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  • The Webb at a million miles, really?

    George Rebane The recently launched Webb space telescope will be able to peer further back in time and see more of what was then there.  As an amateur cosmologist, I’ve been interested in this new instrument for some years now.  It brings these new capabilities to bear because of its very large mirror and that…

  • Tangles in the Underwear (updated 3feb22)

    “Nothing good ever comes out of communism.”  Sen Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) George Rebane From the Biden presidential library’s White House telephone record archives – Operator: Justice Breyer, will you please hold for the President? Breyer: Oh sure. Biden: Hey Stevo, we’re gonna announce your retirement today, and I didn’t want you to see it on…

  • Systems Sciences Refute Collectivism

    George Rebane [This contribution is a periodic review of a major stave of Rebane Doctrine.  It attempts to explain to the intelligent reader why collectivist governance and policies are doomed to failure.  The punchline is that they violate the fundamental laws of nature (i.e. our universe) which, of course, includes certain evolved and long established…

  • Ruminations – 17jan22 (updated 18jan22)

    George Rebane A zealot is one who identifies intimately with his message, and opposes all efforts to reasonably falsify the message because doing so would also falsify him. A brief compendium of current observations for the record. Conservatives are (fascists, racists, white supremacists, … pick one or more) and work constantly to have government limit…

  • Democrats’ Newspeak – 13jan22 (updated 31jan22)

    George Rebane [A slightly edited version of this piece appeared in the 29jan22 op-ed pages of The Union, titled ‘Democrats’ ‘Newspeak' a radical ideological agenda’.  As you can see from the comment stream under article, once again none of the leftwingers understand the message and simply play their strong suit in attacking the messenger –…

  • The Covid testing fiasco grows

    George Rebane Now there are not enough tests, and the desired rapid tests are really unreliable, and regardless of test results, it is probably safer to let Omicron spread than mess with it, if you’re not in one of those vulnerable classes, and more to come.  All this on top of the simple fact that…

  • Dark Days Diary – 8jan22 (updated 12jan22)

    George Rebane The shameful declines of Scientific American and NPR.  In days of yore, both media outlets were posterchildren of professional and responsible journalism.  And during the last twenty years both have embarked on a shameful decline that shows no signs of stopping.  SA, published continuously since the 1840s, served as the periodic and apolitical…

  • The “Insurrection” one year on

    George Rebane Calling and pursuing the 6jan21 Capitol riot as an ‘insurrection’ is the new litmus test for identifying those of the Left in America. Countless leftwing naïfs across the country – e.g. Tom Durkin (here) in the 6jan22 Union – are decrying the “death of democracy”, which supposedly started with what they call a…

  • The Beta-Rho Sham? (Addended)

    George Rebane Here’s a little something from my financial engineering toy box that one or two RR readers may find interesting.  The discussion is a tiny bit technical, but the pictures should be accessible to all.  Most investors know that a stock’s beta (Greek β) is a number that indicates how well the security tracks…

  • Predicting 2022 (updated 1jan22)

    George Rebane 2022 will be another pivotal year in a growing string of such recent years.  Most predictions, save the premature happy dancing by Republicans, range between dour and cataclysmic.  A reader gives us a taste of that by pointing to James Howard Kunstler’s entry in Clusterfuck Nation with his ‘Forecast 2022 – Dumpster Fire…

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