Bob Dylan's 1965 Prescient Prediction of the Trump Years. [View all]

I see here today that it is Bob Dylan's birthday.

I also see a nice note over in the Science forum about Alan Turing papers now up for auction:

RWers like to spew that abortion

To which I responded:

Excellent point. They care far more for zygotes than they do for human beings. Post born they can't wait to kill...

...people, especially those who know more than they do.

...which caused me to recall, from the days when I used to play in clubs, a verse from "Desolation Row" for which I had a version:

It describes the vandals now destroying this country from the White House perfectly I think, and certainly, in another somewhat less odious (but still odious) time, the death of Alan Turing.

The White House is a heart attack machine, where ignorance and stupidity is celebrated for its own sake, where the fall of the United States is now becoming irrevocable.

The movie "Imitation Game," which is still a movie and perhaps not perfectly accurate, reflects this great tragedy quite well.

There is a great portrait of Alan Turing in the Lewis Science Library, at Princeton University, which despite being a Frank Gehry monstrosity, is one of the great places on this planet.

We have no idea what we have lost, and less about what we are losing now.