From Pine View Farm

Intentional Ignorance 0

Desert landscape with a bright sun labeled

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Fun fact from the Las Vegas Sun:

After one of the warmest, driest winters on record and a historically arid quarter-century, the (Colorado–ed.) river’s two biggest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are at 29.5% and 23.5%, respectively, of their capacities.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more responsible gun owners discharge their responsibities whilst traversing the nation’s byways.

We are a society of stupid.

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Sauce for the Goose 0

How about some sauce for the gander?

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QOTD 0

Longinus:

Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

Follow the link for the article itself.

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Strict Destructionists 0

At my local rag, Doug Mercado argues that the current federal maladministration seems to have overlooked the bit in the preamble to the U. S. Constitution that states that one of the purposes of the union is to “promote the general welfare.”

Methinks he may be onto something.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.

Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.

Now they have taken it over.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Demotional frolics;

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All the News that Fits 0

Driftglass looks back at the history of hate radio and reminds us that dis coarse discourse did not get so coarse by accident.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner.”

Another exposed portable phallus.

Another child in another hospital.

Another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.

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QOTD 0

Donald Grant Mitchell:

I find no man so disagreeable to meet with, as one who knows everything.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Emperor Zero 0

Donald Trump as the Roman Emperor presiding over the UFC games.  Ons spectator says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0

Susan Estrich debunks Trump’s bunk about the California vote count.

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All the News that Fits 0

Farron explains why Walter Cronkite would be ashaned of what his network has become. (Warning: Mild language.)

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Man labeled

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

In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.

This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).

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*Mark Twain.

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Phoning It in . . . 0

. . . to a bad actor.

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QOTD 0

Joyce Carol Oates:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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