She just doesn't happen to be a white man, which is what's really got you spooked.

Actually, I'm a very conservative Latino male. I've seen racism, and I abhor racism from all sources.

Sotomayor believes in this thing called "Social Justice", which to me means justice based on the social standing of the participants. Consider how many ways that can go wrong.

Consider the reaction if someone proposed a White Supremacist vision of Social Justice... Or a Black Supremacist vision of Social Justice. How about a Neo-Nazi vision of Social Justice. Fundamentalist Islamic vision of Social Justice?

Is it any better to to advocate a Mexican Supremacist vision of Social Justice? And remember, Sotomayor is a member of "La Raza", Spanish for "The Race", a Mexican Supremacist organization. An organization that seeks to return Aztlan (Southwest US states) to Mexico.

Anyone who says I can make a better legal decision based on my race, is a racial supremacist.

Anyone who belongs to a race based supremacist organization does not belong on any court.

Excuse me... Sotomayor was first nominated by George H W Bush, a.k.a Bush 41.

The preferred term is Latina, pronounced the t as th. And no, I'm actually being very serious here...

How did we get to a place where a racist is a serious candidate for the supreme court?

That thing costs how many billions, and they shut it down because of higher electricity rates?

I thought it would have its own power generators.

What's the total cost of ownership compared to the cost of power?

I guess they don't have the concept of "the cost of lost opportunity"

You forgot about the $12k battery pack replacement every 5 years or 60k miles.

Um... Stock car race?

There are many classes of racing, many of them very close to stock production with the addition of safety equipment.

However not having a top speed of 250MPH kind of takes the appeal out of it.

I have a friend that races in a mazda miata class.

But it's important to remember that a motor racing hobby is much more expensive and addictive than say Heroin.... (er maybe not quite more addictive)

An electric car will do pretty well. It can provide a good weight to horse power ratio. One of the challenges in electric cars, is battery life. Discharge a lead acid battery more than 10%, and it's life goes from years to weeks. In a race, you don't care about battery life past the race. And with some engineering, a battery swap could come down to a reasonable pit stop.

But the sex-appeal of something that does not rock the stands, or throw a flame is really low.