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...
Obligatory link. This thing went flying around the innerwebz yesterday and deservedly so. This is what’s heap big busted:
I grew up on the East Coast. For a while, I lived in California.
I was blown away to learn that people could just start bonfires on the beach, whenever they liked.
Now, to be honest, I learned on this when the government was trying to crack down on the practice, but I was blown away at the idea that a private citizen could, in this country, previous to changes in this law at least, simply create a bonfire on the beach and enjoy it. Just because he wanted to.
Then I started to think like this: What kind of a mind-screw did they do on me when I should be surprised that people would be allowed to do this?
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And this is where I begin to get angry:How much of each of our current mental landscapes are shaped by government such that we internalize the idea that the basic right to be left alone (presuming you’re not destroying other’s property) doesn’t exist?
How much of we come to accept such restrictions as “just normal”?
If you try to open a shop, how many licenses and inspections and certificates do you need?
And we all of course accept that. Of course we cannot perform a lawful trade without first securing the go-ahead of a half-dozen bureaucratic agencies.
I mean, that’s just normal, right? That’s just how it is, right?
Sixty years ago, would we have thought that was normal?
I’m looking for a place to retire. I want to wake up in the morning to the sound of real ocean surf pounding away and smell the salt air…which of course eliminates everything more than a mile or two from the coastlines…and I want to take the beer and wine bottles spent from the night before, and blow them to smithereens, without going anywhere, in my own backhard, with a sidearm. And that, for reasons I don’t quite understand, eliminates the coastal states. What does the ocean have to do with living like a gun-banning nanny-state pussy?
Even North Carolina is succumbing to the silliness.
The formula seems to endure pretty consistently: Individual choice prevails if it has something to do with sex, otherwise it doesn’t. Some places in our great union are holding out a little longer, but they’re landlocked. Wonder why that is.
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I keep tellin’ ya: Texas. The Gulf Coast doesn’t have roaring surf (well, the occasional hurricane aside), but it IS a coastline. And you can plink bottles to yer heart’s content. It’s America’s last and greatest hope.
- bpenni | 02/17/2012 @ 09:21It’s certainly on my mind. Galveston area.
- mkfreeberg | 02/17/2012 @ 09:35Of course, there’s also the place up North, the big one. With the half-term Governor, ya know.
- mkfreeberg | 02/18/2012 @ 15:46