Category Archives: Politics

Links and Comments: Things Change, 1

Posted on Thursday 11 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Will MAGA panic subside with an old white man back in the presidency? How American political parties have disintegrated in the past, and the Republican party may now be doing. How Britain has become the dumbest society in the world, … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: Alternate Realities

Posted on Tuesday 9 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Marjorie Taylor Greene, evangelical minds, selective science, denying the truth.

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Link and Quotes: Harari on the Pandemic

Posted on Monday 8 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Financial Times: Yuval Noah Harari on Lessons from a year of Covid, Feb 25th. How can we summarise the Covid year from a broad historical perspective? Many people believe that the terrible toll coronavirus has taken demonstrates humanity’s helplessness in … Continue reading →

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Link and Comments: How to Change the Minds of People Who Are Wrong

Posted on Friday 5 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, 3 March, Nicholas Kistoff: How to Reach People Who Are Wrong, subtitled, In the post-Trump era, research suggests the best ways to win people over. A fine essay, that keys off Adam Grant’s new book THINK AGAIN, which I … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: 2 March 2021

Posted on Tuesday 2 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Too many choices; Republican deregulation; Free-market consequences in Texas; Conspiracy theory driven political parties.

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Links and Comments: Psychology; Texas; QAnon; Lying

Posted on Saturday 27 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The psychology of Capitol rioters; Texas and Republicans; Climate change migration; QAnon as religion; The right to lie on the internet; The Big Lie and voter suppression.

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Link and Comments: From McCarthyism to the Assault on the Capitol, via 1951 SF movies

Posted on Saturday 27 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate: What UFOs and Joe McCarthy Have to Do With the Assault on the Capitol. Who knew?

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Links and Comments 19 Feb 2021

Posted on Friday 19 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Voter suppression; extremist behavior; “people are asking”; lack of predators; just world theory; covid revisionism; QAnon and Book of Revelations; radical women politicians; lousy tippers.

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Links and Comments: Reality as a Common Ground

Posted on Friday 19 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

“Common ground,” false balance, reality and science, coronavirus evolution, Heinlein on facts, Tucker C still spreading alarmist lies.

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Links and Comments: RL, as despicable as DJT

Posted on Thursday 18 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Vox: Rush Limbaugh’s toxic legacy, subtitled “Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70. The Republican Party he poisoned is very much alive.”

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