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  • Singularity Scattershots – 5aug12

    George Rebane The report of the latest employment numbers underlines our deep and abiding national innumeracy.  So-called balanced reports of ‘on this hand, but on the other hand’ completely miss the amassing evidence for the systemic labor problem in these pre-Singularity years.  Here there is no ‘on the other hand’ – the creation of 163,000…

  • American Progressivism – Epic Failure

    Mike McDaniel Any quality strategy should include a performance matrix to analyze said strategy.  The progressive strategy, jump started in 1913 (16th Amendment and Federal Reserve Act- later amended in 1977), put on steroids under Franklin D Roosevelt’s “New Deal” and Lyndon B. Johnson “Great Society,” has failed Americans.  If the intention of the progressive…

  • Ruminations – 30jul12

    George Rebane *** Readers know my position on our country’s teachers’ unions.  They are the documented scourge to education and America’s youth.  Now two more examples of these rotten organizations are making headlines in selected news media (forget the lamestream).  In Louisiana the state’s second largest teachers’ union is suing the state for a new…

  • Transhumanism, Cosmism, and the Singularity

    George Rebane Last week my son-in-law sent me David Brin’s latest great sci-fi novel, Existence.   I couldn’t help but immediately put it into my reading stack.  Like most of you who frequent RR, I read several books concurrently, and Brin’s description of the state of the world in mid-century was something I had to know…

  • ‘Does God Watch Paint Dry?’

    George Rebane [I fear that this posting will be of little interest to most RR readers.  It is memorialized here as part of my personal record of thought that I am willing to share with those few whose interest might be piqued by such subjects.] Religions in general and Christianity in particular are suffering an…

  • Reinette on a Roll

    George Rebane Reading this morning’s Union I couldn’t help but notice the front page piece (paywalled here) on Sierra Roots and the Common Ground Homeless Garden.  The project is the handiwork of former Nevada City mayor Reinette Senum.  Its objective is to help down and out people in the county to have “a safe place…

  • When you don’t know grammar

    George Rebane In these pages over the years I have taken a gentle jab at the growing gaggle of grammatical gaffes that now rain down on us from every quarter of society.  My own concern was not so much about formalism for the sake of formalism, but promoting formalism for the sake of clear communications. …

  • Dream Act Jr = American Nightmare (Addended)

    George Rebane [This the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 22 June 2012.] Our imperial President has announced another scheme to end-run the Congress and the Constitution with what some are calling Dream Act Jr – the senior version ran into a hornets’ nest of anti-amnesty sentiment in Congress.  In case you haven’t…

  • ‘Whose fault?’ and ‘market morality’

    George Rebane On Russ Steele’s NC2012 there is a comment stream in which people are groping for some middle ground.  I have contributed to it by asking what would one do with such a middle ground, were one to be discovered.  The point being that it’s highly likely that there is no profitable middle ground…

  • Silencing and Suppressing the Right

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that will be broadcast early next week due to this week being the station’s regular late spring pledge week.] The debate about who is trying to silence whom continues.  Over the past decades the evidence has favored the Right since McCarthy was accused of…

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