Weeping

Posted on April 14, 2025March 28, 2025 by Simon

“The more I see the more I find reason for those who love this country to weep over its blindness.” Alexander Hamilton From Alexander Hamilton the excellent biography by Ron Chernow This r... Read More

WWIT about the US 2024 Election

Posted on April 1, 2024March 31, 2024 by Simon

WWIT (What Was I Thinking) about the Trump vs Biden rematch for President of the United States? People tend to be herd animals and they adapt their opinions to match those around them. Currently I pre... Read More

Election Day Should be a Day

Posted on November 2, 2022November 1, 2022 by Simon

There are a couple of reasons I think that early voting is a bad idea. If during the Civil War when Lincoln was running for re-election there had been early voting people would have voted before the v... Read More

WWIT About the Presidential Election

Posted on October 26, 2020October 24, 2020 by Simon

The presidential election is next Tuesday November 3, 2020. Be sure to vote.Executive Summary: I predict Biden/Harris will win in a landslide. The Democrats will win the senate and the Republicans wil... Read More

Election Day Final

Posted on November 6, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

A Hohokam petroglyph site near Badger Springs AZ Politics is applied ethics No matter how the election turns out today the Hohokam will still be gone and eventually so will we. From the archeological ... Read More

Election Day Four

Posted on November 5, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

Piestewa Peak The election is tomorrow. I voted my heuristic with a caveat. The Kavanaugh hearings incensed me so much that I wasn’t able to vote for any Democrats this cycle. There was a Libe... Read More

Election Day Three

Posted on November 3, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

It is Saturday and the election is on Tuesday but somewhere between 20% and 30% of the people have already voted. Is this good for democracy? On the one hand if voting is easier and more convenient pe... Read More

Election Day Two

Posted on November 2, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud. Are they real? This is a joke! Don’t take it seriously. People on the left are convinced that the right is trying to suppress the votes of the poor and less ed... Read More

Election Day One

Posted on November 1, 2018October 31, 2018 by Simon

About a week ago I heard a talking head say something to the effect that “this is the most important election in a generation.” I counter predict. After this election nothing much will cha... Read More

Flashback about Politics

Posted on August 8, 2018July 19, 2018 by Simon

I’m often wrong and I was very wrong in August 2008 when I wrote: “We are well into the election season and I along with others was lamenting the length and cost of the process in the US. ... Read More

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Simon Burrow

Quirky thoughts from an old man.

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