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: Politics
Is Islam the Best Alternative to Modernity?
What Trump’s latest attempted assassin reveals about modern American life; How right-wing influencers are now praising Islam, as an alternative to liberal modernity; – – – Trying to get a handle on the latest would-be presidential assassin. Slate, Luke Winkie, … Continue reading
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The Law vs. Tribal Priorities
The Supremes eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, and the partisan flexibility of the law; King Charles visits while Trump claims America is not an idea but an inherited Anglo-Saxon culture; Heather Cox Richardson on the same point; Brief items about … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, conservatives, Lunacy, Politics, Tribalism
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Twilight of the Gods?
Pondering how to live in a era without religious assumptions; A related theme in Arthur C. Clarke’s The Songs of Distant Earth; Timothy Snyder on superpower suicide; distrust of the current administration; confused thoughts about racism from the right; And … Continue reading
Posted in Arthur C. Clarke, Culture, Music, Politics, Religion
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An Assortment of Current Events
Trying to catch up on numerous items from recent days, briefly. MAGA and confederates • Firing the National Science Board • A Texas court defies the Supremes about posting the ten commandments • America’s moral code • The new Navy … Continue reading
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Dismantling Modern Civilization in Favor of Intuitive Superstitions and Religious Verities
Those looking to ancient Greece to justify their current warmongering are getting their history wrong; Parody and reality about Hegseth relaxing flu vaccine requirements for the military; The CDC is suppressing a report on the efficacy of the Covid vaccines; … Continue reading
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Myths That Endure, and Conservatives
Who are these young Republicans who find MAGA insufficiently radical? Myths that endure: utopia, invisibility, magic, the immortal soul; Trump is going to read the Bible, out loud?? How Pro-Trump avatars are infecting social media; The evidence for the Trump’s … Continue reading
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The Origins of Conservative Values
MAGA wants more teen births (!), with reflection on why most human societies postpone children until adulthood; How Red State restrictions against abortion only stopped the lifesaving ones; Two items about Pete Hegseth and his Christian Nationalist leader, and guns. … Continue reading
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Christian Nationalist Theologians, and Pulp Fiction
Hegseth quotes Pulp Fiction; Vance and others MAGAsplain doctrine to the Pope; Christian nationalists prefer nationalism over Christianity; Homan and Vance tell the Pope to stay in his lane, as if war has nothing to do with morality; Christian media … Continue reading
Our Demented Administration
A majority of Americans favor impeachment; Now the Trump administration is threatening the Vatican; Yet more evidence that they’re white supremacists; Revisiting the question if Trump is suffering dementia; Long piece about how Trump is stuck in the era of … Continue reading
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Another Nothing-burger Trump Deal
Trump’s ‘deal’ with Iran seems to have accomplished none of his objectives, and is worse than the Obama deal that Trump cancelled; Comments from Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Media Matters; Which spills over in the contrast between Artemis II and … Continue reading
