Category Archives: Lunacy

Ls&Cs: Vaccine Regrets and Horse Paste

Posted on Friday 3 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Have a backlog of links, of course, with new ones now that Christians in Texas are coming closer to matching the achievement of the Taliban in Afghanistan. But for now, a trend of the past couple weeks: right-wing vaccine deniers … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Tribal Loyalties and Conservative Irrationality

Posted on Tuesday 10 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Several striking items recently that dovetail nicely, about covid and climate change denial.

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Ls&Qs: Denying Reality, Rewriting History

Posted on Friday 16 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

It gets worse and worse.

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L&C: Bamboozled, hoodwinked, led astray

Posted on Friday 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From a long Facebook post by one Thomas Clay Jr. (a journalist and author of at least one book): here.

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Ls&Cs: Paul Krugman on Ignorance and Conservative Values

Posted on Friday 2 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Two op-ed pieces this past week by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

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Links and Comments: Owning Libs and Tyrannical Government Plots

Posted on Thursday 1 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Republican values and principles; enduring human nature.

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Links and Comments: Alternate Realities

Posted on Tuesday 9 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Marjorie Taylor Greene, evangelical minds, selective science, denying the truth.

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Notes and Quotes: Richard Dawkins’ UNWEAVING THE RAINBOW

Posted on Friday 5 March 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Here is a middle-period book by the Oxford scientist whose writing mostly focuses on evolution; this one is an exception. Its topic is the beauty of science, how science addresses the “appetite for wonder,” and how people who don’t understand … Continue reading →

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Links and Comments: RL, as despicable as DJT

Posted on Thursday 18 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Vox: Rush Limbaugh’s toxic legacy, subtitled “Rush Limbaugh is dead at 70. The Republican Party he poisoned is very much alive.”

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Links and Comments: Political Matters This Week: 11 Feb 2021

Posted on Thursday 11 February 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

This is the week Trump is being impeached for inciting a riot and invasion of the Capitol, and Republicans, supposedly the party of personal responsibility, are going to let him get away with it. Nothing to see here, they say. … Continue reading →

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