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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.
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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.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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The forty-first award for the Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) goes to Victor Davis Hanson…via small-tee tim the godless heathen (who I named), posting at Rick’s blog Brutally Honest. Here it is.
I think it is much harder for a mother of three or four in an out-of-the-way Alaskan town to get elected to city council and the mayorship, then take on the entire Republican establishment and get elected governor than it is for a Barack Obama to emerge from Chicago politics into the Illinois state house and later Senate.
Of course, Barack Obama is not running against this mother from the Alaskan town. He’s running against that old guy who happens to be on her ticket. But, y’know…all things considered, I think people like me have a lot more to learn from people like her, than we do from people like Sen. Obama, for the reason spelled out above.
Now Sen. McCain (and handlers). Could you please un-hitch her from those “John McCain is a better Messiah than that other guy” and “bipartisanship” talking points, really cut ‘er loose, so we can see the kind of fire and passion that saved your ass from electoral oblivion in the first place? Pretty please?
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Glad you enjoyed it Morgan & glad somebody read it.
For anyone else, VDH explains why he’s comparing Palin to Obama and not McCain.
- tim | 09/29/2008 @ 08:55It’s a fascinating column, tim, thanks again for finding it. VDH is really making a study of Yin and Yang, asking “the old Euripidean question ‘What is wisdom?'” His point is that as Obama continues to bash Palin, his attacks are based on the idea that wisdom is all about the book-smarts and has nothing to do with everyday life experiences…in which Palin beats him hands-down. Like all absolutes (including this one) it eventually collapses under its own weight. VDH comes to the same conclusion that we do here, that both types of smarts are relevant and necessary to real life challenges and probably to the presidency as well.
Interestingly, his column precedes the Katie Couric interview, which I personally consider to be a significant disaster; but in the wake of that, all of his comments stand, with just as much merit as they possessed before.
- mkfreeberg | 09/29/2008 @ 09:06