Category Archives: Politics

Facebook Memes 8Sep21

Posted on Wednesday 8 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I will start compiling memes I see on Facebook, mostly without comment. These of course are anecdotes; they’re the equivalent of “people are saying” comments from a certain former president, though unlike him, I have Facebook share counts to indicate … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs This Past Month

Posted on Monday 16 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Too many to comment about in much detail.

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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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Two Thoughts About Expertise

Posted on Thursday 5 August 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Is the US more susceptible to skepticism about expertise — and to science, and prone to conspiracy theories — than other ‘advanced’ nations? Certainly there are anti-vax zealots in other countries as well, but I’ve thought of two reasons why … Continue reading →

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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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Links and Comments: Why People Believe

Posted on Friday 9 July 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Links from recent weeks, on political themes. The point, as always, isn’t to rag on Republicans or conservatives, it’s to collect case studies on epistemology: how and why people believe what they do. More and more, Republicans and conservatives have … Continue reading →

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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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Links and Comments 12 April 21

Posted on Monday 12 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Anti-vaxxers and Stop the Steal; Historical animus against Italians, and Irish; Racial replacement theory; Conservatives against democracy.

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Passages: How the World Works

Posted on Monday 12 April 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

My favorite news magazine, The Week, is celebrating 20 years of publication with its current April 16th issue, which has retrospectives of cover images, editorial essays, and so on. Here’s one of the latter, by editor-in-chief William Falk.

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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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