LQCs: Religious Blame and Feral Pigs

Posted on Wednesday 1 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Los Angeles Times, LZ Granderson, 1 Jun 2022: Republicans use ‘God’ to turn tragedies into talking points

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LQCs: Minority Rule

Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Plus: Blame everything (but guns) and see what sticks; How do Republican enablers sleep at night?; Are there any rational Republicans?

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LQCs: Memorial Day 2022

Posted on Monday 30 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Who needs prayers? What is political? Plus Fb comment, quote, meme.

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LQCs: Matches for Children

Posted on Sunday 29 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Michelle Goldberg, 27 May 2022: America May Be Broken Beyond Repair

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I imagine there’s an alternate Earth where matches are easily available to children, since children find playing with them so much fun. Sure, an occasional house burns down, even a school, but the pro-match advocates propose to simply rebuild all the houses, and schools, so that they’re fireproof! But never, never, think of taking the matches away from children. That would limit their freedom!

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Cooper the Bernedoodle

Posted on Saturday 28 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

This weekend we’re being visited by Y’s son M and his wife H from LA, and their dog. I posted on Facebook a couple days ago a concern about what would happen when our three cats experienced a dog for the first time, and this dog cats.

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LCQs: Our Eroding Civil Society; Health Update

Posted on Friday 27 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

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LQCs: The United Mentally Ill States of America? Why Would That Be?

Posted on Thursday 26 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Media Matters, 25 May 2022: Fox News blames everything but guns for Uvalde massacre

Subtitle: Fox blamed anti-police sentiment, kids afraid to snitch, flimsy fences, and psychiatry for America’s most recent school shooting

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LQCs: Gun Ideology, Immune from Evidence; Real Kids vs. Imaginary Kids

Posted on Wednesday 25 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

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LQCs: Children, Guns, and Religion

Posted on Tuesday 24 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

From NYT Letters, printed 21 May 2022:

To the Editor:

The Republican checklist after a mass shooting:

Thoughts and prayers: Check.
This is not the time: Check.
Let’s not politicize: Check.
Guns are not the problem: Check.
Just enforce the laws we have: Check.
More mental health care: Check.
(Repeat.)

Jon Merritt
Los Angeles

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Declinists and Decadence: TV/Movies? Science Fiction?

Posted on Monday 23 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Quillette, Kevin Mims, 20 May 2022: Undiminished by Decadence

Subtitle: “I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they were in my salad days.”

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