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...
Boortz doesn’t think very good things would happen to you if you were a cartoonist and you chose to lampoon a liberal politician this way. I agree.
I’d sum up the mood of the intelligentsia this way: “(Name of lefty politician here)’s family is absolutely positively off-limits, now get a load of my Tripp Palin impression.”
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What do you expect from the lefty liberals? Since they have nothing to support their asinine view of the world all they can resort to is hurling insults at those they disagree with.
- Instinct | 02/18/2010 @ 12:33That’s the funny thing about social stigma. It remains friendly to theory and rather hostile to practice. It may occasionally become practi-cal…we have a social stigma against failing to yield to an ambulance, or hanging your coat over a fire extinguisher on a wall. For reasons that are practical. But still theoretical. Once it’s based on things that have really truly happened — like for example, socialism failing and capitalism succeeding — those who are most sensitive to it quickly lose interest. Mr. MacFarlane is in that camp, I’m a-thinkin’.
Try this piece of apologia on for size:
The Palin family’s offense is a fail, I presume an epic one, because after all the show has done worse things than this before. Follow that logic? Good. You’re a sharper thinker than I am if you did.
- mkfreeberg | 02/18/2010 @ 13:57I couldn’t get very far on the Boortz comment thread. Most of the posters seemed to be saying, “So what? What’s the big deal? If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.”
Feh. Such inane “logic,” I think, sort of misses the point. No, nobody is pointing a gun at anybody’s head and forcing them to watch Family Guy. I still watch the show periodically, though I agree with those who say it’s gone downhill since its return to FOX.
It’s hard for me to just stop watching. For one, I’m usually at work when I do see his cartoons, and I’m not the one with the remote, so I’m kind of forced to watch when it’s slow in the office. Besides that, when Family Guy (the others, not so much) are good, they’re really good. I’ve really enjoyed all the bits and pieces of 80s nostalgia that he throws in. Clearly they’re aimed at people like me – guys in their 30s who grew up watching all those Saturday cartoons and whatnot.
I would cast my vote with those who simply lament that Seth McFarlane isn’t more even-handed in his smears, as are Trey Parker / Matt Stone, creators of “South Park.” McFarlane seems more interested in cozying-up to a bunch of Hollyweird left-wingers, secularists, and the like…entire episodes of his shows have been dedicated to bashing Christians (he is a self-proclaimed atheist, after all) as well as the little smears here and there…like Stewie finding a “McCain-Palin 08” button already attached to the Nazi disguise he dons in one episode. Come on…was that really necessary? Does anyone with a brain think that the 2008 McCain presidential ticket advocated the views of Nazis in any way, shape, matter or form? No, of course not…McFarlane just wanted to push along this stupid, pervasive, and die-hard stereotype that Republicans are Nazis.
I think it’s a bloody shame, really. McFarlane is clearly very gifted and talented, and very good at what he does. I simply lament the way he wastes that talent. He could have a truly funny product, but instead seems unable to resist the urge to turn his cartoons into little propaganda machines. I’d have no complaints about his shows at all if he’d just knock off that crap.
- cylarz | 02/18/2010 @ 14:53