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...
All of the People?
Oldie but a beauty: Abraham Lincoln was supposed to have noted, a few years before becoming our 16th U.S. President, that “you can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”
Alas, it appears he didn’t say it. Oh well. The quip has always been burdened by problems here & there, like the doubt I privately nurtured the first time I heard it: What business does “honest Abe” have making observations on how much you can lie to people, and still get away with it?
And does it really work? If Lincoln had said this, the best theory you could prove from it is that he didn’t have e-mail. Oh, how I’d love to watch him in the Oval Office in 1865, switching on the e-Machine and opening his Hotmail, only to be slammed with screenful after screenful of spam. All of it forwarded from friends and relatives, half of it about the guy waking up in a bathtub full of ice with his kidneys missing, the other half about free money from Bill Gates for testing out his mail-forwarding program. Can’t fool all of ’em all the time, huh?
I’ve got something I’ve been noticing about people that fits into this pretty well…although not without, what we call in the software development biz, “a major re-write.” It’s way too long to fit into a “Thing I Know,” but I can probably make it work by borrowing from Honest Abe’s template here.
All of the people mean some of what they say, and some of the people mean all of what they say; but all of the people do not mean all of what they say.
Vague? A tad perplexing to try to untangle? Maybe even, bad writing? Sure. But with my fortieth birthday sneaking up on me, I look back on events up to this point — and this is probably the one lesson about my planet-mates I’ve had the greatest need to learn.
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