From Pine View Farm

July, 2023 archive

Sonya Sotomayor Sets the Standard 0

Kathryn Rubino reports as Above the Law.

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QOTD 0

Mary Tyler Moore, in the voice of Peggy Regan:

Sometimes lies sound more real than the truth. They’re usually planned.

The truth isn’t.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Precedented 0

Thom sees a pattern.

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A Record-Setting Year 0

Frame One:  Burning forest captioned

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It’s All about the Algorithm . . . 0

. . . but the hands of those who create the algorithms, no doubt, will be found to be clean in the unlikely event that this case ever comes to trial.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner,” yet another child.

I am coming to believe the “American civilization” is also an oxymoron.

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Lost in the Machine 0

Girl walking dog while staring into her phone starts to step into the street.  Dog sits donw to halt her as the dog thinks,

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Boy, am I glad that my kids were out of the house before this stuff came along.

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Presumed Guilty 0

I wonder just why oh why something like this could have happened?

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QOTD 0

Jack Shepard, in the voice of D. S. Wycliffe:

It’s a very exact science, isn’t it? Hindsight.

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Recommended Listening 0

The Window at the White Cat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

The reader is exceptionally skilled, and Mary Roberts Rinehart should be remembered much more than she is. She was an excellent writer.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Hot Car 0

Voice rises from a house saying,

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Twits on Twitter 0

Twits who don’t want to face up to historical fact.

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Establishmentarians 0

The Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction argues that public schools should indoctrinate students in (his brand of) Christianity:

Via C&L, where John Amato points out that Rufo is lying:

The Supreme Court made those rulings decades ago keeping religion out of public schools. The Biden administration has done nothing of the sort when it comes to “replacing American and biblical values with woke, anti-education values that tell students that they should treat their classmates differently depending on their race and sex and that they should be taught graphic sexual content at a young of an age as possible.” Those are Christopher Rufo inspired lies.

Follow the link for the rest of Amato’s commentary.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness is a family value.

We are an uncivil society.

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The Motion To Delay 0

Bank robber surrounded by polite kneels with his hands up while saying,

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Vaccine Nation 0

Incubators of infection.

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QOTD 0

Leonard Bacon:

I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman’s ignorance, however great.

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy 0

Climate change is no longer a prediction.

I fear that we are well past the tipping point, for it’s all around us every day.

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