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  • Crossin’ da ribbah!

    George Rebane True to form, RR readers couldn’t wait for me to get my act together and post on the 6jan17 intelligence community report about Russia meddling in our 2016 election.  The post ‘The Russians did it’ appeared in due time, but not before its dissection commanded quite a bit of real estate in the…

  • Large Area Surveillance and Suppression System (updated 22dec16)

    Feedback is the virtue that turns democracy with all its vices, into the least-worst political system.  (And) feedback is turning the incalculable Trump into a tractable, potentially successful president.  Holman W. Jenkins Jr. George Rebane The latest Muslim terrorist attacks in European cities continue to change the cultural landscape of western civilization.  Ground level attacks…

  • Scattershots – 18dec16 (updated 21dec16)

    George Rebane Voice from behind the curtain – ‘Pay no attention to the correlation.’ [update]  A reader has pointed out that the above crime map is inaccurate and cites and article in the 16nov16 WaPo (here) that claims to present better data in the map below.  The article’s conclusion is italicized. The violent crime map shows…

  • Stack & Pack Air Travel

    George Rebane This morning’s WSJ report (here) on how airlines are making economy class air travel even less inviting jogged some memories of a new concept that I’ve discussed with my technology development buddies over the years.  Maybe now that the uncomfortable version of stack/pack seating has become de rigueur, it’s time to again consider…

  • Polling Phollies

    George Rebane We must always remember that more often than not the public mind is fickle, frantic, and foolish. No one can escape the polls during this election season whose results will be deemed cataclysmic by at least half of the American electorate, no matter who wins.  So all kinds of people from government, campaigns,…

  • George Boardman nails it

    George Rebane Columnist and RR reader George Boardman wrote an excellent and timely critique of California’s STEM education available today in our secondary schools.  Not only did he present relevant stats on the status of courses offered across the state, he also gave a chilling summary of the new revisionist history and social studies subjects that…

  • Web Handles – their use and abuse

    George Rebane The topic of anonyimity in web comment streams has risen again in these pages.  The most recent instigation was the advent of a commenter who signed himself  “XXXXX” that set off a stream of responses from other commenters some of whom also use a ‘nom de web’.  Under ‘Hillary’s First Loyalty’ I questioned XXXXX’s…

  • The Day Justice Died (updated 8jul16)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 6 July 2016.] Today millions of Americans believe that yesterday morning we saw justice publicly executed at the hand of a corrupt federal government.  And the executioner was none other than FBI Director James Comey, who was not supposed to wield…

  • Guaranteed National Income and Jobs (updated)

    George Rebane We in the IT development industry became aware over thirty years ago that the coming technology revolution would destroy more human jobs than create new ones.  Things would be different, very different.  No one believed us, least of all government types and those in the social sciences.  They all had their eyes in…

  • Still wrong about liberal arts majors

    George Rebane Political science major and entrepreneur David Kalt writes ‘Why I Was Wrong About Liberal-Arts Majors’ in the 1jun16 WSJ.  There he argues from his experience that it’s really the liberal arts majors –  philosophy, history, music, … – who have the best background to become what he knows as “computer programmers”.  Why?  Because…

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