From Pine View Farm

December, 2022 archive

Disinformation Nation 0

Two frogs in sauce pan.  One says,

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Coincidentally this very same day, AL.com’s Cameron Smith (who I think calls himself a Republican) dissects one technique used to boil that pot.

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The Nuisance 0

Donald Trump says,

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Muskrat Love 0

Grung_e_Gene argues that Elon Mush has dropped his mask. Methinks he makes a pretty good case.

(Not that it fit all that tightly in the first place.)

Here’s a bit of evidence supporting Grung’s theory.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

If one standard is good, two must be better.

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QOTD 0

Edith Hamilton:

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life.

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Recommended Viewing 0

The P. D. James mystery, A Taste for Death.

I have watched several Inspector Dagliesh mysteries, and this is easily one of the best.

If you can find it, watch it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Originalist Sin 0

At The Sacramento Bee, Josh Gohlke sums up the strategy (emphasis added):

Befitting their elite educations and long practice in the dark arts of sophistry, the former president’s faction on the Supreme Court threatens to undo the document by subtler means: reading it so literally as to render it meaningless.

Follow the link for the back story.

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The Lake Effect 0

These folks worship a God in their own craven image.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another responsible gun owner–oh, well, you know the rest.

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

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A Freudian Slip-Up 0

They said they didn’t see them.

How the heck could they have missed them? I saw them the first time I saw that political cartoon, for a political cartoon is what it is.

My guess is that, just as when they look at day-to-day life, they don’t see what they don’t want to see.

Furrfu.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Swift hoax frolics.

Anti-social media strikes again.

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QOTD 0

Ursula K. Le Guin:

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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An Oxymoron Inaction 0

Frame One:  Lola says to her dog,

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Afterthought:

Like “social” media, virtual “reality” isn’t.

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Taking Bread 0

Speaking of doing unto others . . . .

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The Pyrite Rule 0

Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is somewhat taken aback that evangelical they-call-themselves-Christians seem to have rewritten the “Golden Rule” so that it reads simply, “Do unto others.”

In a scene channeling the parable of the Good Samaritan, a man in the desert says,

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Sinema Cinema: “It’s All about the Benjamins” 0

Afterthought:

Methinks Krysten Sinema has the grift of grab.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness was in the bag.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Freebie frolics.

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Stood Up 0

Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and Lady Justice gather at a Mar-a-Lago restaurant table holding menus that say refer to questions about January 6, classified documents, and white nationalist racism.  Waiter says,

Via Juanita Jean.

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