From Pine View Farm

Recommended Listening 0

The Swiss Family Robinson.

I read this book multiple times back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un.

It’s just as good now as it was then.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Courting Disaster 0

Joe Patrice.

Just read it.

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A Modest Proposal 0

Martin Schramm must be smoking a pipe, for he has a pipe dream:

It is way past time for all Republican leaders who still put patriotism and the Constitution first to unite in a new and different crusade: The Republican Famous Names should form a Truth Squad — so they can finally tell the truth and rescue their party from its life as the embodiment of the Trumped-up big lie.

Like that’s going to happen.

Follow the link for more of his dream-state.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another case of brotherly politeness.

Authorities are investigating the accidental shooting of a 12-year-old boy by his 9-year-old brother in southeast Arkansas Thursday Afternoon.

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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Business newscaster says,

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Facebook Frolics 0

A frolicker sows the wind, reaps the whirlwind (or, at least, an eddy).

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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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