Category Archives: Politics

LQCs: Moral Turpitude and Government Bureaucracy

Posted on Thursday 31 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

On Facebook today, the science fiction author David Brin posted an article from the UK paper Guardian (actually, from its US edition), with this comment: “For all their posturing about defending children from abuse, their record tells another story.” At … Continue reading →

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L&Cs: Making Things So, As Long as They’re Black or White

Posted on Saturday 26 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

There was an item, an opinion piece, in one of the online venues a few weeks ago, the link to which I didn’t capture at the time and could not find later. I didn’t even read the whole piece. But … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Conservative Values and Behaviors

Posted on Thursday 24 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Topics for today: conservative grievance and rage; Marriage Equality is the next conservative target; Christian behavior; religious tests; longing for a 12th century past. (I usually display an image from one of the items I post, but for today I’ll … Continue reading →

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LQC: Sharpest Tools; My Tracking Spreadsheets

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 23 March 2022: New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box, subtitled, “Now there’s proof: Trump’s voters lack ‘cognitive sophistication,’ often believe Bible is literal word of God”

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LQCs: The Self-Righteousness of “Authentic” Americans

Posted on Tuesday 22 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

And: Republican victim-hood and their desire to discriminate against people they don’t like. And why the Supreme courts keeps discovering “new” rights.

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LQCs: Grievances, Envy, Government & Technology, Sleeping at Night

Posted on Sunday 20 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

What I discussed yesterday is in today’s NYT. NYT, Charles Homans, 19 March 2022: Trucker Protest Moved by More Than Opposition to Covid Mandates, “The demonstrators camped outside Washington are rallying against Covid restrictions, but are fueled by a far … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Contrarians, Conspiracy Theories, and Talking Points

Posted on Saturday 19 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic, David French, 18 March 2022: What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About the Right, subtitled, “Contrarians aren’t critical thinkers. They’re gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories.”

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LQCs: Ideology First, and Never Mind Facts

Posted on Friday 18 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Republicans pulled a fast one for DST. And according to them, everything wrong in the world is the Democrats’ or Biden’s fault.

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LQ&Cs: Russia, Putin, gas prices, the open society

Posted on Monday 14 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Russia and fake news, how current gas prices reflect actions untaken and short-term memories, Paul Krugman on Putin vs. the open society, and where Republicans might go with Ukraine conspiracy theories.

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LQCs: Existential Problems

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

There are real, existential problems that humanity needs to worry about.

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