AN EARLY FARCE—YET AS TIMELY AS TODAY’S HEADLINES PART 1
LET US PAUSE to enjoy theatrical farce. In fact, The Farce of Pierre Pathelin may be one of the earliest of its kind, the genre defined by Merriam-Webster as “a … Continue reading
VOTE!!
TODAY, NOVEMBER 3, as we all recognize, is Election Day. But not just any election day. Here in California. Wife Dottie and I put our ballots in the mail on … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
ON ORIGINALISM PART 1
THERE HAS BEEN much discussion recently about originalism in its interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Judge Amy Coney Barrett argued “that I interpret the Constitution as a law, that I … Continue reading
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