Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

Easier to Destroy than to Build

Posted on Monday 3 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Or: The Anti-America Americans. Latest about the coup: Today Trump has suspended the tariffs he’d said would go into effect *today* on Mexico and Canada. Familiar pattern? He’s flailing. Musk and his gang of college kids have compromised the financial … Continue reading →

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People Are Saying… It’s a Coup

Posted on Sunday 2 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Another sleepy day with a cold, and it’s gloomy and drizzly outside today too. The latest on what’s going on, via Connie Willis and Heather Cox Richardson; LA Times on Trump’s idiotic order to empty two California reservoirs; An example … Continue reading →

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What They’re Trying to Wipe Out

Posted on Saturday 1 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Under the weather the past few days, with an ordinary cold, mostly a scratchy-throat driven cough. Today: light reading, and naps. At an FBI facility, someone is literally painting over a wall of value words, like “fairness,” “diversity,” “leadership,” and … Continue reading →

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The Corrosion of America

Posted on Friday 31 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump 2.0 so far; Comments from Willis, Richardson, and Reich; Krugman on tariffs; Trump’s mediocre cabinet appointments; Lydia Polgreen on our age of mass migration, how countries like the US actually need immigrants, and how opponents of migration can only … Continue reading →

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The Usual Villains

Posted on Thursday 30 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

A passenger plane and a military helicopter collide over the Potomac, killing 67, and who does Trump blame? Trump’s vile plane crash press conference; David A. Graham on how Trump is just watching, not taking charge; Allan Pettersson’s Symphony #8. … Continue reading →

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The Latest Chaos

Posted on Wednesday 29 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Let’s see if I can keep up. Today the Trump administration reversed the directive from two days ago to freeze federal grants until they could be scrubbed of improper thoughts. RFK Jr testified. And Trump announced he’ll build a detention … Continue reading →

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The Enemies Within

Posted on Tuesday 28 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Are those who are actively seeking to dismantle the government and turn the US into a selfish, xenophobic, insular, backward nation. Trump and his minions. And their fans. Trump thinks there’s a big water faucet in California that the military … Continue reading →

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RIP Wordpad

Posted on Monday 27 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Windows has deprecated WordPad, which makes my life more difficult; David French on a German thinker, Carl Schmitt, and the friend-enemy distinction, and how it informs current American politics; Latest thoughts from Heather Cox Richardson, about the cancellation of foreign … Continue reading →

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Fury and Chaos

Posted on Sunday 26 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

An off-hand summary of what Trump’s done in his first week, apparently working to install an authoritarian police state in America; How those who think the president should solve egg prices don’t understand capitalism, and Vance admits grocery prices aren’t … Continue reading →

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Heather Cox Richardson, DEMOCRACY AWAKENING, post 3

Posted on Sunday 26 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Summary thoughts about this book. Richardson tells the story of the past century, of the previous four years (before the book was published in 2019), and of the nation’s first century, in a matter-of-fact style that expresses not so much … Continue reading →

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