From Pine View Farm

Because It Is. Okay? 0

I don’t care what closed captions say or what one of my favorite mystery writers writes.

“All right” is two words.

Furrfu.

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QOTD 0

Hugh Gaitskell:

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

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Missing in Inaction 0

The Editorial Board of my local rag looks at statements by a number of Republican regarding the fires in California and editorializes that

Withholding relief from California fire victims would be unconscionable

The editorial itself is behind the paywall, but its title summarizes it nicely.

But that leads to a larger question:

    Where is the evidence that today’s Republican Party has a conscience?
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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but If Often Rhymes”* 0

PoliticalProf hears a rhyme from a century ago.

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*Mark Twain.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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Scott Maxwell parses the perfidy of Florida AG Ashley Moody.

No excerpt or summary can do his article justice. Just go read it.

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Facebook Frolics 0

At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire finds himself less than impressed with Mark Zuckerberg’s reasons for abandoning fact-checking Fakebook Facebook; Whitmire notes the irony (emphasis added):

Seemingly overnight, Facebook — which insists on being called Meta now — swapped out its political identity more swiftly than its name. The world’s largest social media company announced it would suspend fact-checking, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg called “biased” and prone to mistakes. Zuck did not cite examples, nor weigh any errors against the good that fact-checking may have done. Instead, he cited his opinion as a fact. And who will be left at the company to fact-check him?

And that’s just the start. Follow the link for the rest.

Meanwhile, in more news of the Zuckerborg . . . .

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This New Gilded Age 0

Via the Majority Report, a business professor argues that “income inequality is out of control,” then Sam and the crew discuss his remarks.

Afterthought:

We are reaping the harvest of Reagan’s trickle-on economics.

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Job Interviews 0

PoliticalProf.

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The Crypto Con 0

He says it came to him in a dream, which, methinks, is a fancy way of saying he dreamed it up.

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QOTD 0

Eleanor Bron:

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Facebook Frolics 0

Mark Zuckerberg removes a bar labeled

Click to view the original image.

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The Media Is the Message 0

Thom argues that, if you can control the media, you can control the message, and traces the history of Republican efforts to do just that.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

At The Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler looks at Republicans’ reactions to the fires in California and finds himself less than favorably impressed. Here’s a bit from his article; I commend the entire piece to your attention.

Speaking as a near-lifelong Republican, if this is what “Making America Great Again” looks like, count me out.

Follow the link to learn why he said that.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

A Solomonic ruling rooted in Cannon law.

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Republican Family Values 0

As has been noted before in these electrons, mean for the sake of mean appears to be a pirmary, if not the primary, Republican family value.

David has more. in this case, regarding the fires in California:

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The Crypto Con 0

You may dig it (if you do, know that you’ve been conned), but, per a British court ruling, this guy can’t.

Via El Reg, which has more about crypto cons.

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QOTD 0

Roger Ebert:

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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The Establishmentarian Cult of Trump 0

Comedian interviews establishmentarians, with predictable results.

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Driving Defensively on the Disinformation Superhighway 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Bill Eddy notes that (emphasis added):

  • Social media and some news outlets often include false information which can feel true from repetition.
  • Research shows that false and emotional information spreads farther and faster than the truth.

He then suggests ten questions that can be helpful in parsing perfidy. Here’s a snippet; follow the link for the full list.

Will the speaker/writer personally benefit by saying what they are saying . . . .

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