How I Use Bookstores, Past and Present

Posted on Monday 11 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Jeff Deutsch, 9 April 2022: What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?, subtitled “We booksellers have seen it all.”

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LQCs: Child Informants and Cycles of Progress and Tyranny

Posted on Sunday 10 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, front page article today, posted yesterday 9 Apr 2022: Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War, subtitled, “Citizens are denouncing one another, illustrating how the war is feeding paranoia and polarization in Russian society.”

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Projection and Disgust

Posted on Saturday 9 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

More on the theme of, why now? Some of the reasons are eternal; that certain themes seem to be more apparent currently may just be random variation in the news of the day. (I saw a comment somewhere about the NYT story I posted about two days ago wondering why the NYT thought this was news; it’s not new.)

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Globalization, Wokeness, and Trek

Posted on Friday 8 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

New York Times, David Brooks, 8 April 2022: Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

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LQCs: Regression

Posted on Thursday 7 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

One has to wonder, why now?

New York Times, front page 7 April 2022: The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’, subtitled, “Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise music and prayer blend with political anger over vaccines and the 2020 election.”

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LQCs: Orientation and Gender; Life at Beginning and End

Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

When you are certain of your position on some controversial issue, it’s worth considering the counterpoint to that issue, and how you would justify your position on that, to see if your positions are logically consistent.

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Carl Sagan, PALE BLUE DOT (1994), post 2

Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I posted about my favorite two parts of this book a week ago, in this post, and today will post a complete outline of the book based on my notes as I read, somewhat edited and slimmed down.

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LQCs: False Flag Fact Checking

Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Andrew Moshirnia, 31 March 2022: Russia’s Diabolical New Approach to Spreading Misinformation.

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LQCs: Hyperbole, Ridiculous Lies, and Anti-Liberalists

Posted on Monday 4 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A few items from recent days.

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LQCs: Symmetry and Simplicity

Posted on Sunday 3 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a science item from the New York Times a couple weeks ago that presents what seems to be a mystery or conundrum about nature (and evolution) that turns out to have a simple answer that, once pointed out, seems obvious.

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