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LCQs: Our Eroding Civil Society; Health Update

Posted on Friday 27 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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LQCs: Moral Collapse, the Paranoid Style, Deflection

Posted on Tuesday 17 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

(With an endpiece.) Paul Krugman is back from vacation. NYT, Paul Krugman, 16 May 2022: From Voodoo to MAGA to Buffalo I never thought I’d say this, but I miss voodoo economics.

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LQCs: Fringe Conspiracy Theories Becoming Mainstream; Duplicity; Sharpening of Focus

Posted on Monday 16 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, 15 May 2022: A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P., subtitled, “Replacement theory, espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre, has been embraced by some right-wing politicians and commentators.”

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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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Ls&Qs&Cs: Fantasies and Lies and Backlashes

Posted on Tuesday 1 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s another Links & Quotes & Comments post about… recent events. What’s going on. The continued pandemic and Fox News’ complicity. How Republican strategies are making everything worse. About the suppression of Maus and its consequences. And the root of … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Facebook quotes; More about book banning; The crazies

Posted on Saturday 29 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Jesse Bering; Adam Grant; Rod Serling; Dr. Seuss and cancel culture; crazies Sherri T and Candace O.

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E.O. Wilson: THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH (2012)

Posted on Wednesday 19 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

E.O. Wilson’s THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH, from 2012, is in my estimation one of the four most significant books by this scientist and writer. (The others are ON HUMAN NATURE, 1978; CONSILIENCE, 1998; and THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE, … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: War on Christmas; Book Hoarders

Posted on Monday 13 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The earliest people who objected to Christmas were… the Puritans. And a piece about famous people who own lots of books.

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Ls&Cs: Democrats and Republicans and Car Designs

Posted on Saturday 4 December 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

About the changing identities of Democrats and Republicans, over the past century and a half; about the logic of abortion, from a philosopher; about the dismal history of infrastructure (and how this relates to conspiracy theories); and two items about … Continue reading →

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Aug-Sep Ls&Cs: Revising the Decline of Credulous, Mansplaining Fossil Fuel Flat-Earthers and Klan Refugees

Posted on Monday 4 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From early August through early September — back at the beginning of the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, when Covid deaths in the US hadn’t yet reached 700,000.

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