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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- Steven Pinker, ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, post 3
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- Steven Pinker: ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, post 2
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Category Archives: Conservative Resistance
Link and Comments: Covid skeptics and critical thinking
Slate, 11 March, Rebecca Onion: COVID Skeptics Don’t Just Need More Critical Thinking, subtitled, Without a shared approach to scientific expertise, “trusting the data” won’t lead us to the same conclusions. This entails the question, What is science? Not everyone … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: Things Change, 1
Will MAGA panic subside with an old white man back in the presidency? How American political parties have disintegrated in the past, and the Republican party may now be doing. How Britain has become the dumbest society in the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Culture, Politics
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Link and Comments: From McCarthyism to the Assault on the Capitol, via 1951 SF movies
Slate: What UFOs and Joe McCarthy Have to Do With the Assault on the Capitol. Who knew?
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Movies, Politics, Skiffy Flix
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Links and Comments: It Could Have Been Worse; It Might Get Worse; Lessons
I don’t pretend to have any special insight into current events, but for the sake of perspective, of checking back from the future to see where we were at on this day, I will briefly summarize. (Similarly, it would be … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: How People Think; the Election and the Pandemic
It’s been a few days since last bunch of links and comments, and I’ve collected several since then that perhaps can be fit together into some kind of overe-arching theme. It’s about how different people think differently. I should say … Continue reading
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This Week’s Facebook Memes
Quoted without comment. Opinions, not claims of fact; From Gloria Steinem: How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion — mandatory 48-hour waiting period, parental permission, … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: Bubbles and B.S.
Trump’s performance at the second vice-presidential debate indicated to numerous people that all he knows about the world are conspiracy-mongering talking points from Fox News and other right wing sites. In some cases all you have to do is read … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: Against Trump; Roe v. Wade and Personal Choices; Scientists and Stories
Sunday’s NYT Opinion section — typically 10 or 12 pages — was devoted entirely to spelling out (yet again!) why Trump is such an awful president: End Our National Crisis, subtitled “The Case Against Donald Trump.” One section of which … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: Sides of History; Myths and Lies; Voting Inequities
Washington Post: Trump brought data from the Fox News universe to a debate centered in reality How Trump, and Fox News (in particular Laura Ingraham), lie with statistics, as the article explains in great detail. It’s all spin, aimed at … Continue reading
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Links and Comments: Abortion, and Mayor Pete
Here’s a transcript of a portion of an interview with Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who ran for the Democratic nomination for president earlier this year. This transcript has been floating around for months, and when … Continue reading
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