Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

They Precede Us

Not aliens. Aspects of primal human nature. Equus. But perhaps Disclosure Day is more of the same. Several links about Spielberg’s new movie Disclosure Day, which I’ll wait to see for another week or two. Will revisit and comment about … Continue reading

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Asymptotic Progress

OnlySky, Adam Lee, today: Cutting off the tail of climate change, subtitled “We’ve avoided the worst-case scenario.” Here’s the best news you’ll read this year: RCP8.5 is dead. This concerns the recent revision to the climate change model that simpletons … Continue reading

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The Destruction of American Scientific Research

Deport 106 million illegals?? More misunderstandings or lies about how California elections works; More about how experience, knowledge, and talent are being marginalized by the current US government; Items about 60 Minutes; Activity today: a brief jury duty experience (posted … Continue reading

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Aliens, by Spielberg, by the US Government

Steven Spielberg, his obsessions, my takes on some of his films, and the upcoming film Disclosure Day; NYT’s M. Gessen on how the White House identifies dangerous “aliens” with immigrants. – – – It’s hard to criticize a beloved film … Continue reading

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More about Conservatives, Tear-Downs, and Greed; plus Tax Breaks

Conservatives: A Christian snowflake says the mere sight of a Pride flag violates his religious beliefs; the demonic UFOs guy has been removed; how fascists think everyone in history much be portrayed as white Europeans (this is about the new … Continue reading

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Broad Categories

Scott Pelley fired: the destruction of 60 Minutes; David Brin on the dismantling of the ocean monitoring system; Several posts about how Trump and his administration are simply in it for the money; And several posts about conservative morality: demons, … Continue reading

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More Tear-Downs and Cancellations

Several items on the murdering of “60 Minutes,” and how loyalty to Trump is more important that expertise or experience; Another Trump appointee with no experience, only loyalty; The dismantling of an ocean monitoring system; The motivation behind the cancellations … Continue reading

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Superficial Christianity on Full Display

Things said at last weekend’s prayer rally, and how they strike me as unhinged from reality; Heather Cox Richardson’s take: a turning away from “Enlightenment values of natural rights, equality, and self-government to one that requires Americans to accept that … Continue reading

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The Law vs. Tribal Priorities

The Supremes eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, and the partisan flexibility of the law; King Charles visits while Trump claims America is not an idea but an inherited Anglo-Saxon culture; Heather Cox Richardson on the same point; Brief items about … Continue reading

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Will Humanity’s Cognitive Limitations Lead to the End of Human Civilization?

Belief in unfounded health care claims about solar energy; how so many people believe unproven claims about raw milk and vaccines; How the Trump administration is ending the EPA and paying to cancel wind farms; Chris Barkley on Trump’s 7-step … Continue reading

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