From Pine View Farm

August, 2019 archive

And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Legacy 0

Faye Flam notes that some would call the current geological epoch the “Anthropocene”; she argues that they have a point. A nugget:

That’s no brag, because most of the changes we’re making to our planet are embarrassing.

We’ve caused huge shifts in the plants and animals sharing the planet with us, driven many species to extinction, left a layer of radioactive fallout from exploding nuclear bombs, accidentally changed the composition of our atmosphere, and left a layer of plastic that will in all likelihood still be around in a million years.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Exercise politeness upon the nation’s byways.

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Republican Family Values, Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept. 0

Caption:  The Trump administration eliminates protection that lets immigrants avoid deportation while they receive life-saving medical treatment.  Image:  Ambulance backed up to the edge of a cliff as attendant kicks little brown girl in hospital gown over the edge.

Via Job’s Anger.

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“Mad Men Doing Mad Men Things” 0

Mike discusses the fires in the Amazon rain forest. (Warning: Mike’s upset. There’s more language than usual. I don’t agree with everything Mike says, but I think his tirade is worth a fair hearing.)

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

A busload of Trumpling.

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A Hard Blow and a Blowhard 0

Workers at the National Hurricane Center.  One is speaking into the phone,

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QOTD 0

Jim Hightower:

The water won’t clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

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“Soft Authoritarianism” 0

Werner Herzog’s Bear explains what that is.

Please follow the link to read his post. No excerpt or summary can do it justice.

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Forests’ Prime Evil 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Backpackin’ heat.

According to Pittsburgh public safety, police were called to Fort Duquesne Boulevard and 7th Street a little after 10 p.m., where officer found a man who told them he had been shuffling through his backpack at a bus stop when he accidentally triggered the gun, shooting himself.

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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Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0

. . . and get treated worse than a dog.

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The Watcher in Your Pocket 0

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The Climates They Are a-Changing, Inaction Dept. 0

Donald Trump says,

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QOTD 0

Willa Cather:

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Randy Rainbow “interviews” Donald Trump. (Warning: Some language.)

Via C&L.

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The Lies of the Land 0

David discusses the pathological nature of Donald Trump’s lying, illustrating his points with personal experiences with liars he has known.

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Twits on Twitter 0

If a snowflake melts on Twitter, does it leave a puddle?

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Introduce your children to politeness.

The girl’s father was showing someone his gun when he accidentally fired the weapon, police reports said. A bullet struck the (20 month old-ed.) girl, police reports say.

The girl was conscious and breathing when paramedics took her to an area hospital by ambulance. She was listed in serious but stable condition about an hour after the shooting took place, Cleveland police said.

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Devolution 0

Frame One:  Lars:  It checks out.  Jeffrey:  Yeah, but I dunno.  Danae:  Uh, what's going on?  Jeffrey:  Lars has a solution to our problem with climate change.  Frame Two:  Danae:  Great.  Tell me about it.  Jeffrey:  Well, Lars can have the secret satellites he has around the Earth emit a constant E. M. P.  Lars:  Just for a century or so.  Frame Three:  Lars continues:  Electro magnetic pulse.  It knocks out anything electronig, which would bring all industry and our civilization to a halt.  Of course, that would lead to mass pamic, rioting, and food wars, bringing up to near extinction while the Earth normalizes.  Frame Four:  Danae:  Oh.  OK . . . as long as I can get an internet connection, I'm good with that.  Frame Five:  Lars:  I thought you were just being hyperbolic when you said you live in the anti-science epoce.  Jeffrey:  Whis is ironically fitting for getting sent back to the middle ages.

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