From Pine View Farm

April, 2017 archive

Damn Computers 0

Expect you to obey the rules.

Grumble grumble grumble.

Most of the posts I had lined up for today don’t seem to be visible. There were several posts between “Career Move” and “And Now for Something Completely Different.” Figuring this out requires parsing the syntax of each one.

It seems to have something to do with this embed, for it and the some of the posts following it are not visible. Then posts are visible again. I previewed each post individually and each one worked, so it’s definitely something meta.

Blogging can be a most annoying avocation.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 0

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Inside Derp 2

Josh Marshall muses about Bill O’Reilly’s last ditch strategy to keep his job at Fox News: to claim that he was the victim of an insidious liberal conspiracy, when, in fact, the campaign to get him fired was overt and public. Indeed, as Marshall points out, maximum publicity was its strategy. A snippet (emphasis added):

In many ways, there’s a much, much more important story going forward about the fact that the people deciding O’Reilly’s fate had known for many years about his behavior and happily tolerated it. But why would O’Reilly think that this email (alleging the conspiracy–ed.) amounted to anything? I would submit that in this final moment, O’Reilly was duped by the ‘war on christmas,’ liberal media bias dumbshit victimology racket he had been selling on his show for two decades: comically melodramatic, victim-preening nonsense aimed at whipping up feelings of resentment and rage. In other words, he was deluded in these final moments of his cable TV existence by his own racket! His goose had long been cooked. But this was his final undoing.

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Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture, it’s GOP policy.

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Health Care Fundamental 0

Atrios states the core issue.

If you get sick, should you just die if you aren’t rich?

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Facebook Frolics 0

The adventure of the purloined post.

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A Trumpled Picnic 1

Skeleton wearing Trump hat and tee shirt toastong a marshmnallow at a mushroom cloud.

Also, too.

Via Juanita Jean.

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All the News that Fits 0

In the wake of Bill O’Reilly’s departure from Fox News, Ben Boychuck of the Sacramento Bee reflects on his choice to eschew television news. A snippet:

About 10 years ago, I stopped watching cable and network news regularly. Fifteen years before that, I heard a lecture by Ray Bradbury, the late, great novelist and author of “The Martian Chronicles” and “Fahrenheit 451.” I don’t remember what the lecture was about, but one digression stuck with me:

“Never, ever watch television news,” Bradbury said. “Especially local news. You’ll think the world is coming to an end.”

I can’t remember the last time I watched television news (except for looking at pictures during a snowstorm0. Life is too short.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

Warning: Language.

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