Ls&Cs: Recognizing Asians; War on Democracy; Global Government

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Conservative outrage about recognizing Asians; the Republican war on democracy; the faded dream of a global government to solve worldwide problems.

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America is a gun

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

This is circulating again on Fb; it’s been around for years. This is America’s reputation in the world!

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L&Cs: David Brooks on the American Right

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Just one long piece in this post.

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Pending

Posted on Friday 19 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

No post tonight; unanticipated domestic turbulence. Will fill in retroactively, if I can.

Update 20Nov21: No, let it stand.

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Ls&Cs: How People View the World, and Their Conclusions

Posted on Thursday 18 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Once again, the issues here are not political, exactly; they are about the underlying issues of how different people view the world, and come to starkly different conclusions, which just happen to reveal themselves politically.

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Ls&Cs: Some Things Never Change; Some That Do Go Unremembered

Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

How racism persists while changing its expression; how cherry-picking the Bible has been done for centuries; and how the seven-day week has only recently become the worldwide standard.

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Notes for a Series of Essays About Science Fiction

Posted on Tuesday 16 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The essays I plan to write will be about science fiction — the nature of science fiction with discussion of many individual science fiction works — and the things science fiction is about. Which is most things.

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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 April that I didn’t post at the time. Here are two, about Western philosophy, and human psychology.

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L&Qs&Cs: Innumeracy and Covid

Posted on Sunday 14 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Humans are intuitively not good at proportions and other statistical concepts, but those concepts can be taught. They are not, and politicians and partisan news sources use public misunderstanding of these concepts to their advantage.

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Ls&Qs&Cs: Recent Headlines; The Collapse of America?

Posted on Saturday 13 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Clearing out saved links from the past few weeks, posted here mostly just as links with only a few quotes and comments, and ending with a provocative site linked to the Medium blog collective.

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