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...
That has nothing to do with porn, you horndogs, nor does it have to do with judges sentencing convicted people to things. It is the thirtieth Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award, which is announced at highly irregular intervals whenever I feel like it.
And it unquestionably goes to John Stossel. Who, writing about one of his favorite subjects, entitlement programs, compresses this beauty almost down to bumper sticker dimensions:
Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?
John McCain, there’s a Reagan/84 landslide victory waiting for you if you’ve got the balls to talk that sucker up.
Update: No, actually, Stossel needs to split that with this gem that rolled in from commenter Bill, regarding one of yesterday’s posts, in the very moment in which I was editing this one.
If fear were on a spectrum line, from “no fear” to “can’t leave the house”, you’d find the correlation between conservative and liberal matches quite well.
Of course — it’s slightly more complicated than that. Liberalness, personality-wise, is the big phalanx of “cool” girls you knew in high school, which consisted of a ring-leader and then a bunch of lackeys. This applies to the lackeys, but the face of any liberal movement is always the ringleader. But there are character defects that apply to all of them. Even the ringleader, separated from her group, loses her chakra. Can’t hold a conversation with anyone, can’t solve problems that require cognitive aptitude or stamina, can’t stand up for anything and can’t really do much of anything. But she can certainly leave the house.
Bill Clinton can leave the house. Barack Obama can leave the house. It’s said Bill Clinton couldn’t figure out how to work a blender, and Barack thinks we have 57 states.
I think commenter Bill’s observation would hold mostly true. The ring-leader is selected as the least-fearful individual out of the fearful. They cope with life, by carving these little human idols…which then emanate these signals about what to say, what to think, and what to do. And then, like the lackeys from high school, they do it.
It’s so easy. No decision made, is ever wrong; and if it is, it never was really theirs.
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I like roman numerals, but this one would confuse the search engines. Unintended consequence.
- wch | 06/12/2008 @ 10:02Yup. I’ve thought before maybe I should do with 30 what hotels do with 13.
- mkfreeberg | 06/12/2008 @ 10:12Isn’t that what they put on the ends of barells of whiskey?
Always lookin’ for the alcohol angle 😉
- philmon | 06/12/2008 @ 11:09