Pragmatic Dictator

Kind of – see Juan Martin should never really rock given he’s a flamenco guitarist. By any measure he’s a damn fine guitar player and along with his Flamenco Ensemble consisting of:

• Two dancers – one guy, one gal, amazing balance and posture, fast feet with tremendous fluidity
• One singer – with a scary big voice and a serious sense of rhythm conveyed via foot stamping and clapping (goes for the dancers too by the way)
• One flute player – also pretty mean with sax and clarinet
• One percussionist – I swear this guy had more than two hands

….put on a great show, Friday night in the Reading Concert Hall. An impressive display with the simplest of musical instruments (bongo drums and even a wooden box). And the ticket price – less than twenty pounds.

If you get a chance, go see them.

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IMHO, this is terrible for the sport. If one wishes to ban team orders one must ruthlessly enforce the rules otherwise a gray area is left open to exploitation. Ron Dennis stated that his reasons for issuing orders were to ensure his drivers finished the race, trouble is a convenient side effect of this action is that Alonso takes the ten points which neatly helps to clean up the “issues” around the championship lead. Herein lies the problem, one cannot be certain that Ron Dennis had pure intentions, we must just believe which leads to a bunch of possible not so nice interpretations around the ruling:

1. Lewis Hamilton brings a lot of extra interest to F1 and we wouldn’t wish to poison that with a team orders embarrassment.
2. The stakeholders in the Monte Carlo race might not want it’s reputation tarnished.
3. Nobody wants another Ferrari win, anything else is preferable.

So here we are then, Ferrari could be judged to have taken action all those years ago to give themselves the best chance of having one of their drivers win the championship and that’s punished. Mclaren could be judged to have done exactly the same thing and weren’t punished. Just where is the line then? Perhaps it would be better to accept the team orders ban cannot be effectively applied and junk it so as to avoid this kind of mess?

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There’s truth in your lies
doubt in your faith
what you build you lay to waste
there’s truth in your lies
doubt in your faith
all I’ve got’s what you didn’t take

So I
I won’t be the one
be the one to leave this in pieces
and you
you will be alone
alone with all your secrets
your regrets
don’t lie

Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight

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…..what I’ve done

Linkin Park

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…..thanks for the memories.

Fall Out Boy

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