Category Archives: Lunacy

Is Religion Simply a Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game?

Posted on Tuesday 24 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Since it’s obviously not about objective reality. Lance Wallnau says Trump’s strike on Iran is setting the stage for the Antichrist; With thoughts about what humanity is “for”; Trump confuses supercells with sleeper cells; Vox on how Trump’s actions aren’t … Continue reading →

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Are Trump and MAGA intending to ethnically cleanse Democrats? Signs Point That Way

Posted on Monday 16 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman and Guardian on how the parade was a flop, while No Kings Day was a hit; Photos from Trump’s military parade; Motivated reasoning and conspiracy theories about the Minnesota shootings, even though the facts are apparent enough (and … Continue reading →

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Say Black Is White, and Some Will Believe You

Posted on Sunday 15 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The ‘No Kings’ demonstrations yesterday were a huge success, the parade in Washington DC less so; How the White House lies about those demonstrations; How MAGA and Musk are somehow blaming the *left* for the shootings of Democratic lawmakers in … Continue reading →

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Knowing vs. Believing

Posted on Tuesday 10 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

RFK “retires” his vaccine advisory committee (because he knows better); Robert Reich on how the MAGA Inquisition will destroy American science, and Reich tries to understand why; Robert Reich on Trump’s war against California, and the central struggle of civilization; … Continue reading →

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Clooney’s Murrow; Trump Calls Out the National Guard

Posted on Sunday 8 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck; Trump calls out the National Guard (what’s next? Martial Law?); Louisiana bans chemtrails; Trump’s big bill prioritizes the religious right (of course) – – – First of all. We watched the live stream of George … Continue reading →

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Meltdown; Reign of Errors; People Trump doesn’t want to exist; Harari on humans in 1000 years

Posted on Friday 6 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Details of the Trump/Musk meltdown; The Trump administration’s reign of errors; Such as DOGE firing people and quickly hiring them back; The people Trump doesn’t want to exist; Yuval Noah Harari on how humans won’t exist in 1000 years, perhaps … Continue reading →

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They Said It Wouldn’t Last, and It Hasn’t

Posted on Thursday 5 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Trump/Musk bromance implodes; Hannity lies about the impact of the “big beautiful bill”; Republicans try to discredit experts warning about the cost of tax cuts; David French on Joni Ernst, and how Christianity has become a vertical, not horizontal, … Continue reading →

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Harvey Milk, DEI, Lysenko, Jesus

Posted on Wednesday 4 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Pete Hegseth orders removal of Harvey Milk’s name from an oil tanker as part of reestablishing “the warrior culture”; Trump fires head of the National Portrait Gallery, because ridding the government of DEI is about “the mere presence of nonwhites … Continue reading →

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Fareed Zakaria, Peter Wehner, Brian Tyler Cohen, and Anton Bruckner

Posted on Saturday 31 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Fareed Zakaria on Trump vs. Harvard; Peter Wehner on how Republican principles gave way to Trump; And so now there is justice for Trump supporters, and justice for others; “Happy Memorial Day” Brian Tyler Cohen about Trump’s confusion about “asylum”; … Continue reading →

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Self-destruction, Mafia Politics, TACO, What Aligns the Right, Bread and Circuses

Posted on Wednesday 28 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman on the economic damage of America’s withdrawal from the world; You can get away with anything if you donate enough to Trump; TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out; Zack Beauchamp on how the right isn’t driven by materialism, but … Continue reading →

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