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...
“Chief Agent”
Vice President Cheney is “the nation’s foremost 9/11 conspiracy theorist.” And if you happen to believe Saddam Hussein might have had something to do with the September 11 attacks, Cheney probably put that thought in your head. You, certainly, had nothing to do with it.
It just goes to show what this is all about. All this fighting about Iraq — it doesn’t have that much to do with Iraq. Or terrorism. In the end, it’s all about thinking for yourself. Because you can write as many editorials to the contrary as you want, and through it all you can’t prove a negative. And, increasingly, we see the anti-war types gauging the success of the administration in muddying-up the public discourse, through polls that reveal X many percent of us think Saddam Hussein was dangerous and may have had something to do with the 9/11 plot.
Well, you can probably count me among those who think the potential was there. And certainly, you can count me among those who think the world’s better off without him.
In all likelihood, John Young disagrees with me. But do I bear no responsibility, personally, for forming this opinion he doesn’t want me to have? Have I not engaged in my own cognitive process in forming it? Perhaps Vice President Cheney has made the pitch, and I’ve made the decision to buy…thereby showing myself to be some kind of a big dummy. How culpable is the “chief conspiracy theorist” in that scenario? Isn’t it just the job of an administration, to sell the initiatives that it thinks should be done? Packing the Supreme Court? Japanese Internment? Korea? Medicare? Civil Rights Act? Aren’t higher-level administration officials supposed to be good salesmen?
One more little thing. I’d like to examine Mr. Young’s logic. A huge chunk of the public believes Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11…that’s a black eye for the administration somehow. A huge chunk of the public suffers from “distrust” which is the “hallmark of [the] adminstration” — that, too, is supposed to be a black eye. The logic behind one of those sentiments, is a hundred and eighty degrees twisted from the other one. They’re polar opposites. Nevertheless, over the next month and a half, expect to see a whole lot more of both.
Public distrust has become hallmark of administration
By John YoungTHE NATION’S foremost 9/11 conspiracy theorist was on “Meet the Press” last week. And we all thought conspiracy theorists got no face time in mainstream media.
Well, it helps when you are vice president of the United States.
That would be Dick Cheney. Next possibly to Fox News, he’s the chief agent behind the belief held by so many, including many in our fighting forces, that we attacked Iraq because it had something to do with 9/11.
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