From Pine View Farm

October, 2016 archive

Twits on Twitter 0

Daniel Ruth doesn’t get the fascination of twitting.

From my distant observation it seems nothing very much good comes from twittering, or whatever you want to call it. Exhibit A: There is a 70-year-old man who looks like a paranoid traffic cone, who has been known to tweet at all hours of the wee morning attacking former beauty queens and, according to the New York Times, starting nearly 300 idiotic feuds with various people, places and things with the possible exception of the Future Farmers of America. We’re not exactly in Algonquin Round Table territory here. We’re not even in Alfred E. Neuman’s ZIP code.

Follow the link for Exhibit B &c.

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Toll of the Tarheel Potty Police 0

Image:  N. C. Governor McCrory raising arms in triumph while holding a paper saying


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Trumpling the Stragety 0

Title:  Trump Campaign Organization Chart.  Image:  The candidate: Trump is saying to woman reporter,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Do You Want Fries with That Nothingburger? 0

I’ve said before why I think the Hillary Clinton email scamdal is rightwing con job fueled by hatred of all things Clinton mixed with ignorance of how email, computers (those magickal mystickal black boxes), and networks work, stirred with the Fox News Mixmaster, and baked in wingnut fever dreams.

Accordingly, I paid little attention to yesterday’s kerfuffle other than to form two opinions:

  • It would eventually become clear that, once more, there was no there there.
  • The FBI screwed the pooch.

Eventually seems to have come sooner than I expected.

BadTux, more patient than I, has dug into the details. I commend his analysis to your attention.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Artificial twits.

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The Trump of Marching Feet 0

Title:  Group think loyalty program.  Image:  Huge head of Donald Trump as if a cave with a vulture sitting on his forelock.  Line of persons walking in to be devoured.  One says,


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QOTD 0

Quentin Crisp:

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

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A Palate Cleanser 0

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Deplorable and Proud Of It, By Gum 0

Voter intimidation was what it was all about, was it not?

And, in more news of the deplorables . . .

The stupid. It burns.

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Chris-Crossed 0

Requiem.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 1

Farron rips on President Obama for not doing anything about fracking. He may have a point, but given the Congress of the last six years, it’s a very small one.

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Both Sides Not 0

Frame One:  Trump saying

Via Job’s Anger.

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Like Sanduskies Through the Hourglass, These Are the Knaves of Our Lives 0

Penn State has to pay for protecting a pederast.

In case you wonder why I no longer pay attention to college football, follow the link for one example.

I can no longer ignore the corruption. Like Crabby Appleton, it is rotten to the core.

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Snapcrash 0

No selfie-awareness whatsoever.

A tipsy Texas collegian was taking a topless Snapchat photo for her boyfriend last night moments before she crashed her car into a parked police cruiser, according to cops.

Fully-clothed details at the link.

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The Curiouser and Curiouser Campaign 0

Dick Polman notes another first in this increasingly bizarre election season:

Never before, to my knowledge, has the vice-presidential candidate on a national ticket essentially taken it upon himself to endorse the presidential candidate of a rival ticket. Seriously, if you tried to make this stuff up, nobody would believe it.

But Bill Weld actually did it.

Follow the link for details.

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QOTD 0

Eddie Murphy:

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

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None Dare Call It Terrorism 0

Get out of Jail free card

White Privilege

Jesus.

Were it a private dwelling, the deed would have been a “home invasion.”

Work with me here. Just for a moment, imagine that they were Not White.

Think about it.

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The Candidates Debate 0

Via C&L.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

Fever-dreams in the fever swamps.

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