Bloviating? That "first post" might have been succinct and correct, but I leaned nothing from it (Jerry had already confirmed with a documented-reference that one-polarity voltage regulators were common). Denny only asked to see the document - he did not doubt Jerry.

And, as Denny notes, we also now know that many replacement voltage regulators can go both ways.

On the other hand, it should be noted that bloviation refers not only to "long winded" it refers to "empty and pompous". Where do we see that, above?