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  • Administrivia – Comment posting problems (updated)

    George Rebane I've received emails from readers that comments don't post reliably or disappear after they are posted.  Am working on this with TypePad.  Please keep the faith since I don't know when they will get the problem fixed.  Thank you. [update]  The problem seems to have been fixed.

  • Calvin’s Econ 101

    “The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.”  Abraham Lincoln George Rebane This post is unabashedly lifted from and is composed of content, in whole cloth, from reader emails.  (I am still in mourning over Bill Watterson’s decision to retire the strip in 1995;…

  • Adiministrivia – 13oct2011

    George Rebane Less than an hour ago we got our trailer parked (more or less) in its assigned spot.  We have returned from a trip on which I was consigned to the Black Hole of Connectivity.  I notice that the RR comment streams  have continued to grow with a dull roar from which my little…

  • ‘Investors sell …’ – What a crock!

    George Rebane Time to vent.  One of today’s financial reporters again comes out with – “U.S. stocks sank in afternoon trading as investors worried about policymakers’ ability to contain Europe’s debt crisis.” (28sep11 WSJ)  You read this kind of pabulum constantly in the financial press.  ‘Investors believe X, therefore they sell’, ‘Investors look forward to…

  • Ruminations – 14sep2011 (updated 16sep2011)

    President Obama's approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States." –Jay Leno George Rebane Republican Bob Turner wins over a century of Democrat incumbency in New York Nine.  It turned out to be issues instead of long time party loyalty, and Obama lost on the issues. …

  • Summit Sillies

    George Rebane Things have been getting a little too serious around here – and may again.    “No you didn’t Nick, I beat you fair and square!  Next time we do it for real; pack your stuff.”

  • Large Scale Emergencies to Prepare for

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my July column in the 9jul11 Union.  Its online version is available here.] Have you thought about what you and your family will do in the face of a large scale emergency that directly impacts Nevada County?  Most people hereabouts think of the Forty-Niner Fire of 1988…

  • Orthogonality – Semantic and Otherwise

    George Rebane These pages see a lot of debate between commenters of widely varying ideological stripe.  One of the problems often encountered by the reader of comment threads, embedded in a posted article's comment stream, is that one debater suddenly posts a comment that somehow does not follow what went on before – it seems…

  • Vestiges of Understanding, perhaps toward a Consensus?

    George Rebane The lengthy comment streams on RR, each containing several comment threads dissecting various ideas, are a joy to behold.  In these pages we join to discuss weighty propositions and happenings that range from the nature of the universe to the why, what, and how of the critters that inhabit our planet.  Mostly we…

  • RR Administrivia

    George Rebane I have removed the indented reply feature from the comment threads.  A reader suggested its implementation, and it seemed like a good idea.  But then it soon became apparent that new comments were suddenly buried 'in the past', attached to some previous comment thread which was invisible to an arriving commenter.  This obfuscation…

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