Contact Me


DRINKING LIBERALLY


Virginia Beach
Second Thursday of the Month

Croc's 19th Street Bistro, 6 p. m.
620 19th St.
Virginia Beach, VA (map)

Drinking Liberally Website

Join us at Meetup.
Follow the conversation at Facebook.

Just the Facts, Ma ‘am

AP News Fact Check
PolitiFact
Snopes
WVEC Verify

PVF Endorsements

Missing Links

In the latest migration to a new virtual private server, some of the links to images in the earliest posts to this blog were broken.  If you encounter one of these broken links, please let me know. I have backups and can restore the images.



Hacker Public Radio

Podcasts for the community,
by the community.

Support Marriage Equality

This blog supports marriage equailty,

Patriot Gamers

Stop pretending that your racism is patriotism.

Image via Job’s Anger

Support the EFF



Electronic Frontier Foundation

Vote in the real world.

There’s only one person who agrees with me on everything, and, as I’m not running for office, that person is not on the ballot.

Meta

Search This Site

Registration

Learn more about registration

Pages

Music that Swings

Old Time Radio

Reading Rainbow

Required Reading

Updates from the Field

RSS Delaware Liberal

RSS Eschaton

RSS Progress Pond (was The Booman Tribune)

RSS Rubber Hose

Blogroll

Categories

Archives by Month



Creative Commons License
From Pine View Farm by Frank Bell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.pineviewfarm.net.
From Pine View Farm

QOTD category archive

QOTD 0

Sergei Lukyanenko:

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can’t push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves. No matter what the circumstances of life are, there are no justifications and there never will be any. But people look for justifications and they find them. All people have been taught to do that, and they’ve all proved diligent pupils.

Share
August 1, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Eldridge Cleaver:

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Share
July 31, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

H. L. Mencken:

The public…demands certainties…But there are no certainties.

Share
July 30, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Baltasar Gracian:

Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Share
July 29, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Pauline Kael:

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Share
July 28, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:

The Church loves a repentant sinner . . . good for business.

Share
July 27, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Edmund Burke:

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Share
July 26, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Judith Kelman:

Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

Kelman, Judith, “Introduction,” Stout, Rex, Curtains for Three (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. vi.

Share
July 25, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Plutarch:

Character is simply habit long continued.

Share
July 24, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

C. S. Lewis:

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Share
July 23, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Suketu Mehta:

Essentially what I said was that people are coming to rich countries from poor countries not because they want to, but because rich countries had stolen the futures of poor countries.

Share
July 22, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Pat Toomey:

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

Aside:

We have an entire political party–his own–dedicated to proving him right.

Share
July 21, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Clay Shirky:

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

(And not always for the better.)

Share
July 20, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Saul Alinsky:

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Share
July 19, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Edward Petherbridge, in the voice of Lord Peter Wimsey:

The only kind of wisdom that has any social use is the knowledge of one’s own limitations.

Share
July 18, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Anthony Trollope:

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Share
July 17, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Daniel Bell:

What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

Share
July 16, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

William O. Douglas:

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

Share
July 15, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

William Blake:

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Share
July 14, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

QOTD 0

Nadine Gordimer:

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Share
July 13, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
« Previous page
Next page »
Powered by Wordpress
From Pine View Farm
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.