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: conservatives
Are There Superior Civilizations?
There are divergent takes on a speech given by Marco Rubio in Europe the other day. NY Times, opinion by Bret Stephens, 17 Feb 2026: Western Civ Can Save Us — Again But the title in print, in this morning’s … Continue reading
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How Crises Disappear
How Trump has quietly withdrawn National Guard troops from various cities; Adam-Troy Castro predicts that the ballroom, the Kennedy Center overhaul, and the arch, will never happen; John Pavlovitz on how Bad Bunny reminds MAGA that they’re losing; Amanda Marcotte … Continue reading
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How the War on Woke Reflects the Basics of Human Nature
Just one piece today, a longish piece I’m going to go through fairly carefully, since it puts current issues about MAGA and conservative regression into a broad context, broader I’d say than the 400 years stated in the title. Salon, … Continue reading
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The Core Motivation of Trump, and MAGA
More about the Obama video: how Trump has Obama Derangement Syndrome; how what motivates Trump, and MAGA, is racism; So why does Trump think he’s going to heaven? Short takes on ignoring the second amendment, MAGA cultists tricking voters, taking … Continue reading
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A New Low
Trump posts a racist video about the Obamas; Reactions from John Pavlovitz, Robert Reich, Paul Krugman. – – – Trump has hit a new low. His fans don’t mind, which says a lot. About him, and about them. (Of course … Continue reading
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Christian Hypocrisy: The Beatitudes, vs. the Reality in Minneapolis
Bulk sales for the Melania movie; an example of natural selection among aggressive religions; another prophecy that will not come true; The Onion suggests conservatives might boycott all forms of entertainment, since they’re all liberally biased (because that’s how art … Continue reading
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Current Events; Nihilism and the Meaning of Life
Pete Hegseth delights in violence; How Scott Adams was mislead by innumeracy into conspiracy theories; How conservatives resent a politician telling them to act more like Jesus; Examples of lunacy from JMG; Nihilism and the meaning of life. – – … Continue reading
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“Let the Country’s Weak and Vulnerable Suffer and Die.”
David Wallace-Wells on the real reason MAGA hates vaccines; How ICE is about retribution against those who didn’t vote for Trump; How the title of a recent book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” applies to the … Continue reading
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The Latest ICE Killing
Captured on cellphone video, a man on the ground shot in the back ten times, like an execution; his crime: helping a woman who’d been pushed down by ICE thugs; Takes by Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, John … Continue reading
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Disintegration
Another killing by ICE in Minneapolis; Trump cedes leadership of the global economy to China; Now they want to make the polio vaccine optional; Trump’s EPA now places the value of a human life at zero dollars; Trump’s National Park … Continue reading
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