From Pine View Farm

March, 2013 archive

Only 13 Days Till Opening Day! 0

Until then, I am with the guru.

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Plus ca Change 0

Pundit in 2003:  We must invade Iraq to protect our national security.  Trust me.  Pundit in 2013:  We must invade Iran to protect our national security.  Trust me.

Via Bartcop.

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Boundaries 0

If you want to understand what happened in Steubenvile, you can start with than this:

A New York City man flying cross country with his 12-year-old son allegedly put his hand underneath the skirt of a sleeping female passenger and massaged her thigh, an act he later defended by telling the victim, “It’s not like I molested you. It’s not like I stuck my finger in your pussy or grabbed your tits.

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Theatre of the Absurdity 0

With acerbic commentary by Julianna Forlano.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Sexist geek twits.

A female tech developer who outed men on Twitter for making what she described as inappropriate sexual comments at a Santa Clara technology conference Sunday is being hailed as a champion for women in technology.

But the backlash against Adria Richards has been brutal and swift. Richards, who is based in San Francisco, has been fired from her job as a “developer evangelist” at SendGrid, a Colorado-based email delivery company, according to tech blog VentureBeat. And she has received disturbing comments on her Twitter feed and violent images referencing rape and murder.

There seems to be a certain coterie in geekdom who think that sitting at a console typing code into a text editor is somehow reserved for macho, macho men.

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Republican “Minority Outreach” 0

An oxymoron, now! with extra, added morons!

Tony Norman struggles to wrap his mind around the concept of “Frederick Douglass Republicans.”

I can’t summarize or excerpt the piece and do it justice. Just go there.

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Unskirting Reality 0

Arizona Republicans, skeevier than ever.

Is this their next step?

Read more »

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QOTD 0

Flannery O’Connor:

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

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A Fox in the Schoolhouse 0

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Observance, All Over Again 0

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Return of Beyond the Palin, the Reality TV Years 0

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Via the The Daily Banter.

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Facebook Frolics, No There There Dept. 0

On Tuesday came the denouement: Berkman, now 71, was arrested at his home in an exclusive Odessa community and charged with securities fraud, accused of peddling Facebook shares he didn’t control. Prosecutors say he pocketed much of the $8 million he received from more than 50 investors, funneling $5.43 million to satisfy an earlier bankruptcy judgment against him and about $1.6 million toward personal expenses, including travel, dining and ATM withdrawals.

The guy is so stalwart a Republican with so exemplary a record of Republican economic practices (follow the link) that John McMaverick McCain refused his donations.

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Observance, Reprise 4

Der Spiegel looks back at the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq and attempts to learn something from it. Here are two of their conclusions:

6. It was the war of the neocons

(snip)

7. The neocons learned little from the war

Follow the link for the rest, including their reasoning.

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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0

Not too bad, but sequestration . . . .

Applications for jobless benefits increased by 2,000 to 336,000 in the week ended March 16, Labor Department figures showed today. Economists projected 340,000 claims, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. The monthly average, which smoothes the week-to-week volatility, dropped to the lowest level since February 2008.

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The four-week moving average of claims, a less-volatile measure, dropped to a five-year low of 339,750 from 347,250.

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Both Sides Not 0

Lee Jussim:

Just because people on both sides think the other side is out of touch does not necessary mean both sides are equally out of touch with reality. If you believe there are demons under the bed and I think you are delusional, one of us is actually right and the other is actually wrong.

So who engages in more science-denial — liberals or conservatives?

Read the rest.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

“Biostitutes.” Heh.

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QOTD 0

Walter Lippman:

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

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Welcome Spring 0

Bluebird on fence

H/T to my brother for the pic.

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Self-Indulgence 0

Got myself a triceps bar.

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Driving while Brown 0

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