Category Archives: conservatives

Personal Jesus and Other Fantasies

Posted on 2 December 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

How Russia is cracking down on the Gay Rights Movement, just as American evangelicals would like to do; A laughable debate about whether the Earth is flat or round, based on Biblical theology; A take on the economy that suggests … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Economics, Music, Psychology, The Gays | Leave a comment

Bathing, Evidence, Control, Dating, Social Security

Posted on 29 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Why daily bathing (just like trying to kill every germ in sight) may not be healthy; Items about Republican admissions they don’t have evidence for their claims; how they take credit for what they voted against; how the party of … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Culture, Evolution, Politics | Leave a comment

End of Thanksgiving Weekend

Posted on 26 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Late afternoon, Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. Just finished putting lights up on our two second floor balconies, that should come on automatically an dusk. — 5:10pm, they’ve just come on. Oops, except for one string that came on only half-way. … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Music, Personal history, Politics, Religion | Leave a comment

A Clear, Crisp Day in the Bay Area

Posted on 19 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Going through today’s links, and earlier backlogged links, and today focusing on political matters. Are there better things to do with an hour or two of my life, a couple times a week, than to pay attention to the crazies? … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Politics | Comments Off on A Clear, Crisp Day in the Bay Area

Liberals vs. Progressives; What’s the Difference?

Posted on 17 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Pamela Paul in NYT distinguishes progressive from liberals; the answer is, the former are driving cancel culture from the left; How I’ve changed my mind about threats from the right, vs. those from the left; Jerry Coyne, who follows university … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Politics, Psychology, Science | Tagged | Comments Off on Liberals vs. Progressives; What’s the Difference?

Decency, Bias, and Superstition

Posted on 16 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Over and over, Trump and his team, unable to win arguments on the facts, resort to ad hominem — character assassination; The contrast between conservative insistence on women taking a child to term, rather than abortion, with the mild inconvenience … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Psychology, The Gays | Comments Off on Decency, Bias, and Superstition

Real Conspiracy Theories and Fake Crises

Posted on 15 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Benjamin Bradford at CFI about how conspiracy theorists shrug about real conspiracy theories; Big Think on conspiracy theories about places claimed not to exist; Robert Reich on the fake crises Republicans use to distract from real problems. CFI, Benjamin Bradford, … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Epistemology, Psychology | Comments Off on Real Conspiracy Theories and Fake Crises

Witnessing History: When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them

Posted on 14 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s difficult to keep a perspective on the news, which may well be history happening in front of our eyes, or may simply consist of passing trends. There are always passing trends. In the long term, history shows that most … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservative Resistance, conservatives, Lunacy, Politics | Comments Off on Witnessing History: When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them

Disconnects about the Economy

Posted on 13 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

There have been several articles recently about how, and why, economists think the economy is doing just fine, while ordinary people (voters) don’t. Why would this be? Are these ordinary people simply poisoned by partisan propaganda? Or is it something … Continue reading →

Posted in conservatives, Economics, Politics | Comments Off on Disconnects about the Economy

The Deep State, or, Jonathan Rauch, THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE, part 3

Posted on 11 November 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve said the last two posts that I would quote the passages of Rauch’s book in which he describes what he considers to be the components of the “reality-based community.” And how it struck me that some of these components … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Notes, conservatives, Epistemology | Comments Off on The Deep State, or, Jonathan Rauch, THE CONSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE, part 3