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 silence of liberals is sometimes just as revealing as what they say. What would be the reaction if protesters at a Tea Party rally were heard saying the following about Attorney General Eric Holder?
• He should be impeached and “put… back in the fields.”
• We should “cut off his toes one-by-one and feed them to him.”
• “I’m all about peace… but I would say torture” him.
• “String him up… and his wife, too.”
• “Hang him.”
Of course, none of these vile, racist and violent things were said about Eric Holder at a conservative political rally. But they were said at a liberal protest affiliated with a Common Cause-sponsored conference on the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on January 30 in Rancho Mirage, California.
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…I won’t hold my breath waiting for liberal websites to cover this or for organizations like the NAACP to denounce it, given the double standards they have long exhibited in their unfair and degrading criticisms of principled black conservatives like Justice Clarence Thomas.
My blogger friend over on the Hello Kitty of blogging absolutely nails it:
Civility, as it turns out, is only a word used to criticize conservatives. In the name of equality, therefore, I decline to bother with it.
The trouble isn’t that liberals are mean; some of them are quite nice. But they can’t bring themselves to say “our agenda has waited since 1932, it can wait a few more minutes today while we stand up for something more immediately important.” They’re extremists by nature and their army has to be advancing, Patton style, holding nothing, never retreating, never standing still, always going forward, brooking no delays.
If you’re a liberal in good standing, and you say hey hold up, let’s stand up for what’s right even if it’s at a (negligible) cost to our incremental progress…guess what? You’re no longer a liberal in good standing. To even acknowledge a priority conflict exists, is to make yourself into a pariah.
How often do I hear conservatives say “this fight is important to me, and this guy over here I agree with on most things…but we cannot tolerate things like what he just said.” Mmmm…I think it’s fair to say, just about as often as the matter arises. Right?
I’m confused yet again. Who are the moderates and who are the extremists?
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Aaaaaaaand….. here’s where I swing back to the “liberalism is just high school writ large” position in the endless debate I have in my head over whether it’s immaturity or conscious malice that best explains leftist behavior. ‘Cause you know who else absolutely positively has to have everything rightfrickinnow?
Teenagers.
They don’t have the life experience yet to distinguish between a minor irritation and a world-historical injustice. They consider “why can’t I give starving Sudanese kids my college fund?” to be a valid question and a noble sentiment, and not letting them use the car on weekends might as well be mass murder as far as they’re concerned. They’re brutally uncompromising, in the way only someone who has been handed every single thing he ever had in his entire life can be. The world would be so much nicer if people were better to each other, and it’s really just. that. easy….
Liberals are both extreme, and extremely naive. Just like kids. I guess the real question becomes: how do you make it into your 30s (or 40s or 50s or, in the case of fossils like Helen Thomas, your 90s!) without becoming a whit more mature than you were at 15?
- Severian | 02/08/2011 @ 15:05Severian,
Late to the party as usual, but I couldn’t let your remark pass. I’ve been making this precise argument for quite some months now. High school, indeed….
Another noteworthy phenomenon is that the immaturity of virtually every female liberal I’ve ever encountered seems to hinge on getting it just right this time, along with life-long resentment of the cheerleaders and cute girls in general. I have a 70-year-old sister……
The fact that this can be sustained well into middle age and beyond seems without irony to them. Combine this with the well-documented rage that lurks barely behind the Tolerance and Understanding, and it’s perfectly encapsulated by Michael Savage’s observation that Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder.
- rob | 02/08/2011 @ 20:26Rob,
so it was you I stole that from! I was trying to remember who said it, something to the effect of “liberalism is a lifelong quest to go back and make high school turn out right.” Perfect.
As I said, I swing back and forth on the issue, but right now I’m much more in the “wanting to redo high school” camp. The “thoughtful” liberals I know often remind me of very clever high school debate club kids — their arguments make a superficial kind of sense, and you find yourself nodding along and halfway agreeing, until all of a sudden you hear that needle-scratch sound in your head and say “wait a minute, no actual human society has ever worked that way, because people just aren’t like that.”
At least with kids, their sincerity can be charming — not all of life’s slings and arrows have hit them yet, and they’re just so darn bright-eyed and hopeful. When it’s some fifty-year-old ponytailed professor driving his Lexus SUV to and from a gated community to preach class warfare at captive undergrads, though….
- Severian | 02/09/2011 @ 15:01