Gordon's Notes

In the Fever Days after September 2011, I wrote a bit about " the cost of havoc ". The premise was that technology was consistentl...

Robert Ebert:   "Here is a record of mass shootings in the United States since 2005. It is 62 pages long ... The hell with it. I'm ...

The good news is that it's still hard to design a lethal plague. The 'cost of havoc' is higher than I once thought. Yes,  influ...

Most things do not end the way I once imagined. The buildings don’t collapse because the foundation is gone. They sag. They fade. For a long...

I’ve not written much about the underwear bomber , mostly because the inanity of the public discussion is so depressing. Schneier , as usu...

Maybe it's the influence of Gail Collins, maybe it's disgust with the GOP's institutionalized hysteria, maybe it's just chan...

In the modern world, large scale human military operations are quite expensive (emphases mine) ... Kristof - More Schools, Not Troops - NYTi...

Birthers believe Barack Obama's birth certificate was faked. Deathers believe Obama's health care reform bill is Soylent Green in d...

The infamous green shoots of economic recovery are dust now, but I feel twinges of optimism about climate change. A few weeks ago I wrote ...

The 200 cases are the ones that get caught (emphases mine) … Mohamed ElBaradei warns of new nuclear age | World news | The Guardian ...

If not for what we've learned, we'd now be reliving the Great Depression ... It’s 1930 time - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com .... W...

Those playful primates are at it again ... Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home - Yahoo! News Using homemade lab eq...

As expected, Schneier's analysis of the Mumbai attacks , is much better than anything from the mainstream media, including the WSJ, NYT ...

There is, of course, these press leaks are related to the Obama transition. The WMDs are back. Emphases and italics mine. Panel Fears Use of...

Leahy is one of the smartest and most respected senators in the business. Now I really don't believe the FBI. Senator, Target of Anthrax...

The post-9/11 epoch looks worse and worse as time goes by. The torture, the incompetent invasion (great move - start by alienating Turkey), ...

It's good to note these things. This Modern World - It’s Repentin’ Time in Heaven : ....here’s Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri this morning, e...

Presumably the NSA was truly responsible for cracking Khan's hard drive. It wasn't easy ... Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Wea...

Twice in the past 7 years, ABC news has smuggled depleted uranium, with a radioactivity signature comparable to highly enriched uranium (HEU...

I heard Lester Brown on NPR this morning. That took me back 27 years. Bear with me, there's a reason to start then. Once upon a time I w...