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...
[W]e’ve become a culture where earning money doesn’t entitle you to it; but wanting it does…
Or, as Charles Payne put it:
* The harder I work the more I owe society.
* The less I work the more society owes me.
How did we get here? By the efforts of people who feel an intense terror down to the marrow of their bones at the slightest suggestion of the formula all thinking men and women know to be unalterably true:
Every significant enterprise we’ve seen from this government since January 20, 2009 has been an exercise in willful avoidance of this.
What motivates people to avoid it? Pain. Hard work to be expended tomorrow is easy; hard work to be expended today is a terrible prospect. Hard work that was avoided yesterday is a profound regret. Too many of us have pasts filled with three, four, five-hour blocks spent watching the idjit-box…knowing, deep down inside, that this expenditure of time, now lost forever, might have been spent creating wealth. They don’t need anyone to tell them. They know.
So they lash out at whoever didn’t do it that way. “Rich get richer, poor get poorer.” “Took advantage of a tax loophole.” “Not contributing their/his/her fair share.”
But aw gee…something about circumstances. Opportunities. Didn’t go to college, couldn’t graduate from high school, blah blah blah.
That’s my own tune, actually. I’m a high school grad myself, come from the wrong side of the tracks. It isn’t that my sympathy for this is low; it’s more like in a state of decline. And you know what? It damn well should be.
We’re not Oliver Twist. This isn’t London in the 1840’s. You can grab a nice laptop for $300, and software that will make it useful for something for another $100. Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, anything else you want is just a mouse-click away, and free.
That’s not to say getting a job is easy in Obama’s America. It isn’t. But getting the skills? You just have to want to, and that’s as good-as-done. Oh yes, I agree you could call that something of a trite and ignorant statement in times past. But it’s certainly true now. Work and wait, work and wait, make some good decisions, and you’ve got a valuable and salable skill.
You doubt me? Resurrect some guy from 200 years ago who had to grow his own vegetables to stay alive; bounce the idea off him, after you’ve disclosed what exactly this “Internet” is. Then try whining at him about how tough you’ve got it.
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High school drop out
Marine Corps Corporal
Community College Graduate
Small Business Owner
Too busy waving the flag of ‘America is the land of opportunity’ to find the time to whine about what an evil place it is.
- tim | 04/19/2011 @ 10:21Now THAT’S a bumpersticker.
- philmon | 04/19/2011 @ 19:27