From Pine View Farm

Beyond Beyond the Fringe category archive

The Wedding Industrial Complex 0

Seth salutes a couple who defied the wedding industrial complex.

Share

Twits on Twitter X Offenders 0

Sauce for the goose . . . .

Share

“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0

Rebecca Watson is skeptical of those who believe in UFOs. Watch here or read the transcript.

My own opinion, which I may have expressed previously in these electrons, is that any civilization intelligent enough to circumvent the laws of physics* and master interstellar flight is intelligent enough to avoid humans for the poisonous, spiteful, petty, vindictive creatures that we are.

___________________

*There’s a reason Gene Roddenberry came up with “warp speed.”

Share

Pet Sociopathylogy 0

Stanley Coren cites research that confirms what you already knew. Cats are sociopaths.

Aside:

We have two cats. And we have had other cats in the past.

As far as I can tell, all they care about is getting their own way.

Share

The New Meat-Up App 0

Share

“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0

The Los Angeles Times’s Michael Hiltzik points out that facts will never satisfy those committed to conspiracy theories.

Share

A Notion of Immigrants 0

Just mean for the sake of mean.

Share

The New National Sport 0

Title:  American Roulette.  Image:  Counter labeled

Click for the original image.

Share

Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that is not scripture.

That is Republican policy.

Share

Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

I must say, I’m relieved that my days of hopping on airplanes once or twice a month are behind me.

Afterthought:

I’m so old that I can remember when traveling on an airline was a pleasant experience, when seats were wide enough to accommodate normal anatomy, and when one’s fellow travelers behaved themselves in a civilized manner.

Share

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

A court rules on the right to be rude.

Share

Ballooning Reports 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Robert Bartholomew suggests that, based on past history (as opposed, I guess, to future history), we should be prepared for a a bunch of bogus balloon sightings in the next few months. An excerpt from his article:

I have been researching these scares for over four decades and conducted several studies involving aerial objects. Just before the outbreak of World War I, there were mass sightings of German Zeppelins in the skies in many Commonwealth countries that corresponded to the known positions of stars and planets that were misperceived as a menacing technology. One key driver of these scares is the fallibility of human perception which is notoriously unreliable and subject to error.

Share

Karen Karen-Like 0

The stupid. It burns.

Share

A Case of Identity 0

At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire delves into the strange and twisty case of the DIY voter ID.

What makes it strange is that, despite what could be called a fraudulent identification document, there seems to have been no intent to defraud, but, rather, an attempt to comply.

Share

A Tale of the Trumpling 0

The Washington Post’s Stephanie McCrummen follows an Alice down the Trumpian rabbit hole.

No excerpt or summary can do this report justice.

Just read it. It is–er–disquieting.

Share

The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Frame One:  Rat says,

Click for the original image.

Share

“A Fool for a Client” 0

At Above the Law, Jill Switzer rounds up some clients who make lawyers question their career choice.

Share

Lies and Lying Liars 0

And this surprises you how?

(Not, mind you, that I think Washington, D. C., is some kind of paragon of purity. What place is?)

Share

Breaking Wind 0

What’s with Donald Trump’s weird hangup with windmills?

Share

Form over Function 0

A great moment in nitpicking.

Share