Two wonderful things in my life have come out of Argentina. One is Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time World Champion Formula One driver and the best racing driver of all time. (Screw the modern ones, driving cars more akin to UFOs than real racing cars. Fangio drove stuff that looked like real cars.) Fangio was my hero during my high-school days. He persists as one of my favorite heroes today. Here he’s taking a 250F Maserati Formula One car around a test circuit, four-wheel-drifting the corners. Yes, Mildred, all four wheels are sliding, under the control of the gas pedal. Don’t try this at home. Note that he’s not wearing a seat belt…de rigueur for the time. Ditto the absence of fire suit, special shoes, big helmet, etc., that the current drivers wear:
The second really good thing to come out of, or rather to take over, Argentina is Javier Milei, who campaigned with a chainsaw which he promised to use to cut the chaff out of Argentina’s failing political scene. True to his word, he cut and cut and goes on cutting the garbage out of Argentina’s bureaucracy, bringing the country out of its nosedive toward total poverty and oblivion. But recently he did himself one better:
He gave a CHAINSAW to Elon Musk to help Elon cut the trash out of DC! Here’s the presentation from one super-trimmer to another: