From Pine View Farm

November, 2019 archive

QOTD 0

Alfred Lunt:

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Facebook Frolics 0

The Portland Press-Herald takes a stand against anti-vaxx frolickers.

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Destination 0

Picture of White House with all the roads labeled

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Hannity Sanity 0

Stephanie Sarkis offers some suggestions for dealing with Donald Trump, Fox News, and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers.

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A Case of Health Some-Call-It Insurance 0

David discusses increases in the cost of his health coverage and explains why free market concepts don’t apply to health care.

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Three Card Monte, Disruptor Dept. 0

What Atrios said.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

More stuff you can’t make up.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

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Geeking Out 0

Listening to The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume on the QMMP media player on the Plasma Desktop on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Warning: Mild language.

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“It’d Be a Shame If Something Happened to Your Thanksgiving” 0

Donald Trump on podium pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey.  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Candidates Debate 0

Via C&L.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Packing heat is always such a good idea.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpled at the cinema.

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Arms Deal 0

Republican Elephant putting its foot on

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Suffer the Children 0

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Ricky Gervais:

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

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The Perennial Question 0

Why does anyone brook David Brooks?

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Statues of Limitations 0

In The American Scholar, Robin Kirk, who served on a committee about Confederate monuments for the city of Durham, North Carolina, considers the import and future of those monuments to treason. Here’s a tiny little bit, in which he discusses the toppling of the statue that led to that committee (emphasis added):

Many residents, especially newcomers, had barely noticed the statue or understood what it symbolized. But for black Durham, the silent sentinel had been a constant reminder of the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow.

I commend the article to your attention. It’s a long read, but a worth-while one.

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