Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Ls&Cs: Recognizing Asians; War on Democracy; Global Government

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Conservative outrage about recognizing Asians; the Republican war on democracy; the faded dream of a global government to solve worldwide problems.

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L&Cs: David Brooks on the American Right

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Just one long piece in this post.

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Ls&Cs: Some Things Never Change; Some That Do Go Unremembered

Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

How racism persists while changing its expression; how cherry-picking the Bible has been done for centuries; and how the seven-day week has only recently become the worldwide standard.

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Ls&Cs: Hillary; Money; Rural America; the Economy; Populism

Posted on Monday 8 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Today I had a dentist appointment; I compiled Weekly Bestsellers for Locus Online; I updated sfadb.com with the World Fantasy Award winners. After lunch: my thrice-weekly cardiac therapy. Then: read another chapter of Pinker; and now compiling links collected this … Continue reading →

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Lc&Cs: The Sad State of Education in America

Posted on Sunday 31 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe.” —H.G. Wells

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Ls&Cs: Stuff, Terms, Panics, Rules

Posted on Saturday 30 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Maybe we should all just buy less stuff. How citizenship has given way to consumerism. Why partisans deliberately confuse terms like expenses and investments. And how some rewrite history in support of ideological narratives.

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Ls&Cs: Cancel Culture; Leaf Blowers; a Smaller Population

Posted on Friday 29 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s thought: It occurs to me that “cancel culture” exists on both the left and right. The left is more apt to target individuals (Jerry Coyne responds to an attempt by the Imperial College London to rename anything named after … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Latest on Climate Change

Posted on Sunday 24 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Now 99% agree.

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Ls&Cs: Problem-Solving, Ethics, Out-Group Prejudice, and Padding Bestseller Lists

Posted on Monday 11 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Several links that I collected on April 20th, the day I went to the hospital for what led to my heart transplant.

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Ls&Cs: Scopes Coal Social Media Fasting and Prayer

Posted on Monday 4 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Southern resistance to vaccines, and the Southern inferiority complex (entailing the Scopes trial); Republican commitment to fossil fuels despite climate change; false claims via social media; fasting and prayer.

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