From Pine View Farm

September, 2019 archive

A Notion of Immigrants 0

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Leaving the Nest 0

Title:  The Hawk.  Image:  John Bolton as a hawk being snatched our the nest by a Twitter logo.

Via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.

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QOTD 0

Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Where There’s Smoke There’s Liar 0

Title:  Vape Flavor du Jour.  Image:  Donald Trump on portico of White House with vape pen emitting clouds of chaos.

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Purity Tests 0

I have from time to time mentioned by contempt for liberal political purists and their purity tests. You know who I mean–the kind of persons who throw their votes away on the Jill Steins and Ralph Naders or, worse, don’t vote at all, because the Democratic candidate does not match their particular favorite shade of blue.

I now pass the gavel to El Jefe.

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The Institutionalization of Sadism 0

That’s what happens when cruelty becomes routine . . . .

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The Flight of the Emolument 0

Plane labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Low Fact Diet 0

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

Trumpling Puerto Rico.

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QOTD 0

Vaughan Monroe:

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

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The Clothes Shake the Man 0

Title:  Yoga Pants, Destroyers of Western Civilization.  Frame One:  A conservative pundit recently dissed them (Image:  Pundit says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness takes practice.

A 21-year-old man was accidentally shot and killed in Selah on Friday night while practicing disarming techniques (from Youtube videos–ed.), according to a Selah Police Department news release.

(snip)

While the gun was initially unloaded during their practice, they later reloaded the gun and failed to unload it before once again practicing the techniques, the news release said.

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And, from the “This Surprises You How?” Dept. . . . . 0

Shaun Mullen highlights a disturbing pattern.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Wardrobe frolics.

I am beginning to think that there is nothing more routinely an pettily anti-social than “social” media.

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Trumpled Science 0

Wilbur Ross instructs government scientists:  Per the administration, Dorian threatened Alabama, nukes can stop hurricanes, climate change is a Chinese hoax, Mars is part of the moon, windmills cause cancer, it's smart to stare directly at an eclipse, the sun revolves around the Earth, Pluto's a dog, and our top priority is figuring out Goofy . . . .

Via Job’s Anger.

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That Was the Weekend That Was 0

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Succession Planning 0

PoliticalProf.

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QOTD 0

Anthony Trollope:

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

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“Feed Me” 0

Venus Flytrap

The Venus Flytrap can use each trap only once, so it keeps growing new ones.

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