From Pine View Farm

August, 2019 archive

Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

George Wallace’s daughter sees echoes of her father’s racist political tactics in Donald Trump’s behavior.

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Magickal Thinking 0

Methinks Jason330 has a point.

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QOTD 0

Gertrude Stein:

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

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Deport City 0

Dana Milbank outlines all the reasons why Baltimore must be deported. Here’s a snippet:

To be fair, there are a few areas in which Baltimore and Trump have some common ground: Baltimore, in the early 19th century, was the first American city to embrace gas lighting; Trump, in the early 21st century, embraces gaslighting. Baltimore inspired “Hairspray” and “The Wire“; Trump gave us “The Apprentice.” Baltimore, in Trump’s telling, is a “rat and rodent infested mess”; Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was cited for 78 health-code violations over three years.

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Misdirection Play, Jobbed Dept. 0

Frame One:  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Pathocracy” 0

Steve Taylor discusses a common, but seldom discussed, form of government that has manifested itself in many different political systems.

I commend his article to your attentioin.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is an integral component of marital bliss.

(Sheriff’s Deputy–ed.) Renard, 63, is charged with murder. His wife, Patricia Spivey, 52, was shot to death at their home on Briscoe Street over the weekend.

Court records show Spivey called 911 at about 3 a.m. Sunday to request an ambulance, saying he and his wife had fought over a gun, and he accidentally shot her.

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The Ingredients of Inaction 0

Shaun Mullen reverse-engineers a recipe for wafflers.

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Audience Participation 0

More stuff you couldn’t–or wouldn’t want to–make up.

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Dead Giveaway 0

Image of Donald Trump tweeting.  Caption:  How can you tell the President is acting like a racist?  His thumbs are moving.

Click for the original image.

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QOTD 0

Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Nero Wolfe (Goldsborough has continued the Wolfe stories with the blessing of Rex Stout’s family):

Many people tend to believe everything that appears on a printed page, no matter how questionable the vehicle or how outrageous the statement.

Goldsborough, Robert, Death on an Art Collector (New York: MysteriousPress.com, 2019) p. 81

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