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  • RR joins Sacramento Connect

    George Rebane Last week I received a kind invitation from Sacramento Connect (logo nearby) to have Ruminations join Sacramento Bee’s network of northern California blogs.  After making sure I understood the agreement that goes with such a relationship, I accepted and got busy doing all the ‘paperwork’ and installing the little pop-up toolbar that the member…

  • Disconnected and Reconnected in Germany

    George Rebane We arrived in Germany last Friday, flying British Airways from SFO to London to Munich.  There we rented a car and took off into the countryside heading for southern Bavaria to attend the birthday gathering of a longtime friend we have known for 50 years.  About 35 people, most of whom we know,…

  • Renovating Ruminations

    George Rebane The conservative blogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds.  Recent welcome additions are Todd Juvinall’s Sierra Dragon’s Breath and Mike Sherman RV Nut.  Adding these to the CABPRO Report, Inside NC Politics, NC Tea Party Patriots, and, of course, Russ Steele’s flagship NC Media Watch strikes me as quite an array of local…

  • A Growing Chasm of Opinions

    George Rebane [This is the submitted form of my monthly column which appears today 11 September 2010 in The Union's print and online editions here.] ‘But that’s just your opinion.’  Have you ever had anyone throw that little bomb into what you thought was a productive discussion?  Today when many people talk about important issues…

  • Fred and Margie’s Odyssey

    George Rebane Fred and Margie Buhler are established pillars of our community.  They volunteer and serve on boards, commissions, and organizations to the benefit of all who live here.  Recently they took a leave (here) from the Nevada County Friends of the Military, an organization they helped found, packed up their magnificent fifth-wheel, and headed overland…

  • The Podcars Are Coming

    George Rebane   Wired reports that Segway technology has now found its way into a new line of small urban people movers – well OK, call them cars or podcars.  To me the most amazing thing about them is that they are being introduced by General Motors, and in China to boot.  Don’t know much…

  • ‘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…

  • Why Reason Fails

    George Rebane “It ain’t what you don’t know that worries me, it’s what you know that ain’t so.”  Will Rogers We are often taught that parties can always settle their differences by engaging in a reasoned dialogue – ‘Come, let us reason together.’  But the evidence, today available in thousands of comment threads on more…

  • Planning for Green

    George Rebane The recent spate of social engineering and economic stimulus programs issuing from Washington again motivates communities that hope to get some federal funding to propose and plan local projects that may catch the eye of an appropriate czar in the current administration.  All things ‘green’ seem to garnering most favor, and now everyone…

  • Our New Puppy

    George Rebane Two or so weeks ago we got our new puppy as we arrived home from our granddaughter’s wedding in Denver.  We are dog people and we have been without a puppy since our noble Neiu went to her reward over two years ago.  It was an ordeal getting this mutt since we don’t…

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