Gordon's Notes

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...

While recently rereading Banks’ marvelous book The Algebraist I decide I ought to write a post about “The Truth”, which is basically Bostro...

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...

Roger Ebert wrote a column on gun control and received 650 comments. He read them all. Then he responded, with one of his best columns eve...

Five years Romney was running for President. Back then I wrote: Gordon's Notes: Romney: not possible In order to win the GOP primarie...

Unsurprisingly, given the current state of the GOP presidential primary, people who'd prefer to vote GOP are advocating third party equi...

It hurts me to read blogs or editorials written by 2012 Republicans. Oddly enough people like Santorum don't bother me as much as the R...

"With great power comes great responsibility." Gingrich's inner geek smiled at that one. Certainly they had the power. The Dem...

The American "War on Christmas" movement seems thoroughly silly .... Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass – Whatever ...i...

This is purest idiocy ... Why affirm ‘In God we trust’? - - The Washington Post Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives spent a good bi...

The GOP is morally and intellectually bankrupt -- and they're likely to get another chance to finish off America. This is, of course, t...

We commies have a problem. We are dependent on the money of corporations and the votes of the masses. It's not our only problem. We ha...

Rick Perry is running for president. In case you hadn't noticed. This is telling .... Perry's Surgery Included Experimental Stem Cel...

I've written recently about the role of religion in the reasoning of the GOP base . This is an  elephant in the room ; pundits will disc...

Theocratic states are, by definition, not rational. Stalinist Russia, Fascist Germany, Mao's China, Kim's Korea, Revolutionary Iran ...

The weak are inescapable. Live long enough? Probably weak. Child? Weak. Wrong genes? Not so strong. Blacksmith post-horses? Tribe out of po...

I used to teach Bayesian reasoning to informatics students. I couldn't justify to them why such simple math felt both spooky and profoun...

As a Catholic schoolboy in 1930s Quebec my father practiced a form of polemics known as Apologetics [1]. He argued through reason for the ...

I consider this a respectable and rational basis for denying that the earth's climate is being significantly altered by human greenhouse...

Christine O’Donnell . Linda McMahon . Sharron Angle . Names to conjure with! The Tea Party’s fruitbat coven strikes fear into the hearts ...