Category Archives: Politics

The Real Americans?

Posted on Thursday 11 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

We live in a bizarre world in which many, perhaps most, Americans deify people who are against basic American values. (Because what really drives conservatives is not the Constitution, but the OT.) So many news posts and Facebook posts about … Continue reading →

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Charlie Kirk, and the Simplex Republican Mindset

Posted on Wednesday 10 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The assassination of Charlie Kirk, and reflecting on past political assassinations; Despite RFK Jr., there is no single cause to autism; Braeden Sorbo as another right-wing Republican, like Charlie Kirk, who thinks women shouldn’t have the right to vote; Paul … Continue reading →

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How About a Nobel Prize for Belligerence?

Posted on Sunday 7 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

More about Trump’s actions vs his aspirations. You’d think Trump were running to win a Nobel Prize not for peace, but for belligerence. NY Times, David French, 7 Sept 2025: It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War … Continue reading →

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Simple Conservative Answers to Complex Problems

Posted on Saturday 6 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

RFK Jr blames autism on Tylenol; Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize but at every turn advocates war; Robert Reich on Trump and the art of extortion; They’re redacting the Epstein Files of Republicans only, is the rumor; Philip Glass: … Continue reading →

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And the Moon Rose Over an Open Field

Posted on Friday 5 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman, with graphs, wonders why the right rejects progress; Robert Reich on why we don’t trust Donald Trump — because he disregards the truth; Hemant Mehta on how the “nones” aren’t exactly “godless”; How Trump is a Russian asset; … Continue reading →

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How history, and current events, become approved stories

Posted on Wednesday 3 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Humans live by stories: comparing the story of Jesus to the story of the stolen 2020 election; Short items about Cracker Barrel; RFK Jr the vax quack; how women are not people; erasing the existence of gay people from public … Continue reading →

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Are There Any “Good Republicans” Left?

Posted on Tuesday 2 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Why there seem to be no good Republican politicians; How happy Republicans are to cut benefits to the poor; How Texas is pushing Christianity on public schools; Scientists denounce the administration’s climate report, full of errors and cherry-picked data, that … Continue reading →

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The Disappearance of Linus

Posted on Wednesday 27 August 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Distracted the past couple days by the disappearance of Linus. I mentioned this on Facebook last night. Maybe he’ll come back. Click for much larger image. I posted this on Facebook, yesterday the 26th. Our beloved Linus, who appeared exactly … Continue reading →

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Conservative Motivations and Magical Thinking

Posted on Monday 25 August 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Recalling how conservative motivations echo Hutson’s 7 laws of magical thinking; Examples of banning flag burning, removing the rainbow crosswalk in Orland, and French Gallic culture; Hemant Mehta examines why the Jehovah’s Witnesses have relaxed their prohibition against higher education; … Continue reading →

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Frightened Conservatives’ Paranoid Fantasies

Posted on Sunday 24 August 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Tribal thinking: Jan 6 rioters: good, pardoned; prosecutors following law and order: bad, fired; Troops for Chicago, New York, Baltimore? It’s the revolt of the rubes; With a US map showing the concentrations of blue and red; How Gavin Newsom … Continue reading →

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