Category Archives: Lunacy

The Trump Administration Declines All Knowledge

Posted on Saturday 14 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Suitable for this administration, and the MAGA crowd. (And the flat-earth crowd.) The Atlantic, Alexandra Petri, 14 Feb 2026: Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night, subtitled “After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, … Continue reading →

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Renouncing Reality, Yet Again, to Make Money

Posted on Thursday 12 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The Trump administration denies climate change, in favor of big business; Trump is best on cashing in; Paul Krugman explains why deportation don’t create jobs and will lead to more deaths of native-born Americans; Brief items about conservatives and small … Continue reading →

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Current Events; Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

Posted on Monday 2 February 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

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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“I Love the Poorly Educated”

Posted on Friday 30 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Now the administration is arresting journalists for covering news it doesn’t like; A right-wing response, anxious for public executions; Every accusation is a confession; How the withdrawn Philip Glass symphony is in a way about Trump; How Trump is making … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Resistance to Changing One’s Mind

Posted on Tuesday 27 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Why can conservatives not admit they might have been wrong? Trump never admits to being wrong; he never apologizes; And yet the administration is softening its accusations against the people killed by ICE in Minneapolis; Trump contradicts the 2nd amendment; … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Lunacy and Conservative Regression

Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The Greenland obsession is a new level of madness for Trump; Time to impeach? Trump’s embarrassing Davos speech; MAGA Jesus is not the real Jesus, but evangelicals will never break with Trump; Tony Perkins says ICE protestors are God-haters; The … Continue reading →

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The Latest About Mad King Donald

Posted on Monday 19 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump’s letter to Norway, about threatening a hostile takeover of Greenland because he didn’t win a Nobel Prize, written as if by a petulant 12-year-old child; With big picture comments by Tom Nichols; While Trump voters think he’s doing a … Continue reading →

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Friday the 16th

Posted on Friday 16 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Candace Owens thinks Charlie Kirk was a time traveler, or Charlie Kirk thought that, or both; Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs doesn’t want any contact with Democrats; How the world is adjusting to an unreliable United States; A reporter who … Continue reading →

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Daily Outrages. Tyrant.

Posted on Thursday 15 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

It is too tiring to keep up on the daily outrages. I have things to do. But we can’t become complacent. So headlines today, with minimal comment. Items about gaslighting, Bari Weiss, Trump not as fascist but as tyrant, winking … Continue reading →

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Steady Encroachment

Posted on Tuesday 23 December 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Quick takes today. Robert Reich, 22 Dec 2025: Farewell to “60 Minutes”, subtitled “It just went the way of the Washington Post’s editorial page” Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant. David … Continue reading →

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