From Pine View Farm

Indoctrination Nation 0

David parses the implications of some of Linda McMahon’s testimony in her confirmation hearings. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme.

It must be free verse, as somehow “Donald Trump” manages to rhyme with “Neville Chamberlain.”

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*Mark Twain.

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DOGE Ball, Reprise 0

Above the Law’s Joe Patrice is less than impressed with Elon Musk’s coup takeover of the government. A snippet:

Musk and his band of merry tweebs live in a video game world and it shows.

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QOTD 0

Jesse Jackson:

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, an oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable (in this case, pseudo-)phallus to a fellow motorist.

We are clearly a nation of Real Big Men with real tiny brains.

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Season’s Greetings, Reprise 0

Title:  Trump's Valentine to America.  Image:  Donald Trump writing a Valentine's Day card:  MAGA is red, losers are blue, Democracy's dead and I'm king over you.

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White Coffee 0

Words fail me.

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DOGE Ball 0

Security maven Bruce Schneier looks at how Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which, incidentally, is not a government department in any legitimate sense of the term) has compromised federal computer systems and concludes that it can legitimately be considered a cyberattack on “the sinews of government.”

Here is a little bit from his article:

But the most alarming aspect isn’t just the access being granted. It’s the systematic dismantling of security measures that would detect and prevent misuse—including standard incident response protocols, auditing, and change-tracking mechanisms—by removing the career officials in charge of those security measures and replacing them with inexperienced operators.

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Parental Frights 0

Florida Man.

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Season’s Greetings 0

Frame One:  Valentine's Day Cards for 2025.  Frame Two:  Picture of Elon Musk captioned,

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QOTD 0

Franz Kafka:

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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The Yolks on Us 0

An excerpt:

The point is not that Trump is a liar and a hypocrite. Everyone knows that on both sides of the aisle. It’s that right-wing MAGA populism is a scam.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

The American Bar Association has had enough.

Go read their statement.

Via C&L.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Larcenous? You be the judge.

Caption:  Algorithm & Blues.  Image:  Robot holding a guitar and saying,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Definitively Speaking 0

Republicans have been accusing NPR and PBS of spreading “far left” news.

Just to be clear, in Republicans’ eyes–er–ears, “far left” news, regardless of the source, is any news that Republicans don’t want (you) to know about.

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The Doppelganger* 0

Florida Woman.

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*With apologies to Henry Miller.

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QOTD 0

Max Born:

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

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