From Pine View Farm

June, 2025 archive

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Dis coarse discourse is clearly going to pot.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Over at C&L, John Amato hears a rhyme from two decades ago.

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*Mark Twain.

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“An Armed Society Is Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner.”

Another unsecured portable phallus.

Another child in another hospital.

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QOTD 0

Sinclair Lewis:

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Chorus 0

Putin says,

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Facebook Frolics 0

At the EFF, Lena Cohen and Rory Mir explore the Zuckerborg’s latest efforts to spy on you and offer some suggestions for combating it. A snippet:

Meta’s tracking pixel was secretly communicating with Meta’s apps on Android devices. This violates a fundamental security feature (“sandboxing”) of mobile operating systems that prevents apps from communicating with each other. Meta got around this restriction by exploiting localhost, a feature meant for developer testing. This allowed Meta to create a hidden channel between mobile browser apps and its own apps.

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Mask Bull 0

Red-hatted Trump supporter demanding that persons take off their masks, unless they are ICE agents.

Via Job’s Anger.

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“The Same Thing Harder . . . .” 0

Farron is not sanguine.

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Running the Government like a Business 0

Apparently, Donald Trump thinks that he has the power to sell U. S. residency and maybe even citizenship to the highest bidder.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Settle disagreements over parking spaces with politeness.

Authorities in Calera (Alabama–ed.) are investigating after police say a woman fired shots at a car in the parking lot of a retail store, allegedly over a parking space. . . .

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QOTD 0

Isabel Allende:

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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The Hostile Takeover 0

Gene Collier looks at the Trump maladministration’s attempt to stage a military invasion of Los Angeles and is not sanguine. A snippet:

That quaint ’90s notion of appropriate governmental response seems almost idyllic against the post-modern methods, in which Trump contorts reality to align with his own political psychosis and responds only in the way that plays to his political advantage, regardless of the outcome.

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The Screening 0

Woman checking in at International Arrivals at a U. S. airport hands her passport to ICE agent.  Agent:  What is the reason for your visit.  Woman:  I'm a tourist on summer holiday.  Agent:  Hmmm.  Our database shows that in 2018 you like an Instagram critical of the President's necktie.  I see your in-flight movie choice was Walter Salles' *I'm Still Here* about Brazilian dictatorship.  And you had a friendly conversation with your seatmate who has already been deported the Libya for supporting gay marriage in an AOL instant message in 2001.  (Turns to another agend)  Bobby, another terrorist!  Second agent:  On it, sir.

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Facebook Frolics 0

In a column discussing how to deal with fraudulent frolics (in this case relating to Alabama football) on the Zuckberborg, Michael Casagrande makes this observation, which methinks is quite accurate:

The billion-dollar company clearly doesn’t care if it’s growing a field of weeds where a garden once lived.

Follow the link for context.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

David discusses Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments about how Trump’s tariffs may tank the economy. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Brine for your brain? It’s the real dill.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Peggy Boyd is seeking justice after her paint horse, Clancy, was fatally shot in the head during the night. This incident has left Boyd devastated and searching for answers.

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The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the suspicious death of Clancy. Boyd reached out to NonStop Local for help in solving the mystery of who could have shot her horse. “To ever think that someone deliberately or accidentally shoots your horse right in the kill spot on their head and they’re dead it was very heartbreaking and he was my heart horse, my unicorn,” she said.

We are a broken society.

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QOTD 0

Jim Backus, in the voice of Thurston Howell III:

. . . when people are in trouble, they make concessions and promises. When their trouble is over, they forget those fancy promises.

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