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Today’s Favorite Song — Beck, Turn Away

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Mark R. Kelly
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Once Again: Turn Away

Posted on 17 February 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

Via AZ Lyrics, the last verse [updated per comment below] Turn, turn away From the weight of your own words It’s magic for the devil And betray the lack of change Once you have spoken Turn away [Update 18feb15: listening … Continue reading →

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Things That Don’t Change

Posted on 18 August 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

In particular, the reactions by conservatives to things that do change. Topics today: Illegals and the military; How poor poll results must be fake; The American struggle between reason and ignorance; How one small town is indeed deeply conservative; Considering … Continue reading →

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Keeping Things In Perspective

Posted on 15 May 2024 by Mark R. Kelly

How Biden is less unpopular than leaders of other major nations; How 17% of voters blame Biden for the end of Roe (that is, many voters are not paying attention); and how I think many voters select a presidential candidate … Continue reading →

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SF Reviews

Posted on 12 June 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Recent SF: Beukes, Lauren. The Shining Girls. review. Chambers, Becky. 2014/2015. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. review Doctorow, Cory. Homeland. review. King, Stephen. Revival. review. Kowal, Mary Robinette. 2018. The Calculating Stars. review. Liu, Cixin. The Three-Body … Continue reading →

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Nichols, THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE

Posted on 17 February 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Tom Nichols’ THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (Oxford, 2017) is one of the better in the batch of recent books I’ve read about current events and how they reflect issues of science … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

Posted on 5 June 2018 by Mark R. Kelly

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES is Bradbury’s best and best-known science fiction book, given that we allow it to be called science fiction at all (this has always been debatable). The only contender for this position, a book which certainly leads it … Continue reading →

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ToC 2003 – 2013

Posted on 2 December 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

Monday, March 18, 2013 Pyramids Frank Ocean’s song Monday, March 18, 2013 Sfadb up to date; next phase Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Locus Interface Fran Myman visited for a weekend; how to update website… Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Reading and … Continue reading →

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ToC

Posted on 13 November 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

July 2018: This page isn’t up to date, but might still serve as a useful page to search. Saturday, December 31, 2016 George Michael links to YouTube videos, with lyric quotes, of two favorite songs Thursday, December 29, 2016 Rereading … Continue reading →

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