Category Archives: Lunacy

A Warm Friday Afternoon

Posted on Friday 28 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

For today, several links and comments, and only one quote. About: The Ten Commandments in Texas; The ambitions of powerful men; The potential loss of literacy; Simon Winchester’s book about the transmission of knowledge; Jerry Coyne on Jesus ‘n’ Mo … Continue reading →

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The Relative Risks of Being Alive

Posted on Thursday 27 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest scientific studies of the effects of alcohol have concluded that the best amount of consumption is as little as possible, and how this is best understood through statistics about all kinds of risks; Robert Reich’s take on Trump … Continue reading →

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The Continued Deadly Consequences of the Obsolete Second Amendment

Posted on Sunday 23 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest in the endless commentary about gun violence in the US: items about how America fails the civilization test; how gun violence is worse in Red States (despite what the Republicans say about big Blue cities); and how the … Continue reading →

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Zbigniew Preisner, and the Daily News

Posted on Thursday 20 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Some slow thoughtful music, to keep things in perspective, against the daily news. And then daily news about frightened old people using their guns.

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About New Books by Phil Plait and Jamie Green

Posted on Wednesday 19 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Phil Plait’s Under Alien Skies Jamie Green’s The Possibility of Life And a Facebook cartoon about the cynicism of anti-intellectuals Phil Plait on John Scalzi’s blog today, about his new book Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe, … Continue reading →

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Making the Story Go Away

Posted on Tuesday 18 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

The big news today: Fox News has settled the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems. (Fox News had repeatedly implied that the 2020 election was somehow stolen via manipulation of the voting machines built by Dominion. Without an ounce of … Continue reading →

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Jerry Coyne on Deepak Chopra, Alex Ross on Max Richter, and others

Posted on Wednesday 12 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Jerry Coyne on Deepak Chopra And on the latest argument for the compatibility of science and faith A misleading article on the recent “paradigm” shift in the understanding of human evolution Reviews of new books by Sarah Bakewell and Sarah … Continue reading →

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How About a Conservative Resistance Against Globes?

Posted on Tuesday 11 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Topics for today: A flat-earth judge ruled against globes in public schools… or did I imagine that? Perhaps I’m confusing it with the mean-spirited rulings in Texas about abortion and in Florida about everything; Republicans in Missouri want to defund … Continue reading →

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The Latest Political Outrages and Shenanigans

Posted on Saturday 8 April 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s topics: Conservative outrage (so easily triggered) against Bud Light; Anti-democratic shenanigans in Tennessee, and the backlash; and how Tennessee places last among all states on democracy, and crushes dissent; About Republican indoctrination; MAGA’s worst week ever; How Medicare expenditures … Continue reading →

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Another Chatbot Shoe Drops

Posted on Saturday 25 March 2023 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest about chatbots, why they would be biased one way or another, and how there is now a conservative version of them; and recalling Conservapedia. Our story so far:

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