THE ART OF WAR PART 2
ARMED CONFLICTS HAVE BEEN VARIOUSLY PORTRAYED in works of art. Here in Part 2, we discuss two examples, one celebratory and the other disturbing in a most timely manner. Washington … Continue reading
THE ART OF WAR PART 1
NO, I’M BEING MUCH MORE LITERAL than Sun Tzu’s 5th-century B.C. military treatise of this title. I’m prompted by recent mention of three notable works of art: the visit of … Continue reading
FLICK THE STORY OF FEMALE PLEASURE
I LEARNED ABOUT KATE LISTER’S NEW BOOK FLICK THE STORY OF FEMALE PLEASURE in “Sexual Her-Story,” by Sarah Jones, History Extra Magazine, Vol. 27 No. 6, June 2026. Its subtitle … Continue reading
A ZANY WORLD OF AUTOMOBILES
EVERY SO OFTEN, LIGHT-HEARTED THINGS surface in SimanaitisSays coverage of the automotive industry. Years ago there were “Wacky’s Neat Cars,” December 17, 2012, the Arnolt-MG and Arnolt-Bristol of Chicago entrepreneur … Continue reading
AVOIDING GIGO MEDICAL RESEARCH
A COUPLE DAYS AGO, “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LOOPHOLES,” SimanaitisSays, July 12, 2026, offered tidbits gleaned from Celina Zhoa’s AAAS Science article, “A.I. Models Have a Troubling Knack For Discovering Legal … Continue reading
A STANDARD BY WHICH OTHERS ARE MEASURED—60 YEARS AGO
“IN THIS LATTER-DAY ERA OF SPORTS CARS, getting into an MG again never fails to remind us of the Good Old Days when the MG, the TC in those days, … Continue reading
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LOOPHOLES
SOMETIMES, IT SEEMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES ARE ALL TOO HUMAN. For example, Celina Zhao describes, “A.I. Models Have a Troubling Knack for Discovering Legal Loopholes,” AAAS Science, June 15, 2026. Here … Continue reading
GETTING HEP—NUMERICALLY
WHAT WITH POPE LEO XIV ACKNOWLEDGING 6-7 and all of us knowing 86-47, this got me interested in getting hep numerically. I cite Smoky Hill Museum for its “1920s Slang” … Continue reading
MORE ON HOLMES’ BOSWELL
IT IS A CHARMING CONCEIT THAT DR. JOHN H. WATSON was actually the biographer of the world’s first consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was merely Watson’s literary … Continue reading
TRUMP—AND TWO MEANINGS OF THE WORD “PITCH” PART 2
SIMON SKINNER GAVE US AN INFORMATIVE INTRODUCTION to international football with his LRB “ ‘I Wouldn’t Pay It Either’ ” book review of Jonathan Wilson’s The Power and the Glory: … Continue reading
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