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...
This morning’s best sentence, out of all I have read lately, is this one from Mike Adams discussing affirmative action. He’s talking about competent individuals who want to achieve on the merits of their own skills, but are not given and cannot be given credit for such things. And why not? Because they happen to be members of some class that is supposed to benefit from affirmative action rules. I can’t state such a situation with brevity, at least not much, but he can.
Once a class of people is given credit for something its members did not achieve, individuals in that class forfeit credit for the things they actually did.
Bingo. Says it all. Read the rest. You’ll find an intriguing idea down toward the very end: Suppose all applicants worked together to bring an end to affirmative action, from sea to shining sea, everybody — universally — by “checking the box for ‘African American’ on every university form.”
That’s an idea worthy of a book. Racism and blatant fraud brought to a permanent and inglorious end, by means of — just-plain-fraud. Well, that isn’t what’s about to happen. We got us a Democrat Congress now. Get ready for some more reverse-prejudice at all levels, some “temporary” reverse-discrimination to be cemented into permanence; probably, like nothing we’ve ever seen before. And who’s going to be victimized more than anybody else? The individuals who happen to belong to the protected classes, who desire to succeed simply on their own merits. Individuals of all races, are going to find it to be tougher and tougher to do that very thing. As Yoda might say, begun, the war on individuality has.
Hey all you “conservatives” who watched re-runs of “Full House” and “Married With Children” on election night, because Republicans “didn’t deserve your vote.” Feelin’ good about it now? Just askin’.
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