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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Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly
César Hidalgo, WHY INFORMATION GROWS
Subtitled “The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies” (Basic Books, 2015, xxi + 232 pp, including 51pp of acknowledgements, notes, and index) A few weeks ago I sat down to read the new Yuval Noah Harari book, NEXUS, and … Continue reading
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How Much Is There Left to Say?
David French: There will always be a Trump; David Frum: No one has an alibi; Facts, if anyone cares, about the economy under Biden and Trump (On 17 points: Biden advantage 11, Trump advantage 5, and 1 unclear); How Musk’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, conservatives, Lunacy, Politics, Religion
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Ramping Up
It’s happening right before our eyes. How Trump’s 2020 Playbook is being put into action; Trump simulates oral sex in public; Jonathan M. Katz on what Trump’s team will do following the election; Robert Reich reminds us of 101 terrible … Continue reading
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Prothero: WHY LIBERALS WIN THE CULTURE WARS…
(EVEN WHEN THEY LOSE ELECTIONS), subtitled “The Battles That Define America from Jefferson’s Heresies to Gay Marriage” (HarperOne, Oct 2016, 326pp, including 62p acknowledgements, notes, and index.) I’ve mentioned this book a few times, the first time even before it … Continue reading
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Another Trumpy Day
Trump imagines Liz Cheney before a firing squad; A history of Trump’s violent remarks; And his “enemies list”; Trumpists’ playbook for trying to overturn the election — check back next week; How Trump appeals to America’s xenophobic history; When leopards … Continue reading
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And Now We’re Talking about Garbage
How the mighty have fallen. What does Trump being a narcissistic sociopath say about us? I have some ideas; How another confrontation by a child to her Trump-voting father does not go well; More about Trump’s, and Biden’s, garbage comments; … Continue reading
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And So Here We Are
Trump’s closing argument is vulgarity; How Trump is unable to produce evidence of voter fraud; Similarly, how a far-right social media personality is unable to substantiate his calumny against James Carville; Shorter items: How Trump pardons only those loyal to … Continue reading
Appropriate Terminology
Several good items published today. We’re stuck in the Trump Loop because we can’t accept that sociopaths exist; Steven Pinker with data that says the country is *not* ‘dying’; Another piece about psychological “blind spots” and how to counter them; … Continue reading
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The Latest Display by the Despicables
You can’t escape it. He keeps topping himself. Items today are all about Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally yesterday. With some concluding thoughts about human nature and that famous William Gibson quote. CNN, 28 Oct 2024: Trump unveils the most … Continue reading
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Violence as a Public Health Issue, and Media Bias
Two New Yorker pieces today. I mentioned an article a couple weeks ago about whether violence is a disease (or actually, whether MAGA is a disease like violence is taken to be). Here’s another perspective. The New Yorker, Michael Luo, … Continue reading
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