From Pine View Farm

Health Care Schmealth Care 0

Michael in Norfolk argues that, in the United States, the health care “system” is all about the Benjamins, not about health nor care.

Methinks he makes some valid points.

Share

If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Methinks David makes a valid point. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

Share

Republican Thought Police 0

Scott Maxwell has a question for Florida’s Republican thought police:

Think about it: If you truly had a concrete, defendable (sic) list of books that you believe are dangerous for kids to read, you’d release it. There would be no confusion. Every school in the state would know which books are allowed and which ones aren’t.

But to this day, the state has refused to produce a list of the books it believes are inappropriate — or even answer questions about whether certain books are OK when asked. Why do you think that is?.

Follow the link for his answer to his admittedly rhetorical question.

Share

“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past . . . .”* 0

Title:  Learning issues.  Frame One:  Little boy in a snow storm with his tongue stuck to a metal pole.  At the top of the pole sits a sign reading 2016 Trump Presidency.  Frame Two:  Grown man in a snow storm with his tongue stuck to a metal pole.  At the top of the pole sits a sign reading 2024 Trump Presidency.

Via Balloon Juice.

__________________

*George Santayana.

Share

A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished . . . 0

. . . for he was well and truly hoist on his own petard.

Share

QOTD 0

Sinclair Lewis:

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Share

Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

Share

A Wray of Dis-Appointment 0

PoliticalProf parses the pattern.

Share

The Entitlement Society 0

Title:  Unelected Billionaire Broligarchy.  Image:  Elon Muxh and Vivek Ramaswamy hug Donald Trump.  Musk says,

Via Job’s Anger.

Share

The Crypto Con 0

Sam and the crew talk with Jacob Silverman, author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, about the crypto con and how the crypto con artists are infiltrating politics courtesy of Donald Trump and the Trumpettes.

Share

One for the Road 0

Army tank labeled

Click for the original image and the artist’s commentary.

(Broken link fixed.)

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More brotherly politness:

According to the search warrant application, the victim’s 12-year-old brother partially pried opened a gun case secured by a gun lock and slid out a Sig Sauer P365 .380-caliber pistol.

The boy began playing with the gun when it accidentally discharged, striking his sister in the back, police said.

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.

Share

Republican Family Values 0

No surprises here.

Share

QOTD 0

Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Share

A Tune for the Times, the Entitlement Society Dept. 0

(Warning: Mild language.)

Share

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Foisted on you surreptitiously? Yes indeedy-do, at least if you use Windows 10 or higher.

Share

A Glimpse of Christmas Future 0

Boy watching television.  Sister asks,

Click to view the original image.

Aside:

It’s 70 Fahrenheits here as I type this. In December.

I fear we are will past the tipping point.

Share

This New Gilded Age, Reprise 0

Share

This New Gilded Age 0

It would seem that I am not alone in thinking that’s where we are today.

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A young California mother was tragically shot dead by her two-year-old son after the toddler found a loaded gun in the woman’s bedroom.

Too many guns. Too much stupid.

Share
From Pine View Farm
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.