From Pine View Farm

2015 archive

The Gang That Couldn’t Vote Straight 0

Dick Polman tries to make sense of what’s happening with Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Barbarian crying,

What could be more entertaining – though dangerous for our democracy – than the latest Republican reality show? Our popcorn runneth over. After their boffo triumphs in the ’14 congressional elections, the Republicans were out to prove that they could actually govern. But it turns out (big surprise!) that they can’t even govern themselves. Leaderless and rudderless, hijacked in the House by a rump cadre of right-wing extremists, the GOPers couldn’t find their own butts if the route was charted on Google Maps.

Read the rest, then read this.

Image via Job’s Anger.

Share

The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Share

Full Metal Talking Points 0

Cartoon lampooning gun nut talking points by replacing the word

Via Job’s Anger.

Share

An Ex-Republican Explains Why He Left 0

He left because the Republican Party has become the party of the Secesh and of the Dominionists.

When I resigned from the Virginia Beach City Committee, I stated that until the party once again honored the concept of the separation of church and state, I could not be a member of the GOP. In the intervening years, things have only gotten worse. With the rise of white evangelicals and Christian extremists, we have seen the attendant rise and acceptance of racism and white supremacy within the GOP (the “Tea Party” is merely a label to hide the real nature of the insane party base).

More at the link.

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Play politely during your overnight stay.

“Two adults [were] handling a firearm accidentally [one] shot the other in the arm,” said police Sgt. David Lefont.The person first claimed to have been shot at a Texaco gas station. Police later said the accidental shooting happened in a room at the La Quinta at 1910 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard.

Share

Heaven Forbid Kids Should Be Kids 0

Now they need recess consultants, apparently because third graders’ unstructured play is a bad thing.

One more time, is there some sort of intelligence test persons must fail so as to become school administrators?

(Remember what a consultant is: Anyone more than 50 miles from home toting a laptop bag.)

Via Thoreau.

Share

NRA Paradise Elementary School 0

Title:  NRA plan for school security.  Picture:  Children trotting into armored vehicle labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

Share

QOTD 0

Herodotus:

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Share

And Now for Something Completely Different 0

Share

It’s Not about the Money . . . 0

. . . except when it is.

Share

Clueless 0

Steve Chapman marvels over Ben Carson and his adventures in Wonderland.

More Ben here.

Share

The “Misdirection Play” 0

At Talking Points Memo, Jason Sanford explains how the Republican Party has raised the Misdirection Play to a high art.

Just read it.

Share

“Ben Jitsu” 0

Share

What It Was, Was Football 0

Title:  The Bookie Education System.  Image:  One inmate says to another,

Click for a larger image.

Non Sequitur is the only contender as successor to The Far Side.

Share

So the Republican House Was Walking Down
the Street and Turned into a Speakereasy
0

Will Bunch wonders at the end before the beginning of the new McCarthy Era.

The Republican House is in disarray because of course it is. It would be funny were it not so dangerous.

Share

All the News that Fits, Citizens Benighted Dept. 0

Aside:

He left out the part about the smuggling.

Share

QOTD 0

Karl Popper:

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Share

Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

Share

Twits on Twitter 0

Yet another racist twit.

Share

How Stuff Works, Meritocracy Dept. 0

Share
From Pine View Farm
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.