Mark R. Kelly
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- Ls&Cs: Engagement with the Universe
- Ls&Cs: Balancing the Left and Right
- Ls&Cs: Misleading Maps
- John Allen Paulos, INNUMERACY: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (1988)
- L&Q&Cs: Neal Stephenson on What Might Save Us
- E.O. Wilson: THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH (2012)
- L&Qs&Cs: Wearing Us Down
- E.O. Wilson, GENESIS: THE DEEP ORIGIN OF SOCIETIES (2019)
- E.O. Wilson: THE ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY (2017)
- L&C: Rationality in Language
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Category Archives: Conservative Resistance
L&Qs&Cs: Wearing Us Down
We are weary of this, as I alluded a few posts ago, but that’s what they count on, I think, that the events of the past year, or past five years, will become the new normal. (I refuse to link … Continue reading
Ls&Cs: Never Too Many Guns; Conservatives Against Modern Medicine
NYT, Farhad Manjoo, 13 Jan 2022: We Must Stop Showering the Military With Money
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Culture
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Graduation
Today I finished, or ‘graduated,’ my cardiac therapy program. It went for 36 sessions (the most that insurance covers, apparently), and began the Wednesday after Labor Day, but what with the facility’s shutdown for a month due to plumbing issues, … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Social Progress
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Links and Comments: January 6th
I’ll post just the three or four items that struck me the most today, the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrectionist attack by Trump supporters on the Capitol of the United States.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Politics, Religion
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Links and Comments: Gullibility and the Decline of the US
First a bit of housekeeping. This blog has attracted no comments at all in the past two months! No real ones (which come in once a month or so) and no spam ones (which used to come in a few … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Politics
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Links & Comments: Narrative Shortcuts, Fantasy Worlds, Arabic Numerals
Sunny but chilly today; we’ve had rain for much of the past two weeks, and now we’re in for a week or so of sun. We did a 34-minute walk, though Robinson Drive and around on Skyline and back to … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Economics, Movies, Narrative
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Christmas Week Rain; Insecurities and Lack of Imagination
Finished my Christmas shopping today — I had to be done today — though one or two ordered items won’t be here until next week. It rained fairly heavily last night and the residue set in today; supposedly not raining, … Continue reading
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Ls&Cs: War on Christmas; Book Hoarders
The earliest people who objected to Christmas were… the Puritans. And a piece about famous people who own lots of books.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Narrative
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Links & Comments & Thoughts for the Day & Endpiece: 3 Dec 21
Thought for the day: All the Christmas carols, all the movies about Santa, and so on, are *fan fiction*. Another thought for the day: I haven’t seen anyone point out that the reason Covid variants keep appearing, and then spreading … Continue reading
Posted in Book Notes, Conservative Resistance, science fiction
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Ls&Cs: Theocrats, School Boards, Libraries, Shocked Parents; The Sound of Music
How shocked parents are fighting back against school boards and public libraries; how other parents respond; how and when abortion became so important to the Christian right; and about the usual Republican gerrymandering. With an endpiece about The Sound of … Continue reading →