Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

Moral Collapse, or Moral Immaturity?

Posted on Friday 17 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Has MAGA’s morality collapsed, or has it always been this way — immature? With references to that hierarchy of morality, and Peter Singer’s expanding circle of morality; Karoline Leavitt says Democrats are made up of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and … Continue reading →

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Some People Hate

Posted on Thursday 16 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Young Republicans in those chats were not kids; Republicans excuse their vile comments while demonizing anyone who has said anything less than adulatory about Charlie Kirk — whose opinions were equally vile; Short items about demons, civil rights, mammals, … Continue reading →

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Art and Conservatives

Posted on Wednesday 15 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How a Christian Right talk show failed, and how MAGA’s fake Super Bowl halftime show is “pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture”; Thoughts about how conservatives have no sense of humor, and how conservatives dominate talk radio; Personal thoughts about resistance … Continue reading →

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And How Science Fiction Is Both a Symptom and a Solution

Posted on Monday 13 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Further thoughts on how science fiction informs current social ills; Republican doublethink about “No Kings” rallies; Columbus Day, and Trump’s veneration of Columbus vs the realities of history; Heather Cox Richardson’s perspective on Columbus, and the origin of Columbus Day. … Continue reading →

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How All This Is Reflected in Science Fiction

Posted on Sunday 12 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The three themes of my essay; Items about the Pope, Trump firing black officials, MAGA’s presumption of carrying out the “Lord’s work,” how the Trump administration has quietly reinstated many of the CDC staffers it recently fire, how Trump thinks … Continue reading →

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And How This Is All About Reality, and the Future of Humanity

Posted on Saturday 11 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Quotes from E.O. Wilson and Brian Cox; Comments about existential threats, base human nature, MAGA, and woke; More examples, like yesterday’s; A report from Nicholas Kristof, who lives in Portland; How Trump isn’t responding to crises, he’s constructing them; Final … Continue reading →

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How This Is All About Science Fiction

Posted on Friday 10 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

This blog isn’t about conservatives and the religious; it’s about people believing things that aren’t true, about tribalism and hypocrisy, and how human nature reduces everything into binaries. With numerous examples; And about how Trump didn’t win the Nobel Peace … Continue reading →

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Stages of Wisdom

Posted on Thursday 9 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s something I don’t explicitly acknowledge very often, though I think I’ve mentioned it before. There is a substantial portion of humanity made up of clear-thinking people, people who understand at an early age why community and religious myths exist, … Continue reading →

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Comments from Facebook; What the Conversion Therapy Case is About

Posted on Thursday 9 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Recalling the Nazi rallies in left-wing areas of Germany; How the Nazis based their policies on segregated America; How right-wingers admit “it’s harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth”; Conservative justices imply queer … Continue reading →

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How Tribal Loyalty Overrides Evidence of Incompetence

Posted on Tuesday 7 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA will never accept “I told you so”: Robert Reich on why Trump keeps dismantling agencies; Short items about overthrowing the government, primitive morality, yet another prediction of the rapture, Biblical morality to justify the killing of black men, … Continue reading →

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