From Pine View Farm

2018 archive

Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Mike comments on Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Confederate cosplay (warning: language).

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“Appease in Our Time” 0

Tony Norman sees echoes of the past in Donald Trump’s decision to kowtow to Saudi Arabia and its murderous regime.

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Russian Impulses 0

Shaun Mullen is ever an optimist.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Get an unload of all the politeness.

When authorities arrived on the scene, it found one passenger suffered a gunshot wound to his torso and leg. It was caused by an unintentional shot by the rear seated passenger while he was unloading his handgun.

I am beginning to suspect that one of the qualifications for having a firearm is to fail an IQ test.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, Brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Above the Fray (or Merely Obtuse?) 0

Giant image of Donald Trump holding

Click for the original image.

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QOTD 0

Albert Camus:

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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Foul Ball 0

What the Booman said.

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Left on the Battlefield: Casualties of (Trump’s Trade) War 0

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Noses and Grindstones 0

Frame One:  Manager yelling at employee making burgers:  This is drive-through.  You have to work faster!  Faster!  Frame Two:  Manager to employee holding a reddened arm:  It's only a grease burn.  No need for the E. R.  Just put these condiment packs on it.  (Note:  True story.)  Frame Three:  Customer:  Are you stupid!  I said NO PICKLES!  Employee:  But you didn't say . . . Customer:  Get the manager!  Frame Four:  Employee tugging garbage bag to dumpster thinks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Decoding De Code Meets Twits on Twitter 0

El Reg reports:

In a paper distributed through ArXiv earlier this month, researchers Sophie van der Zee, Ronald Poppe, Alice Havrileck, and Aurelien Baillon – from Erasmus University, Utrecht University, and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan – describe how they found significant linguistic differences between factually accurate and inaccurate Trump tweets, and used this finding to construct a language-based lie detection model.

The accuracy of their model was about 73 per cent, making it better than a coin-toss, but far from foolproof in its evaluation.

More at the link.

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Ahistorical Monuments 0

Excerpt:

The argument is always made that removing these monuments is erasing history. The monuments themselves were put up to erase history.

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QOTD 0

Quintus Ennius:

They hate whom they fear.

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“Suffer the Children” 0

It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.

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Those Who Deny Science Are Condemned To Repeat It 0

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Trumpling in the air.

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Homecoming 0

Image:  Patch showing Republican Elephant wearing a helmet and holding a Corona beer labeled,

Via Juanita Jean.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Frame One:  Picture of office building labeled

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But the Emails! 0

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QOTD 0

Kerry Thornley:

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

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“If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another” 0

Field is suffering from scandal overload.

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