From Pine View Farm

March, 2021 archive

The Threat 0

Mitch McConnell, holding a paper reading

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Vaccine Nation 0

The Rude One discusses an encounter with an acquaintance who declared that she was not going to get the COVID vaccine, citing all the “concerns” fomented by the right-wing disinformation complex. Here’s a bit of his piece:

This is the real cancel culture right here. It’s not Dr. Seuss shitcanning books with racist images. It’s not the genitals of Potato Heads. . . . No, the culture war that’s being fought that matters far more than any of that is on the minds of people when it comes to coronavirus and the vaccines. Then the disinformation being spread by the most-watched and -clicked conservative news sources is about life and death, not if you’ve got the sads because If I Ran the Zoo is hitting history’s dustbin.

Follow the link for the rude rest.

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QOTD 0

Virginia Woolf:

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Maskless Marauders 0

A mass transit marauder.

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Confluence 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Glenn Gerber takes a look at the recent shootings in Georgia and argues that attempts to find a single reason for them are wrong-headed and futile. He suggests that several factors contributed to them:

  • America’s Gun Problem
  • Systemic Racism
  • Systemic Sexism (and possibly–ed.)
  • Mental Health Issues

Follow the link for his detailed exploration of each one.

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“Old Times There Am Not Forgotten . . .’ 0

Frame One:  Republican Elephant says,

(And, yes, the jelly bean “literacy” test was a real thing.)

Image via Job’s Anger.

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Rand Gestures 0

Rand Paul goes viral on Dr. Fauci.

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Stacking the Deck 0

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Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0

Cancelling the cancellers.

The slaveholders lost the war, but won the peace, and they are determined not to let go.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Expose your child to politeness.

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QOTD 0

Caroline Graham, in the voice of Cully Barnaby:

I’ve no problem with with people who are insincerely pleasant. It’s the sincerely unpleasant who get up my nose.

Graham, Caroline, A Ghost in the Machine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), p. 221.

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Misdirection Play, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0

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Disparate Treatment 0

Two vials of COVID vaccine, like water coolers under Jim Crow, a huge one labeled

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Tony Norman.

Just read it.

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But How Will Anyone Know? 0

Noz wants to know.

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All the News that Fits 0

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In Gratitude 0

Title:  Credit Where Credit Is Due.  Image:  Man says to Donald Trump,

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Treadmill 0

The Seattle Time’s Danny Westneat writes that, for him at least, the honeymoon with working from home is over. A snippet:

The findings (in surveys of workers-from-home–ed.) are wide-ranging, with pros and cons, but one main take-away jumped out at me: The workweek got longer, by about three to four hours per week.

(snip)

The reality of remote work seems, to me, kind of like when people got smart home devices like Alexa in order to access the internet, but it turned out it was the device that was accessing them. Who is it really benefiting?

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QOTD 0

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

The world will never be without sin, poverty, and attorneys.

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Recommended Listening 0

Kings, Queens, and Pawns, the Librivox audio book recording of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s memoir of her experiences as a war correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post on the Belgian front during World War I.

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