About Political Gastronomica
Political Gastronomica is a discourse on technology and online activism - how the marketplace of governing and ideas is improving with the efficiencies of the Internet.
Author Sanford Dickert, former CTO of John Kerry for President Campaign, works with political campaigns, non-profits and private companies from the Fortune 500 to startups.
Dickert leverages online community engagement techniques and technical vision for brand and message management through effective application of social media and organizational processes.
Category Archives: Personal Thoughts
Spitzer: Opinion on personal and NY impact
We each have a choice in how we live our lives – along the ranges of honor and integrity to duplicity and scandal. No one is perfect in the world, and as the technology continues to erode our privacy and what we expect will never arise, we will have to evaluate our measure of politicians in the future. Continue reading
Posted in Personal Thoughts
Tagged Eliot Spitzer, ethics in politics, honor and integrity
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Is the second canary signalling? You decide…
As someone who recently read and watched Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, looks like the second canary is signaling… Continue reading
Posted in Mitzvahs, Personal Thoughts
Tagged Al Gore, canary in the coal mine, Global Warming, greenhouse gases, Greenland
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Gore on the offensive…
Just read this excerpt from Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason”. With this passage, I know I will be supporting his ideas: Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, The Assault on Reason
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VA Shootings….a moment of silence
And a letter from the President of Cooper Union: April 16, 2007 Memorandum to The Cooper Union Community Beginning early this morning, the Virginia Tech campus experienced a deadly assault by a gunman that resulted, in the words of President … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Thoughts
Tagged Instapundit, Virginia Tech
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EPFs – and my experience in the early 90s
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I was a newly minted engineer from Purdue, seeking jobs in the engineering world. I was a CS/EE and was talking to a number of companies. One of my trips to a company was to Honeywell in Minneapolis where I was introduced to the Advanced Weapons Group. I spent the day with one of the engineers who offered me a glimpse into two new weapons they were developing for the US Government and how they needed a good controls engineer to work on them. While I forgot the first one, the second one is quite familiar… Continue reading
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Tagged EFPs, Explosively Formed Penetrators
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