Category Archives: Lunacy

Tribalistic Politics

Posted on Saturday 22 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Frank Bruni on why Trump keeps attacking Biden; Paul Krugman, via Adam Tooze, on how Trump has prejudices rather than ideas; Heather Cox Richardson recalls how Republicans have tried to create their own reality; Why MAGA voters want their opponents … Continue reading →

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Many Lies, No Coherent Plan

Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Commentaries and fact-checks about Trump’s speech to Congress last night. Dana Milbank on how Trump has set the country back 100 years; Fred Kaplan on Trump’s unhinged plans for the rest of the world; And Heather Digby Parton and David … Continue reading →

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Largely Unnoticed?

Posted on Tuesday 25 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Two big topics today: how Trump is aligning with dictators, breaking 75 years of America as leader of the free world; With items from NYT’s Fred Kaplan, Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, and Robert Reich. Some reflections from two books I’ve just … Continue reading →

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A Continual Stream of Lies and Gaslighting

Posted on Wednesday 19 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump claims Ukraine started the war; Zelensky accuses him of living in “disinformation space”; Musk, corrected about the lie that 150-year-old people are still receiving Social Security, keeps spreading that lie; Tom Nichols on Trump and Musk and Hannity, who … Continue reading →

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What They Mean By Traditional

Posted on Saturday 15 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Family arriving today for the weekend, so just a few quick items for now. DOGE is about putting “traditional” Americans back in charge; Where Nazi flags are fine, and Pride flags are banned; Musk is about purging federal workers to … Continue reading →

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Flooding the Zone with Shock and Awe

Posted on Saturday 8 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How to deal with it; I’m trying to put things into a broader perspective of their deep motivations, which are always about basic, tribalist, human nature; Trump is taking over Kennedy Center because he objects to drag; Plastic straws, racist … Continue reading →

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DEI and NASA

Posted on Friday 7 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

David Wallace-Wells on the sabotage of the American government; Paul Krugman on “autogolpe” and the Musk/Trump chaos; Heather Cox Richardson on how Republicans have, ever since Reagan, convinced voters that there’s an enemy “deep state” out to destroy their country; … Continue reading →

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Shades of Morality

Posted on Wednesday 5 February 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump’s crazy Gaza redevelopment plan; How conservatives use “corruption” (without evidence) as an excuse to undermine institutions they don’t like; And they would go after Wikipedia, if they could; Then a long sequence about JD Vance on Christian love, various … 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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