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 Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately (BSIHORL) goes out this morning to David Aaronovitch, Times Online:
It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism – its division of the world into good and evil – themselves allocate all past badness to [George] Bush and all prospective goodness to [Barack] Obama.
It gets better from there. Tough to see how, maybe, but you just have to head on over and read it all.
Yes, what he’s noticing is an entire package of things I’d been noticing this weekend about stateside democrats and liberals.
The division of everyone within line-of-site into the “them” camp and the “us” camp.
The selection of human targets for obliteration, forced retirement, marginalization and other forms of destruction.
The perseverance.
The renewed determination in the face of small and large setbacks.
The call-to-arms among old acquaintances, the recruiting among new ones.
The brutal interrogation of those whose loyalty has been demanded, but not forthcoming in a way they’d like it to have been.
The determination to confront.
Just plain, old-fashioned ballz.
All these things, and more, they condemn it wherever they find it — so long as the goal has to do with defeating worldwide radical Islamic terrorism. Or defending a family from a brutal thug in the middle of the night, or one’s woman from a rapist, or an industry from being regulated to death.
Anything except spreading the seeds of liberalism. Then, and only then, all these people will blossom forward with all that yummy goodness they condemn everywhere else.
All the energy and heat of an erupting volcano.
All the single-minded determination of any wild, starving predator.
All the stamina of water wearing away on a rock.
The power of a tidal wave.
All these forces of nature reserved for simple reproduction of the idea. And only for that, for the idea is nihilism. We are not good, we don’t belong where we are, and nothing is worth anything, for we are undeserving of whatever it is.
What peaceful people they’d be if they were consistent about this. Because then they’d say “well, we should get out of this war because it’s just too dang painful and hard, but if there’s other folks who disagree about that and they outvote me, that’s quite alright. What’s the use of arguing. Heck, I’m not too sure I should have an opinion about it anyway.”
Quite the difference between that hypothetical product of consistency, and what we see them do every day and every week…no?
Wouldn’t it be nice if they worked up one-tenth as much anger toward radical terrorists as what they have in reserve for conservatives, “neocons,” and other ideological opponents?
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