From Pine View Farm

September, 2015 archive

Tag Fail 0

Is there some kind of special intelligence test you have to fail to become a school administrator?

The Mercer Island School District, sheepish at the controversy it set off, has again allowed the age-old kids’ game of tag on its school grounds.

Tag was banned on the island earlier this week, with district communications director Mary Grady telling Q13 news that “… students are expected to keep their hands to themselves. The rationale behind this is to ensure the physical and emotional safety of all students.”

Words fail me.

Yet more fail at the link.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness. You can’t handle the politeness.

Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators say Brown mishandled the weapon, discharging the round that struck Sovenski in the chest and killed her.

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A Parliament of Dunces Boobs 0

Why are persons who call themselves “conservative” obsessed with women’s breasts?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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“New Milk” 0

. . . because Bossie just can’t get it right. (Link fixed.)

Though Milkwise does contain dairy, it’s called a “milk beverage” because it does not have the “standard of identity” that milk has. Each brand of milk beverage can have different nutrition facts, whereas milk, regardless of brand, will have the same nutirtional information, like eight grams of protein per cup, Stephanie Ferrari, MS, RD of New England Dairy & Food Council said.

Our appetite for fake food is dismaying.

More about dietary doublespeak at the link.

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Loaves and Fishy 0

Noz links to the menu.

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QOTD 0

Bernard Baruch:

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

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Your Moment of Zen 0

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Woman to husband:  I used to like Donald Trump's lies and fabrications, but now I like Carly Fiorina's lies and fabrications more.

Via Juanita Jean.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Felonious frolics.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

See this report from the Field.

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Snark Tank 0

Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro has the numbers:

Remember when shark attacks were the summer’s big story? A recent report claims that in 2015, deaths worldwide from selfies gone horribly wrong are greater – 12 to 8 – than fatalities caused by underwater predators.

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iJunker 0

Hear the latest about the Apple car.

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The Jesus Party 0

Pope Francis holds

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Can You Give Me Sanctuary?
I Must Have a Place To Hide,
A Place for Me To Hide”
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Dan Casey considers causes, both proximate and approximate:

Anyone who would argue that the flow of migrants (from the Middle East–ed.) is not the responsibility of the United States would have to argue that the U.S. history of involvement in the Middle East since at least 2001 simply did not occur. That might be something that delusional or lying candidates for president, Democratic and Republican, might maintain, but people who live in the real world know better.

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Inside Pitch or Foul Ball? 0

Ron Littlepage has the play-by-play:

During a closed-door meeting with North Florida Republicans last month, (Florida state Rep. Janet–ed.) Adkins said, “Are there any reporters in here? Any reporters? OK, so inside baseball.”

She then threw a high, hard inside pitch, explaining how redesigning U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s congressional district on an east-west alignment instead of its current north-south serpentine shape would help end the Democrat’s long career.

Because that alignment would include a lot of prisons, and the African-American inmates housed there would not be able to vote even though they would be counted as residents for creating a minority access district.

Now that, if not voter fraud, is fraud with voters.

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QOTD 0

Charlie Pierce:

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

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Meta: Spam Comments 0

If you post a spam comment, I will find you and I will make you go away.

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Where Smart Is a Crime 4

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A Party Hoist on Its Own Petard 0

Amy Fried goes into detail.

Thoreau sums it up in a sentence.

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TSA Security Theatre 0

Ever wonder what happens when you give voyeurs badges?

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