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...
Crusading Against Absolutes
Joey Vento sells cheesesteak sandwiches in Philadelphia, but only to people who speak English. How ’bout that?
Vento, whose grandparents struggled to learn English after immigrating from Sicily in the 1920s, said his staff is glad to help non-native speakers order in English and no one has been turned away because of a language barrier.
“I don’t see much of a big deal about learning to say Cheez Whiz,” he told ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” on Friday.
He’s an absolutist. He says if you’re here in America, your loyalties should be to America, and to nowhere else. That’s a little bit too much absolutism for some people, including some goo-gooder on the city council. Way too much absolutism…but hey, what would you call “thou shalt take down thy sign if it isn’t politically correct”? What do you call that? What do you call some artificially-energized drive to clean up any and all 5″ x 8″ placards from a huge sprawling megalopolis like Philly, anything that some busybody council member might not like?
Granted, there are more than a few people think the sign is pretty terrible. One guy in the video clip you may be able to watch, thinks it’s “a little racist.” What a pinhead. What color is English may I ask?
A City Council member jumped into the debate over a sign at one of Philadelphia’s best-known cheesesteak joints that reads: “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING ‘SPEAK ENGLISH.'”
During the council’s meeting Thursday, Councilman Jim Kenney asked Geno’s owner Joseph Vento to take the small sign down. The English-only ordering sign has irritated some activists in the diverse neighborhood of South Philadelphia and drawn national attention.
“It’s such an iconic institution and business, one that is that visible for many of our residents, for the region and the world,” Kenney said.
Wouldn’t want those activists to be irritated. Asshole.
Watch the interview linked above. Go ahead, watch it. I didn’t see one racist thing slip past this fellow’s lips. Not ONE.
Why should he take down his sign? Go ahead, give me one well-thought out argument. Just one.
Hat tip to Malkin for this one.
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I’d eat here JUST BECAUSE of the sign!!!
If just one of these days we could get that handful out there to stop deciding what is and isn’t good for us – what is or isn’t “politically correct” we’d be a whole lot further ahead of the ball than we are right now.
What will it finally, finally take for Americans to sit up and notice? Apparently, 9/11 wasn’t quite enough.
Whoops… Sometimes I rant… And, if that switch gets stuck on on…
- Sabra | 06/09/2006 @ 23:52