From Pine View Farm

October, 2016 archive

Withdrawing from the Race 0

Elephant sitting across desk from man at GOP Headquarters.  Man is asking,


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The “Wikileaks Revelations” 0

Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff wanted to win and discussed campaign strategy; the campaign worried that embarrassing stuff might be embarrassing; some persons occasionally had bad ideas.

Where oh where is my fainting couch?

I must clutch my pearls and swoon.

Afterthought:

If this stuff had appeared in The National Inquirer rather than at a website whose first name is “Wiki,” it would not have inspired even one editorial cartoon.

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The Endorsement 0

Evangelical saying,

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Trumpling Tirades 0

Daniel Ruth reviews the now-infamous Billy Bush-Trump tape and is not impressed.

Listen to Trump blithely dropping his alphabet of expletives and you see this is a chap engaging in offensive bloviating in a hapless effort to demonstrate — for the sake of Billy Bush for heaven’s sake — what a man he is.

(snip)

What Trump failed to understand (so what else is new?) is that indulging in obscenity-laced monologues is a perverse art form, requiring timing and tone of voice.

A great example of this occurred on April 29, 1983. The Chicago Cubs had gotten off to a horrible start to the baseball season. After losing yet another game, the team was booed by the Wrigley Field patrons. When asked about the catcalls, the soon-to-be ex-manager Lee Elia delivered a three-minute masterpiece of vulgarity, including at least 35 permutations of a four-letter word we dare not print. The oration deserves to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

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QOTD 0

Kerry Greenwood:

Some ignorance is invincible.

Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.

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Geeking Out 0

Fluxbox on SlackwareCurrent with qmmp playing The Abandoned Room, the GKrellM usage monitor (bottom right), and (shaded) Terminator and Firefox on my new-to-me Gateway monitor that I picked up for 15 bucks at the local DAV thrift store.

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(The wallpaper automatically changes every 30 minutes because I wrote a script. I do like my pretty pictures.)

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Ailes and Trump, Workout Buddies? 0

I used to listen to Al Franken when he was on Air America. He is a thoughtful and impressive person.

Via Raw Story.

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You’ve Heard of Dune Buggies? 0

Now learn about buggy dunes.

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All That Was Old Is New Again 0

The American Scholar reprints Reinhold Niebuhr’s 1937 article about the rise of Fascism in Europe.

Read it.

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Republicans Reach Out to Women 0

Title:  The GOP Outreach to Women.  Image: Arm wearing

Via Juanita Jean.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Being a jerk just because he can frolics.

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“Some People Are More Equal Than Others”* 0

Andres Oppenheimer wonders why it took so long:

Since Trump announced his run for the presidency in mid-2015, he based much of his campaign on the premise that most Mexican immigrants are “rapists” and “criminals.” He has repeatedly insulted Muslims, as if all 1.6 billion of them were terrorists, and has publicly made fun of the physically handicapped. And with some notable exceptions, Republicans looked the other way.

Where were McCain, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and dozens of other high-profile Republicans who didn’t break with Trump until the Oct. 7 release of Trump’s now infamous video?

Most of them, like McCain, explained that they had made their difficult decision because “I have daughters.” Where were they when Trump demonized Hispanics? Don’t they have any Hispanic friends?

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*With apologies to George Orwell.

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The Hottest Thing in Tech 0

Two hikers lost in the snowy wilderness.  One says,


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Rumor is that Samsung’s new model will be the “Samsung Nova.” Initial reports are that it’s a blast to use.

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Trumpling the Dating Scene 0

More stuff you couldn’t make up.

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QOTD 0

Ted Sorensen:

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, r-e-p-r-i-s-e 0

Via TPM.

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The Cure 0

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Amateur Hour 0

Reg Henry considers one of the myths of American politics: the myth of the amateur.

Oddly, the voters who buy into this view would never dream of flying in a large airliner with an amateur pilot or have heart surgery done by a proctologist or have their home plumbing worked on by someone with no previous knowledge of pipes but thinks he can get by if he exposes his rear-end when he bends over.

Still, the idea of the gifted amateur coming into politics remains a prized national belief — and a seductively charming one. It’s Davy Crockett putting down his long gun to tackle the varmints in the capital, Mr. Smith going to Washington and confounding the political establishment as a citizen lawmaker.

Do read the rest.

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Old Media 0

I’ve been published.

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Conservative Dissonance 0

Foreground:  Man says to woman,

Via Job’s Anger.

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