Sunday, February 07, 2016

Change of Venue

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On the First of February I moved my blog to Five Cent Thinking -two things prompted that move.  First, if a penny for your thoughts is st...
Sunday, June 08, 2014

Suspension

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You will note that Rambles has not published much in 2014.   In the next few months I will make a decision about whether to a) go back to pu...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

The Diplomat Buyers Club

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The other day Jon Stewart did a very funny episode on several new ambassadors who had seem to have been appointed without reference to any q...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

The Consumer Reports of Boycotts

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One of the outcomes of the Superbowl was a controversy about an Israeli company called SodaStream .   SodaStream sells a device which inje...
Monday, February 03, 2014

How do we deal with the new McCarthy-ists?

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The picture is from a website called "Stop Telling Lies about Liberals and We'll Stop Telling the Truth About You."    I hav...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The State of the Union

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I realize that many of my partisan friends will find this to be a partisan comment - but it is not meant that way.   I listened to the Presi...

Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger died yesterday at 94.   The New York Times did a great article summarizing his very long career.  But I wanted to add this foot...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Redundant Nanny Statism at its worst?

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The penetration of Smartphones and Tablets into our everyday lives has been very quick.   Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission announced a...