Site Maintenance Redux (Sticky) 0
Update, 2019-11-14:
I set up a redirect so that, if someone goes to the old URL for the blog (http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog), he or she will be sent to the current URL (http://www.pineviewfarm.net). I kicked myself several times for forgetting about redirects.
I’m still working on the email forwarder. I thought I had it, but it got away.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Beseiged 0
Steven M. takes issue with Bloomberg’s Eli Lake, who argues that the impeachment of Donald Trump makes Trump look weak. Rather, Steven suggests that Donald Trump’s supporters view it otherwise. A snippet:
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Right-wing voters have been this way for decades. Nixon, Reagan, Gingrich, George W. Bush — no matter how much power they had, there was always a sinister cabal of establishmentarians threatening to bring them down.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness goes to the dogs.
At one point, the woman said she fell to the ground. Deputies said the argument escalated, and the dog tried to protect the woman by nipping at Jordan.
Jordan then allegedly shot the family dog with a 12 gauge shotgun and left the scene. The dog was an 8-year-old pitbull lab mix.
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Today 0
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A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Las Vegas Sun laments the Trump administration’s prosecution persecution of a humanitarian for the crime of being a decent human being.
A Simple Answer 0
Dan Simpson wonders why more Americans don’t question our endless, often pointless and stupid, wars.
The answer is simple.
There’s no draft.
America’s endless wars are remote things that happen somewhere else to someone else, while most Americans occupy themselves with Pokemon-Go–er, Fortnite–and “social” media.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite in your big box store.
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(Police Capt. Kyle–ed.) Gibbs said the report indicates that an older man accidentally fired a round near the store’s jewelry department. The gun appears to have still been in his holster when the shot was fired.
“He said he’d dropped it earlier,” Gibbs said. “There is speculation that his jacket snagged the trigger.”
No one was injured and the man was asked to leave the store.
Lessons Learned 0
In the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record, a writer tells the tale of the lessons he has learned from his grandfather.
