From Pine View Farm

Personal Musings category archive

A Moment of Duh! 0

It came to me today, as I was reading about this, that the reason the white right-wing is against DEI is right there in the words themselves.

The opposite of DEI is UIE: uniformity, inequality, and exclusion.

Share

Stray Thought 0

I never expected that I would be living in a rogue state.

Share

Stray Thought 0

It should surprise no one that Donald Trump has set his sights on the Department of Education.

After all, he’s on record that he loves the poorly educated, so, clearly, in Trump world, it makes sense to promote poorer education.

Share

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 0

After years of warning us that the federal government cannot be trusted, the right-wing and the Republican Party have succeeded in giving us . . .

. . . a federal government that cannot be trusted.

Share

Stray Question 0

Why do so many persons seem to think that daylight savings time “makes more daylight” when all it does is move daylight about?

Share

Oxymoron of the Day 0

No, not “responsible gun owner.” That’s an oxymoron every day.

The oxymoron of the day is Trump administration.

Share

A. Enron 0

Q. What business are Republicans thinking of when they say, “Run the government like a business?”

Share

Because It Is. Okay? 0

I don’t care what closed captions say or what one of my favorite mystery writers writes.

“All right” is two words.

Furrfu.

Share

Stray Thought 0

There is no sign more convincing of the end of intelligent life than the sight of grown men walking around in cargo shorts in near-freezing weather.

Share

Gutting Out the Vote 0

It appears that Republicans did not have to gut out the vote.

Voters did it for them.

My Daddy taught me through example that voting is not a right.

It is a duty.

Via PoliticalProf, it would appear that a large portion of the citizenry was not taught that lesson or, perhaps, chose to ignore it.

I fear that they–and the rest of us who did vote–will pay dearly for their indolence and apathy.

Share

Recommended Listening 0

Harry Shearer’s interview with Dr. Stephanie Kelton, professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, in which they hold a balanced discussion of the federal deficit; In the course of their discussion, Kelton explodes many of the myths and falsehoods spread by the self-styled “deficit hawks.” The discussion starts at the 21-minute mark.

By the way, the rest of the show is also well worth a listen. I try not to miss an episode.

Share

Stray Thought 0

Today’s Republican Party does not only value party over country.

It values party over competence.

Share

“The Party of Personal Responsibility” 0

Despite what some pundits appear to (want us to) believe, Democrats are not to blame for what Republicans choose to do.

Share

Taking Exception 0

Methinks this cartoonist has got it exactly backwards as to who failed to learn from history.

And methinks we shall all pay a great price for that failure to learn.

Share

Recommended Viewing 0

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Ronald Howard.

The series is faithful to the spirit of the Canon, yet has a delightfully tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

I’m watching it on Tubi, but you can likely find it elsewhere.

Share

Signs of the Fall 0

I seldom look at the sport section of my local rag (except to read Bob Molinaro’s column, because he is a fine writer with a sharp pen and a wicked sense of humor). Even when I paid much more attention to sports than I do now, I was more interesting in watching competitions than in reading about them.

Nevertheless, as I leafed through the sports section on the way to the agony columns in yesterday’s paper (yes, paper, not electrons), something caught my eye.

My local rag now carries a syndicated column methinks no doubt subtly designed to suck people into covering sports betting.

We are a broken society.

Share

Stray Thought 0

When persons loudly and repeatedly crow about how patriotic they are, they probably aren’t.

Share

Dissonance 0

As I was preparing to hang the flag out–something I do for national holidays–I thought of others who fly the flag, maybe just not only on holidays as I do but every day, some of them even flying maybe multiple flags from their “I am an inadequate male” pick-up trucks.

I thought of how they congratulate themselves on being such patriots.

And I wondered, as they do that, do they think of the pledge, do they repeat the words

. . . and liberty and justice for all . . . .

to themselves, even as they vote for Donald Trump, the man who puts children in cages?

Share

The Rule of Flaw 0

I go to sleep worrying about the American dream.

I wake up to the American scream.

I am not sanguine.

Share

No, I Am Not Watching the Election Coverage 0

I am stressed out enough already from worrying that we are on the verge of the end of the American dream.

I’ll read about it tomorrow.

Share
From Pine View Farm
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.