PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
AH…. THE FIFTIES.… THE REACTIONARY’S DREAM…. HistoryFacts posted a tantalizing question, “What Did Gas Cost in the 1950s?” And, to its credit, the website’s answer of 27¢/gallon isn’t just wowed-over. … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
I’VE ALREADY CONFESSED TO GLEANING the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details of following this industry. It’s one of the benefits of ten years’ retirement after 33+ … Continue reading
A.I. AND A SENSE OF MORALITY
A NEW BOOK, THE AI MIRROR, offers the views of philosopher Shannon Vallor, who at PhilPeople says, “My research explores how emerging technologies reshape human moral and intellectual character, and … Continue reading
A TRAGIC AND SAD TIME
I HAD SCHEDULED AN AAAS SCIENCE editorial about misinformation as today’s SimanaitisSays item. Horrifically, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump had transformed all this. It is immensely tragic that one … Continue reading
MEET THE TAYLOR FOLKS
IT’S A TAD OFF MY U.S. RTE 6 MEANDERINGS, but Taylor, Nebraska, is a must see on any further coast-to-coasts. In fact, I learned about Taylor Folks in my recent … Continue reading
DOES THE SPORTS CAR EXIST?—A 40-YEAR PERSPECTIVE PART 2
TODAY IN PART 2 WE CONTINUE RECOUNTING R&T STAFF opinions about sports cars in 1984, with several new comments reflecting four decades of wisdom (or whatever else one accumulates over … Continue reading
THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE VISITED an ancient movie set, a chapel in saintly red rocks, and a Czech “Fred and Ginger.” Today in Part 2 we continue trippin’ around Europe and then … Continue reading
THE COOLEST BUILDINGS—MY FAVS PART 1
IN THIS HOTTEST of Northern Hemisphere summers, by “coolest” I mean intellectually satisfying in the sense of “hep.” Three websites provided tidbit gleaning, shared here in Parts 1 and 2 … Continue reading
КАК СКАЗАТЬ «DOOFUS» ПО-РУССКИ?
DUBIOUS INTERNET COMMUNICATION IS OFTEN REVEALED BY misspellings and other grammatical errors: “This Nigerian prinse have mony for yu.” And, thus, today’s SimanaitisSays title translates to “How to Say “Doofus” … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
DOES THE SPORTS CAR EXIST?—A 40-YEAR PERSPECTIVE PART 1
BACK IN MARCH 1984, R&T did a comparison test of “Six 2-Seaters” cited recently here at SimanaitisSays. This and following images from R&T, March 1984. Accompanying that comparison test was … Continue reading →