From Pine View Farm

June, 2024 archive

How Inaction Becomes Action 0

Michael in Norfolk.

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Establishmentarians 0

Jimmy Kimmel highlights the hypocrisy.

If the Scribes and Pharisees of the Gospels had had a political party, it would have looked like today’s Republ–oh, never mind.

Video via C&L, which has commentary.

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It’s All about the Algorithm 0

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One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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He’s a Real Big Man . . . 0

. . . or so he would have you think.

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QOTD 0

Gene Kelly, in the voice of Jerry Mulligan:

Civilization has a natural resistance against improving itself.

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

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The Rule of Lawless 0

In an article at the Idaho State Journal, Jesse Robison posits that today’s Republican Party’s disdain for the rule of law is–er–somewhat disquieting.

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Courting Disaster 0

The latest on loose Cannon law.

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Establishmentarians 0

Emma and the crew delight in CNN’s Boris Sanchez’s unrelenting grilling of establishmentarian Lauren Ventrella’s duplicitous doubletalk.

Aside:

I find it somewhat disconcerting that Ventrella considers an English text of a commandment that Sanchez displayed on the screen to be the “most historical” version of it. As far as I remember, the commandments had been around for two or three millennia before being rendered into English.

Then, again, we are a society of stupid, which idolizes the ignorant and venerates the vacuous.

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Disparate Treatment 0

Frame One:  Joe Biden says,

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Republican Thought Police 0

Writing at the Kansas City Star, Joe Kohlburn offers an explanation for recent mobilization of the Republican Thought Police SWAT teams across the country:

Book challenges are never about protecting children. They are about protecting parents from the reality that the world around them is changing.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Republican Family Values 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

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QOTD 0

W. Edwards Deming:

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

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Foxy Shady 0

Seth takes a closer look at how Fox News is laying groundwork its coverage of next week’s debate.

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Psychological Projection Anyone? 0

Man standing between a building advertising a drag show and a church where a man with several children stands in the door.  Man points to drag show building and asks,

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Looking for some examples?

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Monetization Nation, Reprise 0

Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire, follows the money (emphasis in the original):

Money matters: The Big 12 reportedly is exploring a naming-rights agreement with Allstate that could pay the league between $30 and $50 million a year. It’s speculated that under the deal, the conference would be renamed the “Big Allstate Conference” or the “Allstate 12.” If Anheuser-Busch sponsored a conference, would it be called the “Busch League”?

The market: In August, Ohio State is making each of its first four football practices available to a few hundred fans for $50 a ticket. You may have noticed that everything in college sports is for sale.

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Foxy Shady 0

David dissects the dissimulation (Warning: Short commercial at the end).

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The Pact 0

Kim Jong-Un:  Then it's agreed that we form an alliance to resist the United States.  Vladimir Putin:  At least until it becomes a dictatorship.

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Establishmentarians 0

PoliticalProf notes an unintended inference.

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A Pillow of the Community 0

Judge to Mike Lindell: Your pillow has no case.

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