Mark R. Kelly
» Founder in 1997 and site-runner for 20 years of Locus Online (Hugo Award winner in 2002). Founder in 2012 and still site-runner of sfadb.com (Science Fiction Awards Database). Retired in 2012 after 30 years as a software engineer for a certain rocket engine factory.
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Category Archives: Lunacy
Ls&Cs: Is DNA Safe to Eat? Is America Undergoing a Mass Psychosis?
Paul Krugman on Republican resistance to investments in the future; a concern about whether DNA is safe to eat; about watching Fox News every day; and about Carl Jung’s warning about mass psychosis.
Links and Headlines: Dark Skies; Misinformation; Critical Thinking; Empathy; Headlines
There have been a handful of SF novels over the years that include as breaks between the prose sets of futuristic news headlines, to indicate the state of the future world without having to explicate it in detail. Gunn’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Conservative Resistance, Lunacy, Politics
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Ls&Cs: Interesting Times
The latest on strategies to avoid long-term calamities, knowing of calamities and lying about them, the US compared to South America and Europe, and Americans’ grasp of reality.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Culture, Links & Comments, Lunacy, Politics
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Facebook Memes 8Sep21
I will start compiling memes I see on Facebook, mostly without comment. These of course are anecdotes; they’re the equivalent of “people are saying” comments from a certain former president, though unlike him, I have Facebook share counts to indicate … Continue reading
Ls&Cs: Vaccine Regrets and Horse Paste
Have a backlog of links, of course, with new ones now that Christians in Texas are coming closer to matching the achievement of the Taliban in Afghanistan. But for now, a trend of the past couple weeks: right-wing vaccine deniers … Continue reading
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Ls&Cs: Tribal Loyalties and Conservative Irrationality
Several striking items recently that dovetail nicely, about covid and climate change denial.
Ls&Qs: Denying Reality, Rewriting History
It gets worse and worse.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Lunacy, Politics, Science
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L&C: Bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray
From a long Facebook post by one Thomas Clay Jr. (a journalist and author of at least one book): here.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Links, Lunacy, Politics
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Ls&Cs: Paul Krugman on Ignorance and Conservative Values
Two op-ed pieces this past week by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
LQCs: Ukraine, CPAC, and Cognitive Decline
Links today, with quote and comments, about conservative reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the priorities of CPAC and cognitive decline, and the idea of separating red states from blue cities.