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It’s spring! Let’s go stomp on some daisies! OK, we’ll explain that later. For the moment let us all celebrate the formal beginning of the freshest season, which in 2021’s case falls on Saturday, March 20. In this northern hemisphere at 5:37am the sun crosses the equator on the annual northward swing, signaling the vernal equinox. By the way, equinox isn’t about day but night. It is the date that generally speaking night-time hours are equal on either side of the equator. The south side by the way begins fall as they wave the sun sadly good-bye. The spring edition can fall on March 19, 20, or 21, and it would have been too convenient if ‘21’s edition had been...

It’s sorta strange how the loudest record-setting of modern American sporting history came from such a quiet fellow. But that was Henry Louis Aaron, who let his big bat make all the noise in a marvelous, even definitive baseball lifetime.

The name is instantly associated with ultra-performance sports cars, as well as more lately with almost equally-capable sedans and SUVs. But the fundamental fact is Porsche made that name, not to mention founded its fortune, on the slow, homely, uncomfortable, and dirt-reliable Volkswagen Beetle.