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 sixty-third award for Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) goes out to Mr. Freedom, for his comments nine days ago on Judge Sotomayor and her nomination to the Supreme Court…more precisely, on the pinheads who nominated her:
In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly ‘thinking people’ who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression. In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. [emphasis mine]
There is a danger that is not long in coming, when weighty decisions are made to show off some smarts and the information relevant to those decisions has not been diligently studied. The danger comes in the need to make a decision that is ironic.
See, we mediocre mortals make decisions on a daily basis that make sense immediately. So our superiors are therefore forced to make decisions with a “WTF?” factor. If they make the same decision any one of us ordinary folks would’ve made, then what’s the point? And so, because of their perceived extraordinary-smartness, they have to do nutty things. Pay more attention to I’m-a-nut-job over in Iran, than to Gordon Brown in the UK. Cap-and-trade. Twenty-seven czars. Putting General Motors under government control. Parading down the street without any clothes on.
Those few who demand to see some solid evidence of “thinking” from those superiors who are running things now, are left sucking air. There’s far too much self expression going on for any quality thinking to take place.
And, tragically, we are left with a situation in which decisions are required to not make sense. Because that would imply that the persons making the decisions are a little bit too…mortal.
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