Mark R. Kelly
» Founder in 1997 and site-runner for 20 years of Locus Online (Hugo Award winner in 2002). Founder in 2012 and still site-runner of sfadb.com (Science Fiction Awards Database). Retired in 2012 after 30 years as a software engineer for a certain rocket engine factory.
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Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly
Gullicism and Literacy
Adam Serwer on our “gullible, cynical” America, a condition he dubs “gullicism”; And how this is an absence of “literacy” about how the world actually works; Why everyone thinking “God is on our side” is a problem; John Pavlovitz answers … Continue reading
Leaving the US, Shalom, Worrying the Mind-Body Problem, the Latest Drake Equation analysis
About Trump’s misguided “Christian” war, as more and more people are literally leaving the US; Peter Wehner on a word for our trouble times: shalom; Alan Lightman wonders, rhetorically, if our minds transcend the corporeal form (an issue long-since settled); … Continue reading
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Morality, War, Science, Persecution
Robert Reich on the moral basis of civilization, and how Trump is destroying it; And Reich on how Trump is paying for the war, and giving the rich a huge tax cut; More about the undermining of America’s scientific expertise; … Continue reading
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Everything Will Be Better in Two Weeks
Ten rationales for Trump’s war on Iran; While some insist it’s not a “war”; Promoting the war with movie clips and video games; Cuba is next, they’re now saying, as predicted; Who is Hegseth to declare the US as a … Continue reading
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Heated Rivalry, Autism, and Conceptual Breakthrough
I’ve only alluded to this show before — note the photo at the top of my January 10th post — but perhaps I have some things to say about the TV series “Heated Rivalry.” On the occasion of this longish … Continue reading
You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time
Trump can’t stop telling on himself; Christian media sees the Iran war as signalling the second coming, or the End Times; And some of them want mass deportation of American Muslims; How ICE ‘loses’ property yet finds it when challenged; … Continue reading
Fractured Reality
How an air campaign alone has never resulted in regime change; Robert Reich: Trump doesn’t have a clue; John Pavlovitz: He’s not worth this; Heather Cox Richardson: Trump is workshopping reasons for his war with journalists; JD Vance says the … Continue reading
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Johan Norberg, PROGRESS
Subtitled: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future (UK: Oneworld, Oct 2016, 246pp, including 28pp notes, acknowledgements, and index) Rather as I did with Rutger Bregman a few days, here’s an author who has a new book out recently, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Notes, Human Nature, Human Progress, progress
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Our New War, and Perceptions of Change
BBC on how Trump has no plan; Mark Joseph Stern on how Trump’s war is an impeachable offense; Evangelicals see the return of Jesus everywhere, and now in the attack on Iran; Cory Doctorow on how norms change, all keyed … Continue reading
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The Demise of Mass Market Paperbacks
Trends in publishing can take place over decades, so they won’t be noticed by most people unless they’ve been buying (or borrowing) books for decades. Here’s a trend I’ve noticed for a while, which is now being noticed by the … Continue reading
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