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 post previous has me thinking about yet another divide bisecting all of thinking humanity. And like so many of the others, it seems to fall squarely upon the chasm separating Architects from Medicators.
Some of us think a right is something that, when violated, requires and justifies any and all means of intervention, up to and including the invasion of a country.
Others among us think a right is something that, when violated, requires and justifies any and all means of intervention short of violence. At that point, civilized people should go back to what they were doing and allow the right to continue to be violated. Hey, at least you got yours.
Those who think the violation of a right justifies the invasion of a country, define rights minimally. They don’t think a right is a right if it has to cost someone else something.
Those who think the violation of a right justifies peaceful protest only, and then you should go back to what you were doing because at least you got yours, define rights much more broadly. If you have it and want to keep it, or if you don’t have it and you want it, or if you are not in immediate need of it but can see some clear advantages involved in having it, then that’s enough. A “right” it is.
A belief in God is common among those who define rights minimally, and hold violation of these minimal rights to be a justification for war. They distrust bureaucracies.
Those who define rights broadly and enforce them only softly, are overwhelmingly, although perhaps not completely, secular. They trust bureaucracies completely, which is odd because when someone they dislike happens to be in charge of the bureaucracy they are suddenly bursting at the seams with conspiracy theories about how these “wrong” people took over the bureaucracy and have way too much power. It is almost as if…I would say exactly as if…they are spending a lifetime in worship of a replacement deity.
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Liberals: Always one God short of Happiness. Always.
- Andy | 03/10/2010 @ 15:28Others among us think a right is something that, when violated, requires and justifies any and all means of intervention short of violence. At that point, civilized people should go back to what they were doing and allow the right to continue to be violated. Hey, at least you got yours.
The problem with that thinking is that eventually the barbarians will come and take “yours” away too, just like they took away the “others'” stuff before. It’s a shame how many people seem to think that the United States being essentially untouchable by foreign powers, is something that must somehow last forever. Who was it that said freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction?
- cylarz | 03/11/2010 @ 01:42