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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Category Archives: Conservative Resistance
Cruelty, Nonsense, and Reality-Checks
Paul Krugman says Trump knew full well how his Great Gatsby-themed party looked just as millions of Americans were about to lose federal food assistance — the cruelty is the point; Short items about church/state separation; how “God’s authority” is … Continue reading
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Troubled Children, Cognitive Collapse, Cave Man Morality
Paul Krugman about how Trump has ceded the future to China; Tom Nichols on how the Trump administration resembles a bunch of toddlers, and what Americans who care about democracy should do. Salon’s Sophia A. McClennen on how the Trump … Continue reading
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Democratic Erosion, SNAP, and God-Sized Holes
A NYT Scale of markers of democratic erosion; Heather Cox Richardson’s even-handed assessment of the SNAP crisis; Jerry Coyne dismantles Arthur C. Brooks’ arguments for not dismissing the idea of God; (And my take on how the common conceptions of … Continue reading
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Useful Categories
Five ideas to tell when America has become a dictatorship; A Jesus and Mo cartoon that reflects my discussions of secular awe and religion; Phil Zuckerman on how social justice is secular; Short items about worries of American’s impending population … Continue reading
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Drizzly
Intro; Are religions by their nature fascist? Latest on the Republican war on science; Peanut allergies go away when infants are exposed early on; Takes on what socialism is. – – – It was drizzly all weekend. Yesterday we attended … Continue reading
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Demolition
Trump demolishes the East Wing, after promising not to; Michelle Goldberg about MAGA; Robert Reich on options to challenge the right’s “hate America” rhetoric; Short items about how Christians should be in charge of everything, how MAGA hates people from … Continue reading
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Slop
Essays about AI slop, and how this endangers objective truth; Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House, after he said he wouldn’t; Responses to Trump’s poop video; Paul Krugman on Trump’s loss of touch with reality; … Continue reading
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The Need for Community
An essay about how humans raised children in villages, throughout most of history; Another essay about how Gen Z-ers are drawn to conservative Christianity, not because it’s in any way true, but because of that same need for community; Heather … Continue reading
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How All This Is Reflected in Science Fiction
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
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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