Monthly Archives: March 2025

“The Wholesale Destruction of the United States Government”

Posted on Friday 21 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Heather Cox Richardson on the dismantling of the US government, on libraries and museums, and on the rule of law; WaPo’s Dana Milbank on Musk’s ignorance of the government he’s dismembering, on what judges do, and on the administration’s bows … Continue reading →

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The Devolution of the United States

Posted on Thursday 20 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

America is 24th in a ranking of the happiest countries in the world. Don’t Americans wonder why so many other countries are happier? I suspect they do not. [Update: this is a fairly superficial measure. Even so.] Trump and his … Continue reading →

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Is Science Partisan? How Could It Not Be?

Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The astronauts have returned, and Trump and Musk lie about what actually happened; The idea of blaming Mexico for the overdose epidemic is wrong, and will not work; Short items about eating less, globalism, cutting aid to the poor to … Continue reading →

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How MAGA folks don’t actually believe in traditional American values

Posted on Tuesday 18 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Rather, they embody the essence of primitive tribalism. A Ben Shapiro host renounces the Statue of Liberty and its “stupid” poem; The disappearance of Navajo Code Talkers on government websites suggests again that MAGA is a white supremacy movement; Shameless … Continue reading →

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More Ticks Off the Dictator Playbook List

Posted on Monday 17 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

There will be no calm still point. Trump defying the Court; a Constitutional crisis, perhaps; The next phase of Trump’s dictatorship era; Following the dictator playbook; Concern about discrimination against whites, and how MAGA is about white supremacy; How narratives … Continue reading →

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Son of Dispatches from Reality

Posted on Sunday 16 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How morality changes and can be used to build a better world, with tips about improving your moral technology; How choices and options may or may not have made us free; Music: Now on to Shostakovich; here’s Symphony #10. – … Continue reading →

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Dispatches from Reality

Posted on Saturday 15 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Taking a day off from political posts, for posts about reality. Or at least, the exploration of reality. Mathematicians solve a 125-year-old problem, perhaps; OnlySky’s Dale McGowan about the evolutionary mismatch between the world we evolved in, and the modern … Continue reading →

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Pi Day Rationalizations

Posted on Friday 14 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA rationalizes downturns in the economy; How scam artists prey on gullible old religious people; How the Family Research Council is anxious to replace education with religious indoctrination; How repeating a lie (“tariffs are tax cuts!”) often enough will … Continue reading →

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Here We Are: Stupid America

Posted on Thursday 13 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Frank Bruni on the Trump administration’s undercutting of America’s superpower; How the current secretary of defense thinks climate change is “crap”; Facts about the 19 programs dismissed as “waste”; Blast from the past: how Indiana tried to redefine Pi, to … Continue reading →

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MAGA and “Waste”

Posted on Wednesday 12 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Brian Klaas at The Atlantic on Elon Musk’s flawed view of “waste,” i.e. any kind of preventative measures to spend money now to avoid spending much more money later; And simpleton measures about measles from RFK Jr. Paul Krugman on … Continue reading →

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