Category Archives: conservatives

Disconnects from Reality, and a Couple Positive Notes

Posted on Sunday 11 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

On the one hand, A Truth+ movie about ‘Lizard People’; RFK Jr vows to stop chemtrails; Democrats have a ‘dictatorship mentality’? Texas Christians presume to spend a month celebrating God’s promises; Tom Nichols on a witch hunt at the State … Continue reading →

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How the US is retreating into tribalism

Posted on Saturday 10 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The White House press secretary, addressing the firing of the head of the Library of Congress, is either ignorant, stupid, or lying; How the natalist movement, perhaps led by Elon Musk, relies on endless growth, which is not plausible; To … Continue reading →

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The US Is Becoming a Demon-Haunted World. Not Necessarily Again.

Posted on Friday 9 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The National Science Foundation abolishes its 37 divisions; Yet another Trump sycophant from Fox gains a top position, as DC’s top prosecutor; Loonies: Loomer on witchcraft, Hegseth on homosexuality; How wacko conspiracy theories are now affecting the highest levels of … Continue reading →

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The Conservative War Against Liberals, and Cat Toys

Posted on Wednesday 7 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump’s war against Harvard isn’t about anti-Semitism, it’s about a war against being liberal; And how this fits into my running theme on this blog; The US is trying to impose its anti-DEI values on other countries; Crime is down, … Continue reading →

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The Clueless Conservative War on Reality

Posted on Saturday 3 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

MAGA’s war science: Ignorance is Strength!; Trump doesn’t understand the separation of church and state; Trump doesn’t understand how trade deficits worth; Trump thinks Veterans Day should be only about veterans who won wars; Trump doesn’t understand even the Declaration … Continue reading →

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Credulity, Innumeracy, and Alarmism

Posted on Thursday 1 May 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

More about Pam Bondi’s nonsensical claim that Trump has saved 258 million lives by seizing fentanyl; Has it occurred to Red States to extend tariffs to Blue States, and only buy products from other Red States? How would that work … Continue reading →

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Trump 100

Posted on Tuesday 29 April 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump’s 100 days, with charts; Even the conservative Wall Street Journal considers Trump’s a “failed presidency”; Now the administration is looking to jail journalists; How MAGA loves public meltdowns; How Hegseth boasts of axing a program as “woke” that was … Continue reading →

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Chris Mooney, THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE

Posted on Tuesday 29 April 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

(Basic Books, 2005, 342pp, including 86pp of interview credits, other credits, notes, and index.) This is journalist Mooney’s first book, from 20 years ago, and it’s especially apropos to look back at now given the hostility to and/or misunderstanding of … Continue reading →

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History Rhymes? Will Humanity Ever Advance?

Posted on Saturday 26 April 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How history rhymes, about tariffs: Smoot-Hawley and Trump; How Musk lives fantasies about expanding the population (of people like him) without a grasp on numbers; How DOGE has cost taxpayers $135B, while claiming to have saved $160B — even that … Continue reading →

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Conservative Intellectuals, and the Wrong Way to Do Science

Posted on Thursday 24 April 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Robert Reich collects comments from conservative intellectuals about the Trump administration; Reich summarizes ten points that demonstrates Trump’s ineptitude and incompetence; Similarly, Salon’s Brian Karem on how Trump has turned the White House into a joke; How RFK Jr.’s approach … Continue reading →

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