Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Their signs say one thing, their actions say something a little bit different. People on the inside accuse people on the outside of missing the point, but can’t or won’t offer a cohesive, coherent statement of exactly what it is they’re trying to say. I’m given to understand there is a great deal of momentum in this movement, but what they have accumulated looks less to me like “momentum” than the much more superficial quality of visibility. Momentum may come after the definition of the message. And, were it left to me, I’d say that would be a necessary first step before the visibility.
Thought I’d help them out. And for the record, they can count on my support if they go with the first seven items.
1. Too Big To Fail, with the S&L bailout, was a fraud and a sham, let’s never do that again.
2. Sarah Palin is completely right about “crony capitalism” and it needs to stop, gosh darn it.
3. When you have one guy saying something…when you have one guy saying something…and the crowd around him repeats it…and the crowd around him repeats it…you may not have realized this…you may not have realized this…but it’s really, really, creepy…but it’s really, really creepy.
4. See all those old people joining us in our demonstrations? They are testament to the waste of human potential taking place here; they prove that entire lives are being wasted on this leftist gobbledygook. And it doesn’t make a face any prettier.
5. When people are born with silver spoons in their mouths, they don’t end up satisfied, they end up “demonstrating” for more goodies. Me and my friends are living proof!
6. If you spend some kid’s entire childhood telling him how wonderful and special he is, rather than teaching him a rugged work ethic and marketable skills, it doesn’t make society more orderly or better-functioning, it just brings rancor. And again, me and my friends are living proof!
7. All you kids just a few years younger than us, still going to school: See the way we’re dressed? When you dress like this, you can’t get a job. Think about your higher ed: Too many of our universities are soaking up copious quantities of money, and teaching students like us nothing but a bunch of drivel that will land them on Wall Street, with signs in their hands, crapping on police cars. Maybe it’s too late for us but you can still save yourselves.
8. Everybody should have the same amount of stuff.
9. Everybody should be making the same amount of money.
10. Like the spectacles lady says: Corporations control the government, and we need government regulation to protect us from these corporations.
11. Those OWS protesters telling you this isn’t about overthrowing capitalism, are a bunch of damn liars! It is! We’re a bunch of Bolsheviks and it’s high time we faced up to it!
12. George W. Bush has screwed up this economy so badly, that millions of people are lining up around the block to shell out hundreds of dollars to get a fancy new phone, with a new numeral and letter printed on it. It’s just brutal!
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I just went through that tumblr site again and it seems like at least 3/4 of these morons got themselves into their situations through assuming massive student loan debt. At what point did holding up a sign that should be viewed as “I’m an idiot” become some kind of “truth to power?”
Even more, as this could be read by any reasonable individual as your incapacity to make wise decisions, why on earth should you be allowed to influence public policy?
I keep scrolling through these pictures and laughing–is this some kind of creative writing contest to create the biggest tearjerker that will fit on 8×10 spiralbound?
- Jason | 10/17/2011 @ 15:56