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...
Fellow Right Wing News contributor William Teach brings us an interesting one:
Nothing like coordinated anarchists to say anarchy
ROME – A loosely linked movement of European anarchists who want to bring down state and financial institutions is becoming more violent and coordinated after decades out of the spotlight, and may be responding to social tensions spawned by the continent’s financial crisis, security experts say.
Italian police said Tuesday that letter bombs were sent to three embassies in Rome by Italian anarchists in solidarity with jailed Greek anarchists, who had asked their comrades to organize and coordinate a global “revolutionary war.” [emphasis in Teach’s]
“Let’s all work together for anarchy!”
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Heh.
- philmon | 12/30/2010 @ 07:46To be fair, there’s actually a rather complicated philosophical theory behind capital-A Anarchism. Just ask any sophomore philosophy major with a black trench coat and a ponytail.
But screw fair. To be honest, I actually have a teeny tiny sliver of respect for the guys in this story. Their cause is stupid and evil, to be sure, and I really hope the Italian police dance a polka on their spleens before throwing them into the deepest, dankest, nastiest dungeon they can find… but still: they’re acting, and with a coherent motive, and with malice aforethought.
This implies that they’ve put at least some thought into their positions, and that they’re at least willing to take the consequences of their actions.
Our homegrown small-a anarchists in the media, the universities, and the Democratic Party (I repeat myself twice, of course), on the other hand, spend most of their time lashing out mindlessly at ambient civilization. Take DADT repeal, for example, just because it’s been in the news lately. I’d bet a nice big wad of cash that most commenters here could make a coherent case for it, arguing from first principles — the Constitution, the obligations of the citizen the the republic and vice versa, classical arguments for the military virtues, etc. But I have yet to hear any real, serious argument from any leftist on the subject — it’s just “homophobe” this and “bigot” that. And now that it’s happened, we’ll never hear anything about it again. Do umpteen open gays really want to serve in the military? How do the rank and file feel ten years later? What are the results of homosexual integration on unit cohesion and combat performance? I for one would actually like to know, since the results either way should tell us interesting things about group dynamics. Leftists, on the other hand, having stuck their finger in the eye of the hated military, will just move on to the next outrage.
In other words, if there’s a single actual thought— as opposed to feeling or notion or hissy fit — behind modern American liberalism, I’ve yet to find it.
I have no doubt that these Italian anarchist SOB’s can tell you exactly what they think is wrong with “The System,” and why. Their “ideas” should be heard, so that they can be loudly, clearly, and publicly refuted. If conservatives were half as handy with canned refutations of Anarchism, Marxism, etc. as liberals are with their talking-point lists of American / capitalist injustices, we’d be living in a far better world. So, too, should the anarchists’ punishments be made public, if and when (god willing) they’re caught. Ideas have consequences. Our American liberals are familiar with neither. I say we put these self-parodying clowns to good use.
- Severian | 12/30/2010 @ 09:08How do the rank and file feel ten years later?
Hang out at some milbogs, Severian, and you’ll get your answer. It’s been over 20 years since women were “integrated” into the forces (there’s the direct combat exception, of course) and some are still arguing about it, everyone has an opinion on the subject, and a lot of those opinions ain’t PC, to say the very LEAST. The DADT thingie is gonna be the same thing, trust me.
- bpenni | 12/30/2010 @ 11:58Buck,
Oh, I’m sure it will still be an issue inside the military. I just thought that Our Betters in civilian life would want to know that their little social engineering experiment is working out. I sure would, if I were them. After all, if the only reason anyone could ever possibly object to open homosexuals in the military is bigotry, I’d be chomping at the bit to see the evidence that proves all those reich-wing troglodytes wrong. “Combat effectiveness?” I’d say. “Bah! We’ve had open gays in the military for ten years now, and our fighting forces are in better shape than ever! Why, I have a nonpartisan study right here, thoroughly vetted by an independent group, which indicates that our soldiers are 32% better at their jobs than before!” Etc. etc.
You know, if I really cared about the troops and all. And if I really, truly believed that DADT was the burning civil rights issue of our time, because of Teh Equality and all that. Hell, you couldn’t get me to shut up for love or money about how great our new gay-friendly military is if that were the case…. kinda like how you can’t walk past a recruiting station these days without some liberal handing you a study proving how much more effective our forces are now that women are fully “integrated,” because boy weren’t those knuckle-dragging conservatives wrong about that one, too!
- Severian | 12/30/2010 @ 13:48