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...politics simply do not mix. There could be no grandiose pronouncements, no claims that Pi Day is as American as mom, the flag and apple pi; the ratio, after all, belongs to the world. Legislators write home about how they were tough on crime, or saved the federal linoleum subsidy; any Congressman who told his constituency about his sponsorship of Pi Day would be laughed out of office. (Unless his constituency were entirely composed of mathematicians, in which case he would be anointed king...
Then the motors start, and "you are into what you instinctively do." You follow the pace car, reach the green flag and rev to 190 m.p.h.--there's no speedometer, you don't need one. "You are sitting right on top of the exhaust. There are vibrations all through your rear end, up through your hands." The race...
...racing is what Pettys and Allisons and Earnhardts do, come what may; and second, that NASCAR is a Big Business that doesn't stop for one man, even though it's the man who helped make it big. So they planned to rev the engines and drop the green flag Sunday. No one in the vast, grieving NASCAR family felt that Ironhead Earnhardt, Ironheart's boy, would have wanted it any other...
Dale wasn't sure if my wife Stevie was going to make it down to see him before the green flag on Sunday. But, as she had for seven years to the day, she had gone through the Scripture and picked out an appropriate message for Dale to take with him on the road. Since race day was the 18th, she picked the 18th Proverb, and settled on verse 10: "The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe." Stevie handed him the note. He read it, kissed her on the cheek...
...gladly take out a loan to finance one," fumed one of our readers in Illinois, who was outraged by a comment from a Botswana truck driver who said he used prostitutes because "I'm human. I'm a man. I have to have sex." Following up on this red flag of sexual irresponsibility, a California reader concluded, "Look at the pictures, read the words, and then try to convince yourself that promiscuity is no big deal...