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 seventy-fourth award for Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) goes out to Smitty who is blogging at The Other McCain. He is righteously schooling Rick Moran for Moran’s latest…uh…”I hate Sarah Palin so that makes me a really smrt guy” whatever.
Beats him like a drum, then signs off with this beauty:
To tweak Nietzsche, socialism is the opiate of the bureaucracy, but addiction lacks middle ground.
If a plan for $12 trillion in new debt had even the slightest chance of being the right way to go, and it was being argued honestly, those who promote it wouldn’t be working so hard to ratify it through stigmatization of the opposite. Stigmatizing the opposite is Item #2 on the list of ways To Motivate Large Numbers of People to Do a Dumb Thing Without Anyone Associating the Dumb Thing With Your Name Later On. It works like this: “He’s a bad man, so if he doesn’t like something, whatever that is must be a wonderful thing.”
A couple months ago I heard one of the radio guys say something quote-worthy (Smitty’s gem remains the champion of BSIHORL#54, but let’s just drift off topic for a moment to mention this)…paraphrasing here…
If you could somehow find a real live Nazi who happened to be opposed to Barack Obama’s health care plan, he might be correct about that one thing.
Exactly.
We’ve lately taken to pondering the benefits and liabilities of some plans and potential plans that are, shall we say…impactful. Influential. Irreversible once put into effect.
The energy we have been spending, on both sides, examining the less desirable human traits of those who oppose our point of view, whatever that might be, is pretty high. That’s an understatement. The expenditure of this energy is off the scale.
Nazis can be right. About things that aren’t connected with Nazi-ness. It’s possible.
Dumb people can be right.
Stinky people can be right.
Call ’em what you want…big ol’ poopy heads can be right.
We shouldn’t be spending any energy discussing the human-personality attributes of those who are on this-side or that-side of a decision. It’s entirely irrelevant. The merits of, and legitimate objections to, the decision itself — this is entirely sufficient to demand as much of our attention as we can afford to disburse. Especially in view of the things we are trying to decide.
Moran, although he occasionally agrees with me about some things, has become emblematic of what’s wrong with the way these things are argued and why we have become divisive lately. He’s seeking to make friends with people by inventing, or obsequiously adoring, third grade insults.
Who’s divisive?
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