Do you have a source for the deck-melting? I thought the giant fan system would've been more deck-friendly than, say, the harrier. I'd like to read about an F-35 failure mode I wasn't previously aware of.

On the plus side, if they anger enough customers they'll just end up shipping it to themselves :)

The problem is that the IOC votes go towards cities that promise the biggest/fanciest/newest stadiums. Boston might be able to put on a fantastic frugal games like LA did in 1984. Unfortunately, that's not getting the votes, and it'll go to some 3rd-world dictatorship that promises everything to everyone.

The new Miata is a bit of a pig.

I enjoy the Google Trends chart for "Gamergate".

I wanted to try and get some data for your supposition. I picked the Bahrain GP quali times, since Bahrain seems least likely to have rain-affected qualifications. They also haven't permanently changed the circuit.

I poked in on that an hour ago and it was kinda interesting - It was a shaky-sounding guy reminding people "this is all part of the job, our industry has done this before". It wasn't the normal kind of sterile NASA commentary, it sounded like a human.