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Month: May 2018

  • Ruminations – 30may18 (updated 5jun18)

    George Rebane Politically incorrect and nationally syndicated economist Dr Walter Williams offers his thoughts on ‘Why Capitalism is Morally Superior to Socialism’.  The short essay is worth a read, as are some of its leftwing comments.  The US poverty level has been a political football for years.  The Left keeps upping it regularly in order…

  • Sandbox – 30may18

    [Today our merrily marching Marxists, comprised of our dimly lit and under educated leftwingers, have no idea that their new ideological epiphanies are nothing but the retrieved (from the dustbin of history) and reheated tenets of 20th century communists who killed untold millions as they ruined the lives and hopes of billions – "you have…

  • Scattershots – 29may18 (updated)

    George Rebane The Great Divide debate continues as muddled as ever.  We refer to leftwing commenter jon smith’s 134pm re my 1104am in the 26may18 Sandbox.  The man(?) is apparently not aware of the years-long Great Divide debate in these pages and in the national dialogue (also referenced here, see RR’s ‘Great Divide’ category).  In…

  • Mr Boardman’s dabble in STEM education

    George Rebane Our irrepressible Union columnist George Boardman’s Memorial Day contribution (here) took a swipe at those of us who “are always griping about the lack of emphasis on the STEM subjects, the math and science course that can get you a good paying job in our information-based economy.”  It’s not clear what Mr Boardman’s…

  • Memorial Day – 28 May 2018

    George Rebane Once more we gratefully contemplate the terrible price paid by those who gave their all so that America may remain the land of opportunity and the home of the free.  The words and photo from Memorial Day – 30 May 2011 still apply, and this video will explain the cost.

  • Sapir-Whorf on the Art of Coding and the Communications Conundrum

    George Rebane In his ‘Code to Joy’ essay (featured in the Jun-Jul 2018 issue of 1843, the Economist’s bi-monthly features magazine), science writer and author Andrew Smith almost discovers Sapir-Whorf.  But not quite, and therein lies a tale.  The man had been writing about computer technology and its impact on our lives for most of…

  • Sandbox – 26may18

    [So Starbucks is going to sensitize all their employees in all their 8,000+ stores this coming Tuesday afternoon.  Anyone have any idea what difference such newly sensitive employees will make when all the stores will be open to anyone wanting to get in out of the rain and cold, and take advantage of a pause…

  • Scattershots – 25may18 (updated 27may18)

    George Rebane Legal CCW guns continue to save lives.  The recent spate of shootings again demonstrates that only a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun – everything else is progressive blather.  A reader’s comment highlights the FBI’s recently released ‘Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2016 and…

  • Ruminations – 22may18

    George Rebane America’s students are still struggling as they compete for leadership in the high tech job markets of today and tomorrow with other students arount the world.  A correspondent from the east coast emailed me the following – “The 2015 Program for International Student Assessment tests 15-year old students around the world.. It's administered by…

  • Sandbox – 18may18

    [More school killings, this time with a revolver and a shotgun – no semi-autos in sight, yet the killings continue.  When do we come to a national conclusion that it is the shooters we should do better at identifying and stopping, rather than taking guns from law abiding citizens?  gjr]

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