Gordon's Notes

I liked this relatively readable yet detailed summary of the State of the Great Recession. Emphases mine. America's crisis in a his...

I've already received emails inspired by McCaughey's latest ploys. Health Wars II have begun. James Fallows warns us to watch for th...

Tom Peters is an establishment management guru. He's not on the scale of the true greats like Machiavelli or Sun Tzu [1], but he's...

"If humans could learn from history, there wouldn't be so much of it." me “Our vision is every book, ever printed, in any ...

Google, I am your servant. Google has saved my iPhone from a heel grinding. As of today I have Push connection to five of our family calen...

I'd assumed that Obama, a Chicago pol, was cynical smart, and all this "bipartisan" stuff was just chaff to distract the enemy...

When Google is having technical problems (as in this morning) the net feels slow. That's because, for me, Google is a lot of the net I...

Not for us, for my mother who has macular degeneration and limited vision ... Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device...

Imagine we lived in an alternate reality where Apple didn't forbid applications that competed with its iPhone suite. Yes, I know it'...

I usually discount predictions of American outrage. As near as I can tell, America has been seriously stoned for at least 8 years. On the ot...

The deal with the GOP "centrists", per Krugman: What the centrists have wrought - Paul Krugman ...The real question now is whether...

Five more from Dyer (apologies for formatting): The Cuban Revolution at Fifty Thieves'...

The phone chirped notice of an incoming text message. We don't have an SMS plan, so that's unusual. Was it an urgent message from my...

It is a small thing, by itself. Unfortunately, it is just one more bit of nasty among so many more , and it's such a quintessential bit...

Geez. This stuff really isn't so hard. The headline on the White House Blog post today is: " A few more months of rabbit ears "...