Author Archives: nick

I’ve been posting to my blog at just-opinions.com for 14 years. It is a record of what I have been thinking about for a decade and a half. The traffic has been modest, to say the most. There has been … Continue reading →

I have experienced living on both sides of the political divide. I was a member of SDS and an acid head hippie communard back in the day. Now I am a conservative, Christian, Republican who loves President Trump. You would … Continue reading →

Among the many experiments that the Farm conducted, was the experiment to see if it was possible to form tribal connections among complete strangers that were as strong as blood relations. I believe the experiment was at least somewhat successful, … Continue reading →

In 1968 when I was living with my wife and two children in a top story 7 room Victorian flat in the Haight for $164 dollars a month, and working downtown on Montgomery Street for a computer consulting company, It … Continue reading →

I watched President Trump’s speech in Fargo tonight. No network carried it except for Fox. The day after the travel ban was upheld and Justice Kennedy resigned, the situation on the border is in flux, primaries happened last night, and … Continue reading →

I was reminded today of the time when I first met and fell in love with the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, which is written in C and is an extension of the C philosophy. Make no … Continue reading →

Among the many precincts of our reality that have been exposed and brought to light by Donald Trump’s ascension is the degree to which human beings believe all kinds of crazy shit. Trump has turned at least 30% of Americans … Continue reading →

When Obama got elected I didn’t like it. I didn’t vote for him. But I had some hope. He was young, smart, cool. Maybe he would have some good ideas. How bad could it be? It was a catastrophe. I … Continue reading →

I used to not like the way political reporting and discourse was constrained within what was at the time a very narrow Overton window. Now I’m not so sure that the sizable expansion of those limits that has occurred, especially … Continue reading →

Engraved on my tombstone, I want my epitaph to be: “We’ll See What Happens”