Gordon's Notes

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

 [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 ...

This is the last in a short series of post that  began on Nov 11, 2020 , shortly after Biden won the presidency for the first time. Back the...

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. ...

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...

It's Nov 6, 2020 and I believe Trump's presidency is ending. I look forward to forgetting him, but one day I'll be asked what al...

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...

It is my privilege to announce that I will running for the Presidency of the United States of America. I understand that, as a foreign born...

Medicare for All won’t work in 2020. We have an insurmountable path dependency problem. We can, however, implement the ACA public option. I...

Robert F Kennedy Jr showed up in a scrum of pro-measles whackos recently. It  me wonder how he got so nuts. There’s an extensive wikipedia...

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...

There’s a nasty flaw in Minnesota’s vote by mail process. When you apply for a mail ballot you are asked to provider either a SSN last 4 or...

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...

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. That was the end of Russia’s Empire, the end of the USSR. I was 30 years old. I may still have a n...

From NYT essay on Weinstein and his enablers an interesting set of misogynistic relationships … Weinstein’s Complicity Machine - The New Y...