Hmm…  Maybe this isn’t as suitable for blogging as I hoped.

I really don’t have much to add to yesterday’s set up except that the flex wing may be more significant than I thought.  The Red Bulls and Ferraris that are using it are 1.2 seconds a lap faster than everything else on the track.

Here’s a link to the Speed Racecast commentary.

Below the fold is the starting grid.

When Double Dippers become economic party poopers

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer

Sat Jul 31, 11:11 am ET

WASHINGTON – They’re a minority, but a vocal one, and they’re hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.

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Are double dippers becoming recovery party poopers?

“If consumers are hearing a lot of bad economic news and they’re already scared, they might pull back some more,” said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight.

There are 15 million people unemployed. “Employers might be willing to hire more if consumer spending was doing better,” Gault said. “But then maybe consumer spending won’t start doing better until employers start to hire.”

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With such a mindset, warnings of an impending double dip-recession can hit home because “consumer behavior is driven by outlook, not only people’s present situation but their future concerns,” said Pew associate director Michael Dimock.

Magical thinking is the solution to everything!

In order to affect a timely halt to deterioriating conditions, and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty, the King. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended. Right to habeas corpus, suspended. Right to legal counsel, suspended. Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended. By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy, shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.

• AMC– Pearl Harbor (in Technicolor)
• ESPN– X Games, Rally Car Racing Elims, Quarters, Semis and Final, BMX Big Air Final, SuperRally Final
• E!– Dazed and Confused x 2
• Food– Best Thing I Ever Ate
• FX– Enemy of the State
• History– Top Shot
• Lifetime– Within
• Oxygen– Along Came Polly
• TBS– My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Runaway Bride
• Turner Classic– Bad Day at Black Rock, Convicts Four
• Discovery– Mythbusters
• TLC– Best Food Ever
• TNT– The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions
• USA– Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Later-

• AMC– Michael Clayton
• Lifetime– Project Runway (Season Premier repeat)
• SciFi– Riddles of the Sphinx
• TBS– Bewitched
• Turner Classics– Never So Few

• Toon– Boondocks (Shinin’, Bitches to Rags; GitS SAC: 2nd Gig (Endless Gig, Section 9)

If you can stay up for it, tonight is a pivotal episode of Ghost in the Shell.  TV Listings calls it ‘Endless Gig’, Wikipedia ‘Return to Patriotism’.  I call it ‘Sacrifice of the Tachikomas’.

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Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 Engineers prepare to seal ruptured oil well

by Matt Davis, AFP

Sat Jul 31, 12:35 pm ET

Well, I have to be up and take notes anyway since Richard and Emily are off attending a wedding in upstate New York (not that one).

Join me below the fold.

Last chance to see Lawrence O’Donnell and Chris Hayes, and at that only the one because we want to watch prison documentaries, especially those with Joe Arpaio.

• AMC– JFK
• CNBC– Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• ESPN– X Games, BMX Vert Final, Moto X Step Up Final, Skate Vert Final, Moto X Best Whip, Moto X Best Trick Final, Skateboard Vert Best Trick
• FX– 27 Dresses
• Oxygen– 50 First Dates
• SciFi– Eureka (premier), Haven (premier)
• TBS– Forrest Gump
• Turner Classic– Let the Good Times Roll
• Discovery– Odd Couple Survival Night
• TNT– Walking Tall x 2
• Nick– iCarly @ 8 (premier)

From 9 to 10 Toon has the 2 part Clone Wars where Anakin rescues R2, but it’s going head to head with a Phineas & Ferb premier on Disney with the added short feature- Monster Truck Mater.

Later-

Dave has Madonna and Harry Connick Jr..  Alton talks about knives.

AMC has The Ninth Gate, actually a pretty fair horror flick with Johnny Depp.  Turner Classic is showing Let’s Spend the Night Together, the 1983 Rolling Stones tour documentary.

Adult Swim has moved Children’s Hospital (premier) to a new time, midnight.  Tonight’s Venture Brothers episode is Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean.  Look Around You has episode 1 of season 2, Music 2000.

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From Yahoo News Top Stories

1 New BP boss vows to stay the course in Gulf clean-up

by Matt Davis, AFP

27 mins ago

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back in town for their final appearance this week.

You know, it’s not just his ignorance, arrogance, and hypocrisy that puts me off Schwarzenegger, or even his Republicanism; it’s the misogyny of his movies, epitomized by True Lies but equally evident in vehicles like Eraser.

I’ll never watch another one again except under duress.

• Comedy– Futurama (premier)
• ESPN– X Games!  First night, Moto X Freestyle Round 1, Women’s Super X Final, Men’s Super X Final, Moto X Freestyle Final, Skateboard Big Air Final.
• E!– ID4
• Food– Good Eats, Honey and Pound Cake
• Lifetime– Project Runway (Season Premier)
• History– The Universe (Season Premier)
• Turner Classic– Rock Rock Rock!, Rock Around the Clock
• USA– Burn Notice (premier)
• Disney– Underdog

Later-

• AMC– The Negotiator
• Turner Classic– Bye Bye Birdie

Dave has Paul Rudd, Bill Burr and Interpol.  Jon has Liev Schreiber, Stephen Andy Cohen.  Alton cooks with alcohol.  Mid-life Chrysalis.

Apparently this is the reward I get for years of screwing with super-science. In short, I pissed in God’s eye, and he blinked.