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...
Full debate. Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks, the liberal, debates Ben Shapiro from The Daily Wire, the conservative.
I suppose any publicity is good publicity, but it’s belaboring the obvious to note Mr. Uygur was under-prepared for this. Evidently someone told him “just circulate a narrative that anybody who doesn’t agree with you doesn’t know anything, and they’ll fall in line”…that probably works great when the number of people who don’t agree with you is zero, one, two or not much more than that.
So he’s left stammering away about how 40% to 60% of the packed audience, doesn’t know how to use Google or something. Ends up looking like he’s just wasting everyone’s time. That’s probably accurate.
I’ve noticed a lot of liberals doing this since Obama got elected…and weirdly, picking up pace with the tactic since Trump got elected. Ah, maybe it’s me giving them the impression I don’t know anything…they like a rule, I don’t like the rule, so like a spark leaping from an electrode they figure out I must not understand the concept of having rules. And they do that with everybody else too, so I know it’s not just me. Looks weird.
Like they’re just not used to being outnumbered. And never did have a good argument to offer about anything.
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They aren’t used to having to prove anything – not their opinions, which are pre-digested and vomited into their minds by their schoolmasters; not their abilities, which are simply assumed to be equal to the actually-skilled; nor their achievements, which are held to be actual accomplishment even if that only accomplishment is being told how accomplished they are.
This is the Participation Trophy Generation, full of credentials without actual expertise and college degrees with no knowledge – and they are plum staggered that all the kiss-ass and mutual admiration from their mentally-incestuous asylums means exactly zero to anyone else but themselves. In terms of social currency, they want us to keep accepting IOUs and Monopoly money.
- nightfly | 08/09/2017 @ 08:04I agree that they’re doing it a lot more now, but they’ve been pulling this routine for a long time. Back in the days, it was the “police are paid with TAXES!” routine. You say “gosh, crime sure is getting out of hand around here” and Lefty hoots “but to hire more police, you need to raise taaaaaxes! and you Reich-wingers hate taaaaaxes!” (only liberals can hit that whiny uptalk pitch on taaaaaxes!,, which I suspect liberalism is largely genetic). Or you say “when is the city going to get around to fixing that giant pothole on Main Street?” and Lefty hoots “but that would get fixed by the goooooooovernment! and you Reich-wingers hate goooooooovernment.” As if any conservative in the history of the world has maintained that a duly constituted government has no legitimate interest in enforcing the law or facilitating commerce…. It’s just “governments do stuff, so if you want any government to do anything, anywhere, you must support government doing everything, everywhere, or you’re a hypocrite.”
- Severian | 08/09/2017 @ 10:31