Jesus God Almighty. NASCAR defies comprehension at times. It's a damned motorsports competition, not an avenue for Jeff [expletive deleted] Hammond to go to some wrestling venue and act like a fool. Professional "sports entertainment" wrestling (contradistinguished from Greco-Roman wrestling, which is what schools and the Olympics do) isn't worthy of watching, and why should my motorsport be sullied with wrestling?

In related news, NASCAR Nation has put Krista Voda in the female anchor's slot tonight, apparently moving Courtney George to the roving anchor spot. This is not a bad thing. If this ponderous exercise in low-grade television journalism (or is that "extreme reporting"?) is going to continue, then we might as well see Speed Channel's best blond.

Note to wardrobe, re Krista Voda: Black shirts & pink pants match for Lisa Robertson on QVC when she's hawking cubic zirconia. They do not work for motorsports broadcasting. That is, unless you want to put Ralph Sheheen in a black shirt and pink pants. That could be amusing.

NOTE: The Speed Channel website hates Firefox. Pages will render, but the text is way down below. Just scroll down.

UPDATE: It appears that others don't like NASCAR Nation, either. From various referrer links, I got to something called The Frontstretch, wherein angry NASCAR fans (Geoffrey Norman's fundamentalists speak, I suppose) voice their dislike for the program. As for me, I'd like to know where this whole "nation" thing got started for fans of a sport or team. Even "Red Sox Nation" barely makes sense.

This post, aside from mistaking Courtney George for a beautiful woman, seems to be on-point. Exactly why do I need to be told how to be a NASCAR fan? I spend money, I watch the races, I buy the stuff. End of story. What's a racing lifestyle show, anyways?

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I am generally pleased by the fact that the National Review prints columns by Geoffrey Norman on sports. I generally read every column that is posted of his, which is more than I can say for Stephen Moore, Bruce Bartlett, Randy Barnett, or Cathy Seipp. (You've ranted at length against most of those authors, haven't you? I vaguely seem to recall you swearing you'd read Meghan Cox Gurdon before you'd read those guys.--Ed.)

Full disclosure: I've been a NASCAR fan since I was able to comprehend fast-moving hunks of metal around a large oval. My father has been going to races since the early 1960s, and I've been going with him since the Reagan Administration. I go to at least two Winston Cup races per year, and you'll always find me clad in a driver's hat and Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses, both firmly clamped to my head by a pair of David Clark Model 10A hearing protectors. I've stood in line for drivers' autographs, I've cursed a variety of drivers---some of whom no longer live, alas---and I've sat through interminable delays, all for the chance to watch vehicles race. It's a fantastic feeling to stand with over a hundred thousand people for hours on end watching a race. If you don't understand it, I simply can't help you. more...

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I'm watching NASCAR Nation again, and what is this:

1. Courtney George's shirt is buttoned. Hooray; they listened.

2. A NASCAR fashion show. Jesus God Almighty. What are they thinking?

More later, if I recover from the shock of this.

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