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Month: June 2020

  • Sandbox – 12jun20

    [The dollar value of human lives was touched on in the last Sandbox.  I predict that this topic will be quickly forgotten by our leftwing readers, since it will be a debate to which they must needs arrive unarmed.  gjr]

  • Pandemics are a Systems Management Problem

    George Rebane [After working on my epidemic spread and testing models, I cobbled together this structured draft on 7 May 2020, and have put off posting it due to other more compelling analytical problems having to do with the pandemic.  Now that I’m seeing other systems professionals coming to the same conclusion – e.g. ‘How…

  • Scattershots – 10jun20 (updated 13jun20)

    George Rebane Beware of people who need outliers to make their point, and then use these to cloud the big picture. Food prices are soaring even though plants are coming back on line and distribution problems have been solved.  The producers’ argument is that worker safety requires reconfiguration of work spaces and the introduction of…

  • Hurricane George Floyd

    “In October 1913, the Bolsheviks were a small radical Russian faction. No reasonable person would have predicted that within a mere four years they would take over the country.” Y.N. Harari, Sapiens (2014). George Rebane The on-camera, tragic and unjustified killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman has unleashed a social storm across America…

  • Antifa Rising (updated 9jun20)

    George Rebane Motivated by the ongoing George Floyd protests cum riots, I renewed my interest in finding out more about Antifa – is it an organization or merely a movement of loosely coupled cells operating all over the country?  The discussions in our comment streams seem to divide along ideological lines – those leaning right…

  • Riot Reflections – 5jun20 (updated 6jun20)

    George Rebane Taking a knee during our national anthem.  This has now become the woke behavior of all right-thinking people in our land where we are free to protest our government and institutions 24/7 (although not always with impunity since the 1A is ailing and in desperate straits).  Given that, remains there no sacrosanct ceremony…

  • Sandbox – 4jun20

    [Apologies for letting the 2jun20 Sandbox get out of hand with all of its misplaced comments that I should have deleted as they appeared.  Here I’m talking about the pandemic and George Floyd response comments that had homes under my other topical commentaries.  I’ll try to do a much better job in this sandbox to…

  • Returning to Race-based College Admissions

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my resumed regular KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 3 June 2020.] Former University of California regent Ward Connerly founded the American Civil Rights Institute in response to the corrupt racism that affirmative action introduced into state government contracting, public jobs hiring, and deciding who would be admitted to state schools. …

  • Scattershots – 3jun20 (updated 4jun20)

    George Rebane Worldwide lockdowns were triggered by panicky politicians who listened to the ‘eminent epidemiologist’ Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London.  He came out with a slew of mortality predictions almost every country of note by monkeying with his models.  Trouble is that none of them came anywhere near true, but politicians were reluctant…

  • Sandbox – 2jun20

    [It's now established that we have a full-service House Speaker in Nancy Pelosi.  She has donned the additional mantle of Congressional Spiritual Adviser.  And as her first task in that new responsibility, she has taken the President under her wing with pointed counsel directing his scriptural pursuits.  We already know of her as a woman…

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