EXCESS VERBOSITY? NO, JUST VERACITY
“AUTOMOBILE BROCHURES,” R&T CLAIMED, “ARE ALMOST AS WELL ENDOWED WITH SUPERLATIVES as is the publicity for a Hollywood movie production, and about as accurate.” This and following images from R&T … Continue reading
ON PAGANISM VERSUS HUMANISM
DAVID BROOKS OFFERS AN OPINION PIECE “How to Survive the Trump Years With Your Spirit Intact,” The New York Times, May 1, 2025. Here are tidbits gleaned from his thoughtful … Continue reading
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE—OPERA AND OTHERWISE PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE FOCUSED ON THE HORRIFIC REALITY of the now appropriately named Exonerated Five. Today we turn to the operatic production The Central Park Five, particularly as … Continue reading
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE—REALITY AND OPERA PART 1
FOR THOSE WITH POOR MEMORIES, LIVING UNDER A ROCK, OR FOLLOWING SOLELY MAGA SOURCES, the Central Park Five, known today as the Exonerated Five, may require telling: It’s an egregious … Continue reading
“WE FINALLY HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO FOLLOWS SCIENCE”
THIS, FROM WHITE HOUSE.GOV. What unmitigated clap-trap! What proof of ego-pandering lies! Above, the lead page for which we taxpayers paid. Image from The White House, April 22, 2025. Below, … Continue reading
BIG, BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTISH—DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE IMPECUNIOUS NOR THE FAINT OF HEART
“FERRARI,” R&T RECOUNTED IN DECEMBER 1962, “IS A MAGIC NAME, epitomized by automotive writers as a sort of 4-wheeled Holy Grail, to be sought after with fervor, worshipped in blind … Continue reading
WHICH WAY IS NORTH? AND WHY ANYWAY? PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE BEGAN SHARING James Vincent’s London Review of Books assessment of Jerry Brotton’s Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction. Here in Part … Continue reading
WHICH WAY IS NORTH? AND WHY ANYWAY? PART 1
JAMES VINCENT REVIEWS JERRY BROTTON’S FOUR POINTS OF THE COMPASS in the London Review of Books, April 15, 2025. Early on, he struck a responsive chord with me: “Every compass … Continue reading
TRUMP GENDER-101
TRUMP CHAOS IN SCIENCE is well documented: “Climate Change is a HOAX!” And this focused ignorance continues. Here are tidbits on another aspect of this, gender, from recent issues of AAAS … Continue reading
MORE ON TRUMP’S AUTOCRACY PLAYBOOK
FIVE DAYS AGO HERE AT SIMANAITISSAYS, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy shared the autocracy playbook employed by Putin in Russia, Orbán in Hungary, Erdoğan in Turkey—and Trump before our eyes. In … Continue reading
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