Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In an earlier life, Burdett was a statistical quality control engineer for Western Electric (Ma Bell’s manufacturing unit), Lucent Technologies, and Avaya. This, in part, explains his strange writing style (e.g., all those tables and section headings).
A more complete biography can be found in "BS2: An Autobiography."
Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In this book “A Catholic” provides some tips for how you can pray Scripture. The first three chapters define and describe: “A Catholic,” prayer types, and Scripture (from a Catholic perspective). Chapter 4 provides the promised “Prayer Writing Techniques” noted in the books subtitle. The next four chapters provide some examples of...
Building upon a thesis proposed by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, this book contains a history play which dramatizes how Henry Goodyer, Thomas Burdett, and Raphael Holinshed, via a literary salon called the “Polesworth Circle,” educated, trained, and supported two of England’s most notable poets and playwrights, Michael Drayton...
Shortly after December 7, 1941, the Genda, Oshima and Shiroyama families were uprooted from their Terminal Island, California homes and interred at Manzanar. This book provides some details on the lives of these three families before, during and after their incarceration. It also examines the U.S. Governments conduct during the war, life on...
This is the third in a series of three posts on Nebraska government and politics. The first post (June 21, 2026) concerned Nebraska’s unicameral legislature. The second post concerned a Nebraska political phenomenon known as the “blue dot.” This post will concern how the blue dot impacted the May 12, 2026, primary election in Nebraska.
My Favorite Primary Ad
The political ad that ultimately prompted this post caught my attention when I pulled it out of my mailbox. I DID see a clear difference...
Nebraska’s “blue dot” has received a lot of attention during recent presidential elections – more than you might expect for one lousy vote. Let’s start with some basics.
The Electoral College
Per the constitution, the electoral college assembles every four years to elect the president of the United States – to translate the popular vote in each state into that state’s vote – and then to accumulate those state votes to pick the president of the union. Each state is given two votes (one per...
Politically speaking, we are between seasons in Nebraska. The May 10th primary election has been held and the November general election is several months away. So, I thought I would spend a little time now writing about Nebraska government and politics. This is the first of three planned posts on these topics.
Nebraska is traditionally a Republican state. The current governor (Jim Pillen), two senators (Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer), and three congressmen (Mike Flood, Don Bacon, and Adam...
