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...
Phil bags ‘im and tags ‘im. If you’re familiar with Bob Herbert, you know this doesn’t take much. A work by Bob Herbert is a work of pure bile. Leaning hard on the negative. Hate, hate, hate. Even in the New York Times, there isn’t much like it…it’s an entire career built on one statement taken out of context in one of Ronald Reagan’s speeches from 29 years ago. Simply amazing.
The subject this time? What else. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and the powerless but hated right-wing white males who have the temerity to speak out about it, specifically, the not-elected-or-appointed-to-anything Newt Gingrich and the not-elected-or-appointed-to-anything Karl Rove.
Phil’s spent more time on it than I have available to me here, and I don’t feel up to the task of excerpting. But this quote summarizes things nicely:
The deal is, the Republicans as a rule (far, far more than the Democrats) have been for equal treatment, and have been demonized in the past 30 or so years as being racist for not wanting to go beyond that and elevate minorities to a special status. It is not the Republicans being inconsistent. It’s the Democrats buying minority votes and convincing them that they are dependent on Democrats to keep those mean Republicans from putting them back under the boot.
I am not saying there are not racist Republicans, nor am I saying all Democrats are, or were, racists. Lefties can point to examples But you can’t ignore the numbers and the trend over our history.
What causes it? Goodperson Fever. People who define the postmodern liberal movement are in a great big hurry to showcase, over and over again, that they see all other persons as “equal”…they can never demonstrate that to the rest of us enough to feel satisfied…and the reason this thirst is unquenchable, is because that which is being so repeatedly proven again and again, is not true. These people are miserable if & when we have both a code and a culture that recognizes all classes as equal. That makes them supremely unhappy. All these classes have to be special in some way. We have to have a Year of the Woman, a Year of the Queer, a Year of the Disabled Person, a Year of the Differently Colored, et cetera. Nobody is ever fully respected…just as a person. Nope. There have to be special privileges to “make up for the errors of the past.”
Their sailboat is becalmed if the waters ever become truly smooth, and they damn well know it. They want the interclass jealousies and infighting to continue.
Now if you woke up a genie after two thousand years and let him live in one wing of your house for a few weeks…or if you rescued an alien who crashed here in a spaceship…seriously, how would you explain this to your houseguest? Affirmative Action plans and programs all over the place to help out those disenfranchised classes that can’t get a fair shake without ’em, and yet the most prestigious occupation in our entire country is occupied by a black dude. People screaming by the millions, “hooray, it’s true, anybody can do anything!” — but nobody dares to say “So when do we get rid of all these programs?” Your houseguest, who for purposes of our hypothetical possesses all of the critical-thinking faculties required, but is completely foreign to our recent history, would suggest the obvious to you and you’d be forced to agree. Someone is in charge of these little wrinkles in our society, and whoever it is wants us to keep fighting across class lines. What do you do when you want roof shingles to line up? What do you do when you want panels of sheet metal to fit in with each other? You erect one beam across the full length of the structure, and then you nail or rivet the units to this common bond. We don’t do that with our people. We’re opposed to doing that. Every class has to have its own beam or plank. It’s a rule. We don’t really want the nirvana we are supposed to be desperately and endlessly seeking. Or if we do really want it, we haven’t been grasping for it in the right way. We’ve been putting foxes in charge of the chicken coop. We’ve been appointing dividers to the task of unifying us.
And we’ve been putting rabble-rousers in the position of “informing” us, too. Bob Herbert is one of the most prestigious columnists, in our nation’s most prestigious newspaper.
And all he does is peddle hate. It’s as if his position exists solely to make blogs look more worthwhile.
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