From Pine View Farm

November, 2021 archive

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Charles Fourier:

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

Aside:

He wrote that a century and a half ago . . . .

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The Plea 0

Republican Elephant holding AK-47 looking at bleeding of

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

It looks like Cape May and Wildwood, where we used to vacation when I lived in the Philly area, are doomed have a less than propitious future.

In these parts, spring and fall have almost disappeared. From being a matter of months, they have become a matter of weeks.

When I was a young ‘un, growing up not far from where I write this, temperatures would gradually get cooler from September to November, usually with a bit of Indian summer around Thanksgiving. Then the cold weather would set in. Frosts were common from late October on.

No more.

We haven’t had a frost yet, and, last week, I drove the recycling to the recycling center with the top down on my car. And that warm day was not an exception.

This week, we are wrapping ourselves in down, but we still haven’t had a frost.

I fear we are well past the tipping point.

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A Running Man? 0

Thom talks with Dr. Mary Trump about the prospect of Donald Trump’s running for president again and about the future of the Republican Party. Spoiler: She is not sanguine.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Image One:  Picture of Colin Kaepernick, captioned

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Supply Change 0

Jim Wright sees for himself.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

He wants his pizza and he wants it now, thank you very much.

And, in more news of the polite (Warning: too stupid for words).

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

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Things To Be Thankful For 0

Frame One:  Things to be Thankful for this Holiday Season* (*Thankfulness not guaranteed).

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Niall Ferguson:

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Via Le Show.

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As the Twig Is Bent . . . . 0

. . . and, boy! these twigs are bent.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Fraudulent frolics.

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A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished 0

A jury gets one right

Aside:

These days, that seems to be a rarity.

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A Pillow of the Community 0

It seems that Mike Lindell can’t find a fluffer.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The cycle of politeness.

We are a broken society.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Medieval craftsman stands next to newly-built outhouse saying,

Via Politicalprof.

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Livy:

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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None Dare Call It Terrorism . . . 0

. . . but it is.

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Vaccine Nation, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

Warning: Short commercial at the end.

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