Mark R. Kelly
» Founder in 1997 and site-runner for 20 years of Locus Online (Hugo Award winner in 2002). Founder in 2012 and still site-runner of sfadb.com (Science Fiction Awards Database). Retired in 2012 after 30 years as a software engineer for a certain rocket engine factory.
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Category Archives: Politics
Links & Comments: How the Media Should Cover Indecent Politicians; The Streisand Effect
It’s the beginning the holiday season, which means I’ll get less done. I’m a little like Isaac Asimov, in the way that he famously preferred to stay at home (in his Manhattan highrise, with the curtains closed) to read and … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Politics, Psychology
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L&Cs: David Brooks on the American Right
Just one long piece in this post.
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Ls&Cs: Some Things Never Change; Some That Do Go Unremembered
How racism persists while changing its expression; how cherry-picking the Bible has been done for centuries; and how the seven-day week has only recently become the worldwide standard.
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Morality, Politics, Religion
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L&Qs&Cs: Innumeracy and Covid
Humans are intuitively not good at proportions and other statistical concepts, but those concepts can be taught. They are not, and politicians and partisan news sources use public misunderstanding of these concepts to their advantage.
Posted in Mathematics, Politics, Social Progress
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Ls&Qs&Cs: Recent Headlines; The Collapse of America?
Clearing out saved links from the past few weeks, posted here mostly just as links with only a few quotes and comments, and ending with a provocative site linked to the Medium blog collective.
Posted in Links & Comments, Politics, Religion
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Ls&Cs: Infrastructure; Insurrection; Safety; Radicals; Birthdays
When voting for infrastructure means betraying your country; how dying from Covid is sacrifice in the war against Joe Biden; when safety measures give false confidence; how QAnon and Pakistani radicals are similar; when birthdays were not a thing.
Posted in Politics, Psychology
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Ls&Cs: Hillary; Money; Rural America; the Economy; Populism
Today I had a dentist appointment; I compiled Weekly Bestsellers for Locus Online; I updated sfadb.com with the World Fantasy Award winners. After lunch: my thrice-weekly cardiac therapy. Then: read another chapter of Pinker; and now compiling links collected this … Continue reading
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L&Cs: Jill Lepore on Muskism and Science Fiction
Just one item today, after a long afternoon with a screaming baby.
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Ls&Cs: Imaginary Crises, Race-Baiting, Anti-Civility, CNN’s crisis reporting; and ‘When do we get to use those guns?’
One more round of Links and Comments for today, then promise will do some different kinds of posts for a while.
Posted in Politics, Psychology
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Ls&Cs: How People View the World, and Their Conclusions
Once again, the issues here are not political, exactly; they are about the underlying issues of how different people view the world, and come to starkly different conclusions, which just happen to reveal themselves politically.