From Pine View Farm

2016 archive

QOTD 0

David Carr:

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

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Green Heron 0

A rare bird indeed (from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck).

Green heron

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How Stuff Works, the Girls’ Gauntlet Dept. 0

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The Difference between “Remembrance” and “Remembering” 0

Jim Wright.

Read it.

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Football uber Alles 0

Boy says,


Click to see the image at its original location.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who laud tyranny.

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Thom Spikes the Hype about TPP 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Then Two Must Be Better 0

Daniel W. Drezner offers a theory as to why Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton seem to be held to two different standards of conduct by our corporate media. I’ll try my hand at a short version:

Well, everyone already knows Trump is corrupt! That’s old news–no need to report on that.

It’s her we have to look at.

Follow the link and decide for yourself whether my summary is accurate.

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Light Bloggery 0

Taking a breather.

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QOTD 0

Voltaire:

The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.

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The Pushermen 0

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The Rendering 0

It would seem that everything gets rendered unto Caesar.

These persons worship no Jesus that I know.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud, Reprise 0

Peter St. Onge finds himself flabbergasted at the capability of North Carolina Republican election board members to believe stuff that ain’t.

Just read it.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Richard Eskow speaks with Ian Millhiser about how the legislative record in North Carolina documented North Carolina’s racist gut-out-the-vote motives and actions and how the Tarheel GOP is doubling-down on the deception.

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“Don’t Go There” 0

Dale Hartley cites several cities where sight-seers are sometimes seized with syndromes.

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“Free To a Good Home” 0

The Undomesticated.

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QOTD 0

Homer:

(Zeus, speaking to the Council of Olympians) See now, how many men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Butler, Samuel, trans., The Iliad and the Odyssey (San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011), p. 376.

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Bees 0

Bumblebee on flower

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Twits on Twitter 0

Resurrecting Reagan.

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“Secret Plans” 0

BadTux spills the secret:

The last time a Presidential candidate said he had a secret plan to end a war, it cost 25,000 American lives, the lives of half a million Laotians, Cambodians, and Vietnamese, roughly a trillion dollars in today’s money — and we lost anyhow . . . .

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