From Pine View Farm

2019 archive

QOTD 0

Graham Greene:

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

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Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Tomorrow 0

When you need fellowship, join us.

When: Thursday, July 11, 6 p. m.

Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

Kate Rushin decodes de code.

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Consensus Census Con, Reprise 0

Three-card monte, this time with lawyers.

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Missing the Bus 0

Will Bunch.

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Lessons in How To Miss the Point 0

Frame One:

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

Well, this one’s not a snapshot. It’s a video, with commentary by David.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Man looks at television as male athlete celebrates and thinks,

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Bobbie Gentry:

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Unblocked Twits.

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In the Forecast: A Storm of Stupid 0

Farron marvels at Donald Trump’s claim that a cleaner environment will somehow harm poor and minority persons.

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An Historical Trumpling 0

Take the quiz.

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The Art of the Deal 0

Shorter Noz: You can’t have it both ways.

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No Correlation Whatsoever 0

General at the U. S. Military Industrial-Complex Headquarters looks at chart listing Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Central America asks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Nation of Immigrants 0

Frame One, titled

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your neighbors.

Court documents state that Larry Neal Jr, 31, tripped on a barbecue while walking in the apartment complex’s breezeway and bumped into a door. He started walking up the stairway when Thomas Clement, 30, opened his door with a gun in his hand. He yelled something at Neal while displaying his weapon.

Police say Neal turned around and headed down to the stairwell landing. Investigators say that Clement fired eleven shots at Neal. He was unarmed.

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Albert Einstein:

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Mendacious twits.

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Base Desires, Cruel Delight Dept., Reprise 0

Charles Blow recognizes a common undercurrent in the Trumpling. A snippet:

Trump spent millions on his vanity spectacle just weeks after his administration argued in court that immigrant children didn’t need to be provided soap and toothbrushes.

Stop thinking that this is only about partisanship or polarization. It’s the cruelty, Stupid. It has always been about cruelty: racial cruelty, gender cruelty, religious cruelty. It has always been about bending the rest of America, the rest of reality, really, into subordination to the white supremacist patriarchy.

Do please read the rest. He makes a persuasive case.

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