Comments for From Pine View Farm

Comment on Joe! by Frank

Frank — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:13 +0000

[grin]

Comment on Joe! by George

George — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:24:53 +0000

Ha. I take it all back.

Comment on Joe! by Frank

Frank — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:24:27 +0000

Be careful. I voted for him every chance I could and my son took courses from Jill Biden at DelTech.

Comment on Joe! by George

George — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:03 +0000

Points for being fiery and enthusiastic. But he’s not particularly eloquent and I’m betting that though he’s from Scranton they still won’t care in all those places.

Comment on Hole in the Center by George

George — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:58:06 +0000

What they really want, too, is an old-school Republican, ergo Roemer. But no old school Republican of consequence would join up because they know the current GOP would ruin them permanently for being their Ralph Nader. And they were way too sold on how they were innovating by allowing people to “click” their way to a candidate. The numbers published by the LA Times yesterday on how many people actually clicked through for candidates as opposed to those who just visited the site were humiliating. Their social media selection was aimed at an older audience that doesn’t even care for it and the kids who do would never have been interested in their old stodge dressed up as new.

Comment on Hole in the Center by Frank

Frank — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:06:03 +0000

As I thought about your comment, I realized that it is about manners.

The professional centrists dislike the lack of manners and have concluded that restoring manners will fix the polity, when, in fact, fixing the polity will restore the manners.

Comment on Hole in the Center by George

George — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:19:58 +0000

Americans Elect gathered signatures outside my supermarket. I wouldn’t sign. Today Bill Bradley, another ‘centrist’ is peddling his idiot book saying what’s wrong with Washington is gerrymandering and money, while completely omitting that one party is completely nuts and responsible for halting everything as a consequence. Then he mentions Americans Elect but is forced to concede that absolutely no one was interested in them except Tom Friedman, Dylan Ratigan and a few other swells they could stroke. That Buddy Roemer was the best they could come up with was laughable.

Comment on Facebook Frolics by Frank

Frank — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:34:34 +0000

I think the roles of Facebook and Twitter were greatly overrated by the western press because they were the press's primary sources of uncensored information. Not that they didn't have a role, but that it was ancillary or facilitative, not formative.

Just my two cents, but the western media does go all gaga at bits and bytes, probably because they don't have a clue as to how networks work, which also accounts for the gee-whiz about "cyber attacks." It's the press's own cargo cult.

Comment on Facebook Frolics by George

George — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:00:53 +0000

I’d be kinda interested in a poll question that asked people if the believe Facebook liberated Egypt into democracy? And how many know where Egypt is, too.

Comment on Mitt the Flip and the Bully Pulpit by Frank

Frank — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:08:16 +0000

Thurston Howell III was selfish, but not vicious. The two do not always go together.