Category Archives: Social Progress

LQCs: Jonathan Haidt on the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

Posted on Monday 18 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic website has a long essay (some 5000 words at an estimate) by Jonathan Haidt, to appear in the May 2022 print edition. The Atlantic, Jonathan Haidt, 11 April 2022: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have … Continue reading →

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LQCs: More about DST and the effects on US states

Posted on Thursday 17 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Maps of how DST would affect US states, and commentaries.

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LQCs: Legislating Reality: Redefining “Noon”

Posted on Tuesday 15 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A bill passed the Senate today to make Daylight Saving [not Savings] Time permanent. This, in effect, would redefine noon, in the US, to be the time of day indicated by 1pm on the clock. This is, in effect, changing … Continue reading →

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Berlin in 1993; The Dark 21st Century; Wordle

Posted on Friday 18 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s L&Qs&Cs, about where the 21st century is heading after the optimism of the 1990s, with a recollection about being in Berlin in 1993. Today’s endpiece, about Wordle.

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Graduation

Posted on Wednesday 12 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today I finished, or ‘graduated,’ my cardiac therapy program. It went for 36 sessions (the most that insurance covers, apparently), and began the Wednesday after Labor Day, but what with the facility’s shutdown for a month due to plumbing issues, … Continue reading →

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Links & Quotes: Spy Stories; Secularism

Posted on Tuesday 11 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Janis Ian (the singer, who I follow on Facebook), offered this David Bowie quote the other day: “As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time … Continue reading →

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L&Cs: About Religious History, Defined by Europeans

Posted on Saturday 11 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Until the late 19th century, there were only four religions, according to Europeans.

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L&Cs: Learning from Others; A Universal Education

Posted on Tuesday 30 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Americans mostly resist considering what other countries in the world are doing that objectively makes their economies better, or their health and prosperity higher, than the US’s, because Americans are “exceptional,” and, like, the greatest country ever. I suspect most … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: A Few Recent Headlines

Posted on Thursday 25 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Investing; astrology and narcissism; fear as self-defense; insurgency in America.

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Ls&Cs: Recognizing Asians; War on Democracy; Global Government

Posted on Saturday 20 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Conservative outrage about recognizing Asians; the Republican war on democracy; the faded dream of a global government to solve worldwide problems.

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