From Pine View Farm

2022 archive

Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.

Aside:

The percentage of the population that is transgender is minimal, almost infinitesimal. I don’t get the right-wing furor about it.

Oh, wait a minute.

I get it.

It’s red flag for the haters.

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True Believers 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier marvels at the delusional and the deluded.

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True Believer 0

Man watching television.  Newcaster says,

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House of Wax 0

Above the Law’s Joe Patrice has–er–questions about the purported charity status of Professor Amy Wax’s new legal defense fund.

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QOTD 0

Keith Jackson:

Football is not a contact sport, it is said: it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

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Report from the Field 0

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Florida Man 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells the tale of Captain Florida.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Plutocrat holding paaper reading

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Closing Books, Closing Minds 0

At AL.com, Frances Coleman wonders why the right-wing has decided that banning books is the new in thing. Here’s a tiny bit of her article (emphasis added):

Why is it that these days, there’s a flurry of lists of banned books and pressure to suppress any idea that’s uncomfortable? I believe the reason is fear. There are people among us who are afraid of any idea that contradicts their view of reality.

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Monkee Business 0

Joe Patrice is a believer.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Keeping the peace with his piece.

An armed man interrupted an argument between three (12 and 13 year old–ed.) girls on Storms Avenue Monday night and struck one of the girls in the face and then threatened to shoot onlookers, authorities said.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Eden.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Will Bunch opines that Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate seems to one of those risers again.

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QOTD 0

Virginia Satir:

Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

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No Place To Hide 0

Some good news from Bruce Schneir.

Personally, I keep the GPS (Google calls it “location services” turned off on my Android devices unless I have a positive need for it, which is almost never. That means trackers can know my general location, sure, but they don’t know whether I’m in the drug store or the hardware store.

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The Graham Cracker 0

Field thinks that we–well, he says the media, but I think it’s not just them–may have become numb to the outrageous.

Follow the link and decide for yourself.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Brotherly politeness.

We are a broken society.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Woman speaking to empty auditorium at the

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“Cancun Cruz” 0

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Water Deviltry 0

Nor any brain to think . . . .

Last week, a small Central Texas county just west of Austin made national news after its entire elections staff quit their jobs, leaving the department’s cupboard bare just a few months from the midterms.

(snip)

But a new report from Votebeat and the Texas Tribune shows that the harassment and threats that ultimately drove Gillespie County’s elections department staffers to leave their jobs stemmed specifically from activists invested in conspiracies related to fluoride in local drinking water.

We are a society of stupid.

Details at the link.

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Closing Books, Closing Minds 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at the motivation for the right-wing’s current book-banning frenzy. A snippet:

Hence the current efforts to rid schools and public libraries of any books and information that might cause little Johnny or Susie to realize they have been taught a lot of bunk at home and in the churches they are compelled to attend.

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