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...
Via Fire and Hammer, via Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, we learn that the FDNY has apparently lost its mind. It all began with a “sexually explicit slogan.” I’d like to know what that would be. Firefighters do it hotter? Osama can kiss my ass? What?
Well, I suppose it doesn’t really matter. With a battle cry of “No city agency should permit the work place to display inappropriate stuff”, FDNY has begun cleaning…lockers. Nothing personal allowed. “Support Our Troops” banners, American flags, family photos…hey, once again. If a little of something is good, a lot of it must be a whole lot better.
If we could somehow bring the Founding Fathers back to life, and then task some panel to follow them around as they discover where we are, and explain to them how things got this way — recording the explaining part of it on a timesheet as they go — I’m sure most of the explaining would have to do with things we started doing since the education of children has become a public-sector pursuit. This would be the mother-lode of things that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and George Mason couldn’t quite grasp. And I’m referring here to the very first time, probably in your second-grade year, you had some matronly-looking yard teacher or librarian or administrator waggle her finger in your face and intone those timeless words, “if I make one exception, I’ll have to make a thousand.”
This modern dictum appears to be the Queen Bee that gives birth to all administrative ideas…that are bad.
The point where the equation incorporates serious flaw, is obvious. Things that are different, are recognized as equivalent. Differentials are trivialized. A full-color photo of some lady’s verginer spread wide…Christmas card from Mom…all the same, in the stigmatized eyes of those who make rules. The decision-making process is hobbled to the point of complete debilitation, because the cognitive processes have been similarly hobbled. No longer can anyone do, because no longer can anyone think.
It is the single best argument we have, for abolishing the public school system. Little tiny kids are taught to think this way, and they grow up thinking this way. Like bees. For the benefit of the collective order, for the good of the hive, we shall think of the American flag as being on par with the centerfold of Hustler magazine. To preserve intra-departmental order, the good of the many must outweigh the interests of the few.
And yet, intra-depratmental order has been fractured and this little administrative string-pulling effort has ended up on Fox News and WCBS. And a zillion blogs.
The lesson: Bees are bees. People are people. It’s a mistake to make one act like another. A mistake…and ultimately, self-defeating.
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