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...
If I could identify one thing about liberals that is more alarming than all the rest, this would make the top three or four I’m quite sure:
This uneasy relationship they have to the ancient and simple concept of a crime that demands punishment. It is, forgive the pun, a “tortured” relationship. In the vast pantheon of crimes that one man can commit against another, it would seem there are tiers of crime, and the tier has very little to do with the magnitude of damage caused. All but a few transgressions fall into some more modest “Yeah-But” plateau. As in, yeah this guy broke into that other guy’s house…but the other guy should have just let ‘im get away, at least then nobody would get hurt. Or — yeah, this guy mugged and raped a woman, but he’s a product of his upbringing, he is not to blame.
Yeah, that dictator over there may be a threat to us and he may be oppressing his own people…but if we went after him, we’d only be doing it for the oil, and anyway we would almost certainly become exactly what it is we are trying to defeat. Better to leave well enough alone.
And then there is that superior tier, of crimes against the philosophy of liberalism itself.
There is no “Yeah-But” get-outta-jail-free card here.
This falls into that larger file folder of liberals wanting “all” of society to operate under one set of rules, and the elite crust of that society operating under a different set of rules. Crimes against you, and your family, and your friends, should be let go. You need to heal, to grow, to get past it, and the only way you can get past it is to let the miscreant go. Let the original offense go unavenged. Because when you seek revenge, you’re just poisoning yourself.
All that Mahatma-Ghandi shit goes sailing out the window at breakneck speed, when the victim of a crime is liberal philosophy itself. The Ghandi-nonsense is histoire. Misdeeds, all of a sudden, absolutely, positively must be avenged. Letting it go…moving on…out of the question. It’s the principle of the thing, dammit! The world has to be shown that our way is the right way, and it must be shown this by force.
Liberals act very much like conservatives this way. They act like something somewhat above-and-beyond conservatism, this way.
With this inconsistency, liberalism fails to achieve even the minimal standard of what it most energetically strives to be: Be something for which knowledgeable and conscientious people can cast a vote.
Update: I should say something about Ted’s passing I suppose. The “liberal lion of the Senate” provided the younger generation with a striking vision, an invaluable lesson for young and old alike. That lesson being: A lot of people aren’t at peace with themselves, so they try to soothe their consciences by supporting bad public policies. Don’t be like that.
It’s a good lesson.
Didja ever notice, when hardcore left-wing types start describing someone with something that starts with “the conscience of the”…it always seems to be someone that, generally speaking, regardless of the position the rest of us occupy on the ideological spectrum — none of us would want watching our kids?
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