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...
The fifty-second Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award goes out this Christmas Morning to The People’s Cube, for some commentary that went up a couple months ago about democrats and sex.
It, in turn, was inspired by this website over here (warning, main page includes a YouTube clip that plays automatically…just in case the left wing hadn’t done enough, already, to put a damper on your yuletide spirits).
Same ol’ bullshit. You join a movement of attractive young folks who’ve signed a pact to not have sex with anyone who votes Republican. You know what a pact is, right? It’s something a group of people agree to do with regard to future events, no matter how their individual common sense, personal beliefs, or preference at the point of decision may have otherwise motivated them. In other words, it is a triumph of the past over the future, of group-think over individual thought, of dogma over…choice.
None of which is inherently bad.
But to do such a thing to support “choice,” amuses us in a dark, sad, ironic kind of way.
Anyway — what with Tina Fey being named Entertainer of the Year by the Associated Press, for ” ma[king] us think about what was going on,” according to one editor, People’s Cube said something we thought was apropos. Tina Fey, you see, didn’t earn her award by making people think about what was going on. She earned it by making people think a lot of bullshit about what was going on. Among other things Gov. Palin never, ever said, not even once, was “I can see Russia from my house,” even though millions of people who voted last month, are convinced she did. Therein lies the power of humor. Such power reaches its peak when humor ceases to be humor. When it interjects fantasy, while pretending to emulate reality, which is the way more decent parody works.
This is why I had to flip around the website linked above to figure out of it was serious or not. And flip. And flip.
Because some ideas don’t look sensible, until you combine politics with sex. Or combine politics with humor.
Which means they aren’t sensible. It has to mean that; it can’t mean anything else.
Like in public school, to be accepted one must conform or be ostracized. But in the worlds of politics, government and media, right of center “nonconformity” can bring serious consequences.
Humor, for leftists, is strictly a means of reinforcing conformity – a tool to ridicule, demean and demote those not of the Party (much like chickens will peck a sickly or ‘different’ chicken to death). [emphasis mine]
Just something to ponder in 2009…nothing more. Just something very well said.
The Cube went on to put together this video, which offers a much more honest form of parody. The kind that demonstrates the ludicrous nature of the target by intermingling it with truth — not fiction.
Well done.
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