Tag: Constants and Constants
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Rita’s talent
Lately I’ve been listening to several Hollywood gossip columns in my OTR bedtime list. The available selection is extremely sparse, only about a dozen altogether. Most are Louella Parsons, with a couple from Erskine Johnson and Nancy Terry. The dates range from ’46 through ’54. Nearly all have one common factor: Rita Hayworth. She was…
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Catching onto the magsman
Liron Shapira is puzzled by Balaji, the top galaxybrain bully. Balaji isn’t a mystery, he’s a classic conman type. I’ve mentioned him in two different references. Now that I look at both together, I realize they’re both British and both from the same decade. (1) Definition from the 1874 dictionary of British slang: Magsman, a…
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Why miss a chance to show your skill 2
Brazil’s auto industry used to apply considerable design skill to its adaptations of foreign cars. Willys and Ford and GM and VW all had Brazilian plants that began with assembly and quickly expanded into truly original products. Now Brazil’s extension of our Deepstate is copying FBI products with no adaptation or originality at all. FBI…
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Not free
My version of Santayana: Those who don’t know that history repeats are doomed to be ruined by the repeaters. Those who think academic cancelling is new and abnormal will waste their time fighting a permanent and natural tendency. Frank Edwards runs down the history of academic censorship on the subject of ET life. In 1880…
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