Put your hands in the air, Crasstalkers. Bens is over at the hospital visiting a sick family member today but he wanted to hit you cats with a few tasty bits of Friday night funk. Continue reading
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There’s nothing like the salt.
Every August since 1949 the Southern California Timing Association has gathered on a dried salt lake bed on the Utah-Nevada border for Bonneville Speedweek. Every year thousands of hot rodders, motorcyclists and general speed demons descend on the salt flats to go fast and hopefully break new land speed records. Anyone who shows up with a vehicle, pays a small entrance fee and passes a safety inspection can run all-out on one of the salt flat’s legendary 7-mile course. Continue reading
Back in June the awesomely-nicknamed Japanese driver Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima became the first driver to ever run the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb in under 10 minutes.
The hillclimb is amazingly simple: Try to haul your ass up to the Pikes Peak summit via the partially-paved road, and do it as fast as you can.
Monster broke the record in a 910 hp Suzuki SX4 and his sponsor GoPro, the makers of a line of tiny HD cameras, has put out this incredible video showing the entire run from just about every angle.
The 2011 Crasstalk Fantasy Football League is here. We will open up as many leagues as we need to accommodate everyone, so if you want to play, come join in the fun! Continue reading
Two economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco published an interesting report this week that analyzed the potential for Chinese currency inflation to affect U.S. consumer expenditures.
In non-wonky English, they looked at how much money Americans spend on goods and services from the U.S. vs. China. What they found is that only a tiny percentage of our spending actually ends up in the hands of the evil communist Chinese.
The fed report is pretty damning when you look at in terms of the pre-conceived narratives about China that we’ve been told by both the commie-hating right and the Walmart-hating left. Continue reading
Don’t you just love camping? The mosquito bites, the smell of marshmallows burning like molten lava, the weird people in the next campground over.
And you know who ruins camping? The ladies! What with their bear-attracting menstruation and need to possess so much of the air mattress’s surface area, they’re just not cut out for it. Sometimes men just need to be men. Together. Alone. In the woods. If you think this sounds gay, you’re completely wrong.
(Quick Warning: This week’s Craigslost might be NSFW. There is some questionable language but no obscene images.) Let’s get to the fuckery!
Are you in the mood for some bike prOn? Here are the 20 all time sexiest motorcycles, as decided by me. I have impeccable taste and I’ve never wadded a bike, so I feel I’m qualified to make the ruling. Let’s go look at fast, dangerous, pretty things. Continue reading
This NFL off-season is only five days old and it’s already been crazier than an Al Davis press conference/embalming. There have been about a billion trades and free agent signings.
One player that won’t be re-signed is Randy Moss. Moss retired today as one of the greatest wide receivers to ever play the game. He’s also known for pretending to moon the Green Bay fans during a game, spraying a referee in the face with a water bottle, referring to himself in the third-person singular and selectively deciding to take plays (and entire games) off.
But despite the mercurial behavior, Moss was one of the most talented athletes in NFL history and whether you were rooting for him or against him, he made Sundays a lot more fun.
I was never much of a math student, but if you put something into a nifty graph for me, I can usually get the gist. Here’s a collection of great economics graphs that, taken together, paint a picture of what’s going on with the U.S. economy. Continue reading
I know this ain’t Ezra Klein’s blog, but let’s wonk out for a moment.
Boehner’s debt ceiling plan really, really sucks. According to the president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Mr. Sobbing Spray Tan’s debt ceiling deal “could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history.”
In short, the Boehner plan would force policymakers to choose among cutting the incomes and health benefits of ordinary retirees, repealing the guts of health reform and leaving an estimated 34 million more Americans uninsured, and savaging the safety net for the poor. It would do so even as it shielded all tax breaks, including the many lucrative tax breaks for the wealthiest and most powerful individuals and corporations.
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