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...
This is brown, all right. Soft & brown.
We are about to be governed by a guy who doesn’t even know how to hang up a phone.
Meg Whitman’s handling of housekeeper scandal and record-breaking spending have cost her support among women, Latinos and independents.
So not only will we have a governor with a proven track record of making things worse, he’ll owe his election to Gloria Allred. Which has to mean we’ll be privileged to hear a great deal more from her.
But yeah, Meg Whitman is clearly lacking in moral character or something…seeing as how she got fooled when someone else falsified documents and showed them to her.
Brown called Whitman a whore. California women are about to punch the chad for him because Gloria Allred drummed up a phony scandal.
They — the ones who fit the description, anyway — owe the rest of us a big apology. Or will. But we’re still waiting for one from the Obama voters, so what the hell.
Update: You know how I would characterize California; it is chock full of people who are very touchy about how their identities are associated. We have a lot of people who want to be associated with whatever is fashionable. With some people it’s Depeche Mode, with others it’s Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. Or Jersey Shore. It’s a generational thing, what they’re going to latch onto as their bauble. Many want to be fuzzy and fashionable, few have any desire to be very deep. They’re afraid of alienating someone.
Very few people want to be associated with a political position, be it left or right. When it comes to politics, just about everyone wants to be mushy, agnostic, centrist, moderate.
But among those, most just want the democrat to win. ALL of the time. They can’t or won’t explain why. Just want the democrat to win.
When conservatives tell each other not to get cocky in 2010, they’re talking about my state. Whatever. Just get out there, do your voting, and there you’ve been as un-cocky as anyone could expect. But don’t expect any major turnarounds here.
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Very few people want to be associated with a political position, be it left or right. When it comes to politics, just about everyone wants to be mushy, agnostic, centrist, moderate.
Sounds like one of my co-workers. Every time someone in the room is talking with someone else in the room about something remotely political, he has to chime in with, “You guys know, I’m not registered with either party…I don’t lean one way or the other…I have plenty of problems with both major parties and their leaders, they’re all a bunch of puppets to someone…” The next thing that comes out of his mouth is nearly always something offensive to me. He introduces his rant on how centrist and non committed he is like it’s some badge of honor, and then proceeds to lump all political minded people into one big stew of corruption.
I always want to say to the guy, “Yes, you have told us that three times now about how wonderfully independent you are. And you know something? I don’t respect people who go out of their way to say this. I don’t respect squishy moderate centrist types; in fact I think I like them even less than I do the Left. At least those across the aisle from me have some kind of allegiance to some kind of principles, even if it’s nothing more than the proposition that government is always good. But you fence-sitting clowns really piss me off…standing there with your finger in the wind, lumping me and my guys into the same categories as the despicable cretins we’re trying to unseat this November…where the hell do you get off?”
- cylarz | 10/24/2010 @ 18:37