HAPPY FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY, PBS!
LET’S CELEBRATE INTELLIGENT, entertaining, illuminating, and charming television provided by the Public Broadcasting Service, now in its 50th year. This non-commerical, free-to-air public broadcaster was founded on November 3, 1969, … Continue reading
MONACO GP 1956—MOSS BEATS A FANGIO TAG TEAM
JUAN MANUEL FANGIO and Stirling Moss are legendary race car drivers. Fangio’s record five Drivers’ World Championships, 1951, 1954–1957, held up for 46 years until the Michael Schumacher era. Moss … Continue reading
MEMORABLE POLITICAL LINES, TIMELY AND TIMELESS
IN READING ONE thing and another, I encounter lines well worth remembering. Indeed, see “The Best of Lines” and “I Wish I Said That (First)”, both here at SimanaitisSays. As … Continue reading
ART OUT FRONT—RADIATOR MASCOTS
BACK WHEN RADIATORS weren’t hidden within automotive bodywork, radiator caps could be objets d’art. In their most artistic, these hood ornaments were designed by famous sculptors. Other automotive mascots displayed … Continue reading
DOEST THOU HEAR A DOG WHISTLE?
WE LIVE IN an era of dog whistles, seemingly subliminal messages that are intended to alert some, yet be inaudible to the less enlightened. I say “seemingly” because who among … Continue reading
NAPIER-HESTON RACER—IN SEARCH OF A RECORD
DESPITE INNOVATIVE DESIGN, plenteous funding, and meticulous fabrication, the 1940 Napier-Heston Racer failed to fulfill its purpose of setting a World Air Speed Record. The onset of World War II … Continue reading
MARTHE HANAU—CON FEMME EXTRAORDINAIRE PART 2
THE SWINDLING PRESIDENTE has a timely ring to it, but note that final “e.” It’s a female president that Janet Flanner described in The New Yorker, August 19, 1939, and … Continue reading
MARTHE HANAU—CON FEMME EXTRAORDINAIRE PART 1
I BELIEVE IN equal opportunity for men and women. Thus, when I learned from The New Yorker about a “woman, with vulgar, virile gestures,…and a fulminating vocabulary and voice, both … Continue reading
ON ORIGINALISM PART 2
IS THE U.S. Constitution carved in stone? An originalist would claim so. Yesterday in Part 1, we offered a satirical view from Dan Rather (use leeches as medicine? travel by … Continue reading
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