Category Archives: Lunacy

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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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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As Things Fall Apart

Posted on Thursday 23 January 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How Trump’s war against DEI isn’t actually about merit; How despite claims of merit, those executive orders were shoddily written; How Trump prioritizes white Christian patriarchy; Comments from Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, and Robert Reich; How conservative response to … Continue reading →

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