…

I’m an Indy local and an IMS/Indycar stan. At the time I wasn’t an F1 fan (although I am today), but I still went to the USGP each year. A lot of us American racing fans were weary of F1, because the races weren’t that exciting, but more because of Bernie Ecclestone’s arrogance and dismissive attitude toward the…

“but it certainly doesn’t do much to endear Verstappen to the fans”

I have a lot of family and friends who are Methodists. Most are pretty conservative, but they really don’t care for Sessions, or Trump for that matter. The Methodist church is definitely not progressive, but they do generally value inclusion and compassion. They’re starting to come around to see that their…

I don’t think Trump’s people have any comprehension of the horseshoe theory. Their gaslighting isn’t nearly that complex. They see the world in such binary terms, that you’re either with Trump, or you’re with the media, Democrats, immigrants, etc. They have no use for nuance or logic that would be wasted on most of…

I’m looking forward to Trump suggesting that because this guy was so far to the right that he dislikes Trump, he was actually aligned with the Democrats. 

So this guy was part of the fringe that thinks Trump is a globalist puppet. It’s obvious the administration will distance themselves from him, and they’ll probably get away with it like usual. “This was a lunatic who hated Trump.” Sure. The only question is if they’ll have the balls to go a step further and try to tie…

Maybe you’re right. He’d definitely have a smaller pulpit. And his win certainly emboldened these people to come out of the woodwork. But they hate Hillary so passionately. I still think things would be pretty ugly, and their fringe would still be pretty dangerous.

I’m sure the fact that the magabomber’s van is decked out like a POTUS sponsored Nascar entry is part of the Dems’ false flag operation.

72 is pretty old if you haven’t taken good care of yourself. It’s certainly past the age when major problems start to crop up in a good number of people. For someone who famously avoids exercise, he might as well be on borrowed time. 

Great race, good to see Ferrari get the tactics right for once. If Kimi had gone in under the VSC, he would have come out behind Bottas, who would have kept him far enough away from Hamilton to essentially allow Merc to kill off the race. Their only chance was to force Hamilton off and hope he’d require a second stop.…

The only way Trump will leave office before being voted out in the 2020 election would be if he’s medically incapacitated. Given his age, presumably poor health and sedentary lifestyle, combined with the stress of the job (even though he does very little, for him I’m sure it’s still incredibly stressful), I’d say he…

Thank you for this. This is the kind of writing that keeps me coming back to Gawker blogs. Very powerful stuff from a very under-represented perspective (and obviously the only meaningful perspective in this matter). And despite your attempt at being a good company guy, your piece stands in stark contrast to the piece…

I would hate to see that. For whatever it’s worth (very little I’m sure), I have always appreciated your comments on Gawker blogs. There are fewer and fewer regular commenters I would say that about these days.

I had my own version of this in mind as I read the piece, but you said it so much more effectively and succinctly than I ever could have.  If they ban you for this, they might as well just pull the plug on the entire comment section.

Ford made this exact point in her hearing testimony. Why would anyone else remember the event, when she was the only one who experienced life-altering trauma that night?

I thought it was a mistake by the Dems to put most of their eggs in the FBI basket at the time of the Ford hearing, instead of hammering Kavanaugh on his lies. The FBI investigation was never going to be anything more than a delaying of the inevitable.

How do people not get this? The majority party dictates the Senate agenda. God forbid something were to happen to a left-leaning justice in the next two years. Do we really want McConnell and Grasley controlling the confirmation process of another Trump nominee? As long as Manchin is caucusing with the Dems, he’s…

If Kavanaugh’s confirmation is a fait accompli, I’d rather red state Dems do whatever they need to do to hold onto their seats. If Dems can win back the Senate, then people like McConnell and Grasley won’t control the confirmation process the next time around. There’s significant concern that Trump could have another…