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...
Buck thinks this is the best Obama satire site (he says so here).
4. Prometheus was punished for plagiarizing Obama.
17. Obama often says “uh” in his speeches in order to irritate Bill O’Rilley who hangs onto his every word.
32. US Mail Service published Obama’s resume on a new first class stamp.
Conventions are coming up. I wonder if that will be the end of this “Messiah” crap; if it’ll all be more about the difference between Obama and McCain vis a vis policies. Seems the Obama campaign is already trying to head off in that direction, but they’re still keeping one foot on this “Obama’s a Lightworker And You Are Not” platform. I have the impression that word’s gotten around the O campaign that they’ve overdone this and they need to start thinning it out. The hitch in the giddy-up is that if Obama talks “I’m Wonderful,” he doesn’t have to talk policy, and if he talks policy there’s less room for the “I’m Wonderful” stuff. But “I’m Wonderful” is not the presence of substance, it is more like absence. It is a hole. Seems to be a vacuum nature is rather slow to abhor.
Perhaps the campaign has also learned — when Obama declares a policy position on a Monday, he’s surely flip-flopping by Wednesday. The sad truth few are willing to put into words or print: He wasn’t selected for policy positions. He was selected because he’s the Real Deal.
REAL DEAL: Flattering slang attached to an individual who possesses a unique ability to sell products unneeded.
How sad is that.
The democrat party gets all excited about an individual’s ability to sell policy that will probably be bad policy and thus need an excellent salesman — before they even settle on what the policy is going to be.
But it’s an effective technique. It’d be easier for McCain to eat tomato soup with chopsticks, than to take down Obama, because the battlefield is rhetoric and not substance. McCain will never beat Obama on rhetoric. His only hope is that by November, people will be sick and tired of He Who Walks On Water. But…that is more than a fair shot, because a little of Mr. Lightworker goes a long way.
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Thanks for the link, Morgan.
Apropos of nothing… I’ve been watching a whole helluva lot of network teevee this week… MUCH more than normal (“normal” defined as “zero”)… because of the Olympics. And I note that Obama is spending a LOT of money in NM. The O ads outnumber the M ads by a factor of at least three to one, and that’s local stuff, not the network ads…which have been about even, as far as I can tell. Money really DOES talk, especially in this campaign. It makes me wonder how much Obama is spending in the critical battleground/swing states, like Ohio and Florida, if he’s spending as much as he is to get NM’s five puny lil electoral college votes.
- Buck | 08/15/2008 @ 13:24