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  • Steve Enos Files Brown Act Complaint

    George Rebane RR reader, critic, and former Grass Valley city councilman Steve Enos has filed a complaint against the City of Grass Valley citing violations of the Brown Act.  Steve’s email to me this morning summarized his concerns and the nature of his complaint.  With his permission, the following is extracted from his email and…

  • ‘From P-books to E-books’ to iPad

    George Rebane Today Steve Jobs of Apple brought out the long-awaited iPad.  It is the gizmo that Apple hopes will become the way we will do most of our information gathering and online communications.  Well actually, the iPad does even more as you can read from their brag sheet here. I have been predicting the…

  • At the Birth of Pork

    George Rebane Did you ever stand on the bank of a mighty river like the Missouri and contemplate its majestic and massive flow?  There it appears mighty and unstoppable in its progress to the ocean where it is swallowed up without a trace.  And then your thoughts turn to how such a behemoth starts from…

  • Ex Plures Duos (updated 28jan2010)

    George Rebane For the last thirty years or so we have been awakened by NPR’s morning program.  Locally that means listening to KXJZ 90.9 from Sacramento.  The format starts with inter/national news and then California news slanted toward our part of the state.  Both news programs seem to be politically pretty vanilla.  Oh, every once…

  • The Moral Economy of Scale in Murder

    George Rebane   RR reader, critic, and contributor Steven Frisch has a well developed and worthy of debate world view.  He posted a comment to some statements I made here regarding the history of death by government and, by implication, its portents for America.  Steve took my brief explication of 20th century state sponsored/executed mass murders…

  • Our New Subsidized Economy

    George Rebane Speaking to us while still wearing his kneepads from the meeting with the feds (Pelosi and gang), Governor Schwarzenegger reminded us that California gets back only 78 cents on every dollar it sends to Washington.  Then why don’t we instead just send them 22 cents and call it even?  

  • Ruminations – 21jan2010 (updated)

    George Rebane open letter to the President interview with Dr Anna [update] Glenn Beck special  After Massachusetts, the leftwing of the progressive movement is exhorting President Obama to do better in 2010 lest we witness “the re-emergence of a vicious, feudal corporatism.”  It is instructive for all, especially those not wedded to socialism, to read…

  • Repudiation

    George Rebane Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts yesterday should send a clear message to all progressives in the country, especially of the Democrat ilk.  But I doubt that it will.  The true believers will just hunker down and figure out how to recast the socialist revolution they are trying to pull off.  Fundamental transformation of…

  • Ruminations – 19jan2010

    George Rebane • Avatar – the screenplay• Haiti and foreign aid I was reminded of my naivete by an email from a RR reader with a link to an article that discussed the message delivered by the film Avatar.  This blockbuster raises the bar for producing movies rich in very realistic computer graphics and extends all this into…

  • Avatars Lauren and Bogie, Together Again

    George Rebane In the early 1980s my firm in Los Angeles had just bought and installed the most advanced computer graphics system available.  It was the second one on the west coast (the other one belonged to a big aerospace company) and we used it to create multi-media images and videos for the then new…

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