Category Archives: Links & Comments

Union Square; Going for the Kill; the Need for a Villain

Posted on Tuesday 21 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Perhaps from time to time I’ll move the “endpiece” discussion to the *top* of the post. So: Today we visited Union Square in San Francisco, on this the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year. (Which means the shortest … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Theocrats, School Boards, Libraries, Shocked Parents; The Sound of Music

Posted on Monday 20 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

How shocked parents are fighting back against school boards and public libraries; how other parents respond; how and when abortion became so important to the Christian right; and about the usual Republican gerrymandering. With an endpiece about The Sound of … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Resistance to Learning; and Learning

Posted on Thursday 2 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Articles about William F. Buckley, the Republicans’ war on education, and fire management.

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Ls&Cs: How People View the World, and Their Conclusions

Posted on Thursday 18 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Once again, the issues here are not political, exactly; they are about the underlying issues of how different people view the world, and come to starkly different conclusions, which just happen to reveal themselves politically.

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Ls&Qs&Cs: Recent Headlines; The Collapse of America?

Posted on Saturday 13 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Clearing out saved links from the past few weeks, posted here mostly just as links with only a few quotes and comments, and ending with a provocative site linked to the Medium blog collective.

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Links & Comments: More on Foundation and Dune

Posted on Friday 12 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I still have not seen the Dune movie, nor any Foundation episode past the 2nd. Still, articles and reviews about them illustrate some basic principles about science fiction, and about dramatic adaptations of science fiction, and I’ll post a few … Continue reading →

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L&Cs: Jill Lepore on Muskism and Science Fiction

Posted on Sunday 7 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Just one item today, after a long afternoon with a screaming baby.

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Ls&Cs: Stuff, Terms, Panics, Rules

Posted on Saturday 30 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Maybe we should all just buy less stuff. How citizenship has given way to consumerism. Why partisans deliberately confuse terms like expenses and investments. And how some rewrite history in support of ideological narratives.

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Ls&Cs: Foundation, Dune, and Long-Term Projects

Posted on Wednesday 27 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I haven’t seen the new Dune movie and am not sure I will, in part because my partner just doesn’t care about that kind of movie (and I could never do anything like going to see a movie by myself), … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Problem-Solving, Ethics, Out-Group Prejudice, and Padding Bestseller Lists

Posted on Monday 11 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Several links that I collected on April 20th, the day I went to the hospital for what led to my heart transplant.

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