Monthly Archives: December 2024

Economics vs. Intuition and Common Sense

Posted on Saturday 7 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

I missed posting yesterday because there was a Locus Foundation meeting (via Zoom) that began at 3pm my time and ran until 5:30pm, right through my blogging hour. At 5:30 it was time to get ready for dinner with my … Continue reading →

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Advance Warnings

Posted on Thursday 5 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Tsunami Alert! Robert Reich on Donald Trump’s cabinet of sycophants and charlatans; Threats against those who defy the “Gospel of Trump”; Heather Cox Richardson look back on the history of business vs the government; How the right perceives the murder … Continue reading →

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Politics as Aspects of Human Nature

Posted on Wednesday 4 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

An early post on this blog quoted Robert Reich about how most progressives live in cities and on the coasts, and most regressives live in rural areas far removed from ports and cities. It’s a widely noted pattern. “Our problem … Continue reading →

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Political Retributions, and Values

Posted on Tuesday 3 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Three and a half years after my heart and kidney transplants, I’m doing fine; About Biden’s pardon of his son, and the impending takeover of the FBI to pursue retribution; Robert Reich understands why he did it; Yet another essay … Continue reading →

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People Would Rather Believe Than Know

Posted on Monday 2 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

How conservatives distrust science because it does not accommodate “moral and religious values”, thus missing the point of science; Mark Lilla on the allure of ignorance; Dinesh D’Souza admits 2000 Mules was flawed; Heather Cox Richardson on how government institutions … Continue reading →

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Politics, Tribalism, and the Retelling of History

Posted on Sunday 1 December 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

Book burning and the erasure or retelling of history; Trump’s latest outrageous choice for his cabinet; And how Trump voters are now unconcerned about voter fraud, since their side won. Given that ideology, tradition, and storytelling are more common on … Continue reading →

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