Category Archives: Politics

Nothing mattered, in the end

Posted on Sunday 9 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

NY Times’ timeline of Trump 2.0; NRA graphic from Facebook; A Canadian perspective on Trump; DEI graphic from Facebook; How Trump (and Musk) target agencies investigating *them*; The cost of scrapping the social cost of carbon; David French on the … Continue reading →

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Flooding the Zone with Shock and Awe

Posted on Saturday 8 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How to deal with it; I’m trying to put things into a broader perspective of their deep motivations, which are always about basic, tribalist, human nature; Trump is taking over Kennedy Center because he objects to drag; Plastic straws, racist … Continue reading →

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DEI and NASA

Posted on Friday 7 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

David Wallace-Wells on the sabotage of the American government; Paul Krugman on “autogolpe” and the Musk/Trump chaos; Heather Cox Richardson on how Republicans have, ever since Reagan, convinced voters that there’s an enemy “deep state” out to destroy their country; … Continue reading →

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A Nation vs. a Collection of States

Posted on Thursday 6 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Quite a number of interesting items stacked up. Let’s just start working them. How sending education “back to the states” is problematical for the same reason you don’t run a nation like a business; How Trump creates problems he then … Continue reading →

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Living in History

Posted on Tuesday 4 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Still rainy, still with cold, sleeping half the day it seems, reading a bit. I roused myself about two hours ago and here’s what I came up with. Heather Cox Richardson on the obvious: that Republicans are letting an un-elected … Continue reading →

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Easier to Destroy than to Build

Posted on Monday 3 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Or: The Anti-America Americans. Latest about the coup: Today Trump has suspended the tariffs he’d said would go into effect *today* on Mexico and Canada. Familiar pattern? He’s flailing. Musk and his gang of college kids have compromised the financial … Continue reading →

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People Are Saying… It’s a Coup

Posted on Sunday 2 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Another sleepy day with a cold, and it’s gloomy and drizzly outside today too. The latest on what’s going on, via Connie Willis and Heather Cox Richardson; LA Times on Trump’s idiotic order to empty two California reservoirs; An example … Continue reading →

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What They’re Trying to Wipe Out

Posted on Saturday 1 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Under the weather the past few days, with an ordinary cold, mostly a scratchy-throat driven cough. Today: light reading, and naps. At an FBI facility, someone is literally painting over a wall of value words, like “fairness,” “diversity,” “leadership,” and … Continue reading →

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The Corrosion of America

Posted on Friday 31 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump 2.0 so far; Comments from Willis, Richardson, and Reich; Krugman on tariffs; Trump’s mediocre cabinet appointments; Lydia Polgreen on our age of mass migration, how countries like the US actually need immigrants, and how opponents of migration can only … Continue reading →

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The Usual Villains

Posted on Thursday 30 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

A passenger plane and a military helicopter collide over the Potomac, killing 67, and who does Trump blame? Trump’s vile plane crash press conference; David A. Graham on how Trump is just watching, not taking charge; Allan Pettersson’s Symphony #8. … Continue reading →

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