Category Archives: Psychology

Links and Comments: January 6th; How Americans Need Each Other; How to ‘Do Your Own Research’; Enduring Conspiracy Theories

Posted on Monday 3 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Let’s do some links and comments today, then tomorrow perhaps I’ll return to posting book summaries. NYT, The Editorial Board, 1 Jan 2022: Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now This could be a reference from my 2021 in Review post. … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: A Few Recent Headlines

Posted on Thursday 25 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Investing; astrology and narcissism; fear as self-defense; insurgency in America.

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Links & Comments: How the Media Should Cover Indecent Politicians; The Streisand Effect

Posted on Monday 22 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

It’s the beginning the holiday season, which means I’ll get less done. I’m a little like Isaac Asimov, in the way that he famously preferred to stay at home (in his Manhattan highrise, with the curtains closed) to read and … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: The Middle Ground Between Conspiracy Theorists and Rationalist Control

Posted on Sunday 21 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Anti-Conspiracy Theorists aren’t always right either; headlines from The Guardian about White reasoning and how facts don’t change minds.

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Ls&Cs: Human Are Animals; The Yuck Factor

Posted on Monday 15 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve kept up with posting current links to articles and essays in recent weeks (since I’ve been posting once a day, for two months now) so well that this evening I am mining links I captured back in March and … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Infrastructure; Insurrection; Safety; Radicals; Birthdays

Posted on Wednesday 10 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

When voting for infrastructure means betraying your country; how dying from Covid is sacrifice in the war against Joe Biden; when safety measures give false confidence; how QAnon and Pakistani radicals are similar; when birthdays were not a thing.

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Ls&Cs: Imaginary Crises, Race-Baiting, Anti-Civility, CNN’s crisis reporting; and ‘When do we get to use those guns?’

Posted on Thursday 4 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

One more round of Links and Comments for today, then promise will do some different kinds of posts for a while.

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Ls&Cs: The Irrationality of Politics

Posted on Wednesday 3 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The results of yesterday’s elections demonstrate several truisms about politics. My favorite take about the current elections is this: Slate, Ben Mathis-Lilley, 3 Nov 21: American Politics Are Controlled by Voters With the Memory of a Golden Retriever

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Ls&Cs: Facebook Feeds

Posted on Monday 1 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a NYT piece from almost a year ago, which I neglected to post at the time but which has stayed in my mind sufficiently that I tracked it down to finally post and comment about now. It’s about how … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Foundation, Dune, and Long-Term Projects

Posted on Wednesday 27 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I haven’t seen the new Dune movie and am not sure I will, in part because my partner just doesn’t care about that kind of movie (and I could never do anything like going to see a movie by myself), … Continue reading →

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