Gordon's Notes

I noticed a while back that eating disorders were no longer an active area of public anxiety. So I looked at Google Trends since 2004 (clic...

My current social media vice is Mastodon , with Threads 2nd and Bluesky a distant 3rd. (For me Facebook isn't actually a vice; it'...

Over the past year or two several of my favorite writers have expressed uncertainty about the American cultural standard for "manliness...

 [Copied over from a tweet stream .] So now I'm trying to figure out what Great Replacement Theory is. It seems to be one part true and ...

First check out the Time magazine covers for 1965 . That was a very long time ago. Things have improved. Now look at the April 2nd issue an...

Somewhere in my twitter stream mention was made of the "virtual camera" and its advantages for videoconferencing especially as a r...

I'm a fairly average sleeper for my age, but this morning I gave up a bit before 4am. With the unexpected time I finished Yuval Harari&#...

I'm on the way to writing about what I think should be Biden's #2 priority (#1 is undoing Trump's executive orders). Three previ...

In the Fall of 2020 the American people decided to dump Trump. Americans didn't agree on much else; voters rejected significant change. ...

What would make someone "middle class" in 2020? I like to think of this in terms of what a "middle class" 30 yo adult sh...

A few days ago I listed about 25 reasons that Donald Trump should not be President . Any one of them is sufficient by itself. There are lots...

I've written only a few COVID-19 posts , mostly about masks and activities. Looking back at them today they hold up pretty well. This fe...

Viktor Frankl formed some of his opinions of human nature by surviving several concentration camps. After his release, in a few days, he wr...

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

Twitter will become a blend of home shopping network, daytime TV, and tabloid news. That might be quite profitable. There is money in sane...

It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to worship both Christ and Trump. But if you demote Christ and elevate Trump, both can have similar Prop...

My Twitter feed often ascribes GOP dominance at the state and federal level, and the patriarchal policies that follow, to male choices. Tha...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

The first thing I did on the web, as a class assignment sometime between 1994 and 1995, was a personal profile . I just reread it. Ouch. I w...

I’m going to translate the subtexts and signals of  What’s Wrong With the Democrats? - The Atlantic  into plain language: Democrats should...