Category Archives: Politics

Today’s Headlines, 8 Sept 2022

Posted on Thursday 8 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Queen and empire; Religious employers against health care; Republicans making fun of sick people; Lebanon as America’s future under Trumpers; MAGA invokes 1st century BC; Another lame right-wing movie; Why American lives are getting shorter; The indefensible claims of “2,000 … Continue reading →

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Rules, Fairness, Hypocrisy, and Both-Sides-ism

Posted on Saturday 3 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

More recent headlines.

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More about Alternate Realities

Posted on Friday 2 September 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Republicans, Democrats, and alternate realities.

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Governance v. Scripture

Posted on Thursday 18 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

John Scalzi is a popular science fiction writer (though alas one of those writers who remains most famous for their first book, in his case Old Man’s War from 2005, though I’m sure he, and critics, would say he’s written … Continue reading →

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Those Who Would Return Us to the Dark Ages

Posted on Wednesday 17 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The theme of my post two days ago — about the similarity, albeit to differing degrees, between the attack on Salman Rushdie, and the attacks on education and democracy by today’s political right in the US — is the theme … Continue reading →

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Non-representative Legislatures

Posted on Saturday 13 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Ten days ago in this post, in the aftermath of the Kansas vote supporting protections for abortion, I wondered this: So what are the justifications of Republican politicians who keep passing or trying to pass restrictions on abortion, when the … Continue reading →

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Today’s Headlines and Backlogged Links

Posted on Friday 12 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic, Tom McTague, 12 Aug 2022: What America’s Great Unwinding Would Mean for the World, subtitled, “The conundrum facing America’s allies is how to cope with a great imperial power in decline that is still a great imperial power.” … Continue reading →

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Two Essays About Current Events: by Connie Willis and Heather Cox Richardson

Posted on Thursday 11 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Connie Willis is one of the most beloved science fiction writers of the past 40 years. As a writer she’s won many awards, for works often humorous but at times tragic, at times building human stories based on the weirdness … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Some Good News, and the FBI

Posted on Tuesday 9 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Some recent news is actually quite good.

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Abortion Votes and Republicans on Parenting

Posted on Wednesday 3 August 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

When I opened Facebook this morning the first 10 items were all about the election results in Kansas (from news sources or friends citing them), in which an attempt to remove protections for abortion *failed* rather dramatically — by 60% … Continue reading →

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