From Pine View Farm

April, 2021 archive

Moneyball 0

E. J. Montini provides the pay-by-pay commentary.

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Numberless 0

Image One:  Picture of automatic pistol labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Vaccine Nation 0

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Facebook Frolics 0

“It’s complicated” frolics.

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Addicted to Lead 0

The Portland Press-Herald’s Victoria Hugo-Nadal thinks we need an intervention.

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Maskless Marauders 0

Florida Woman.

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QOTD 0

Lawrence Dobkin, in the voice of Ellery Queen:

I dedicate this program to the fight against crime. Not only crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but also crimes of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship. Crimes against America.

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The Incivil Engineer 0

Republican Elephant standing atop house of cards saying,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness crashes the party.

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A Notion of Immigrants, Delution Delusion Dept. 0

And, in the same vein . . . .

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The Coke in the Hat 0

Florida Woman.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Because it worked so well the last time . . . .

Via Mock, Paper, Scissors.

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Miss-Calculation 0

More stuff you can’t make up.

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Running Its Course 0

Man racing around a track shaped like a coronavirus passing signs that read

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QOTD 0

Samuel Gompers:

The man who receives five thousand dollars a year wants six thousand dollars a year, and the man who owns eight or nine hundred thousand dollars will want a hundred thousand dollars more to make it a million, while the man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

For context, this was said in 1890.

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Recommended Viewing 0

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, episodes S3 E11 and S3 E12.

They’re not science fiction. They’re prophecy.

You can view them on Netflix, and likely other services also.

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Gutting Out the Vote, the Race to Gooberville Dept. 0

Dan Ruth looks at recent proposals in Florida to restrict access to the ballot box and asks:

Does anyone honestly believe Tallahassee will allow itself to be out-goobered by Georgia? Georgia! Really?

Follow the link for his answer.

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A Question of Identity 0

Dominic J. Packer and Jay Van Bavel explore why bystanders just stand by and onlookers just look on.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness starts at home.

A father was making lunch for his children in their Baker home Wednesday when the day turned tragic: A gun, recently purchased for protection, somehow landed in the hands of a curious toddler, who pulled the trigger before anyone could intervene.

And so it continues . . . .

The cycle of gun sales

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Old News 0

David talks sense about immunization records, which Republicans are attempting to demonize as “vaccine passports.”

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