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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...
Someday, I should make a point of starting a recurring headline that runs something like “What they told me is going on all over the place, and I must not be paying attention because I can’t find any examples” but shorter. (For all that loquacity, I still haven’t defined who the “they” is, and I don’t know if I can.) It’s been a somewhat eventful week, but I’d have no problem picking out the single event from this week that would appear under such a headline — whatever comes in second-place isn’t even close.
The all-time champion phenomenon of the “What they told me is going on everywhere” category for the week ending October 7, 2011 is: The weepy, inconsolable, overly-emotional Sarah Palin fan.
Oh, there may be some somewhere. But it seems like an example or two should have been presented with the recurring meme, and none have been brought, nor can I find any. And I have little reason to expect to. People who place great value on their own emotional state, are not well represented within the Palin fan base; such people all too often hopped on the “She’s so stupid and I just hate her, Grrrr!” bandwagon three years ago. Today, if you want illogical and overly-dramatic reactions to things, you need to go talk to them. And you should; from what I’ve actually seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears, Gov. Palin’s announcement has sent them into something worth studying, for purposes of research into behavioral health science. I’m picking up feelings of euphoria, as if something meaningful has been accomplished, by them, although the only thing that’s changed is a possibility has been eliminated that, according to them, never enjoyed probability significance. And I detect trace quantities of some feeling of betrayal, as if Sarah Palin owed it to them, to run for President.
To the last person, all of the Sarah Palin enthusiasts I know, have reacted coolly and rationally to this: Okay, that’s out, so to whom do we pledge our support? ABO stands for Anybody But Obama. And that’s that. Efficiently, coldly, rationally, if-this-then-that, just like a computer processor. Well…a computer processor with a drive to win, anyway.
Got any exceptions to this? Any Palin fans acting like Michael Jackson fans who just can’t believe the music’s gone, or Barbra Streisand fans who missed the flight to the latest Final Farewell Tour? Go on, educate me. Fix my mistake; I’ll man up.
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Well, count me as one of the “Oh, well, she’s not running – wonder who she’ll endorse” gang. But what I’m really watching for is how the Rs are going to screw this up. It’s their election to lose, after all, and they don’t call ’em the Stupid Party for nothing.
- southernman | 10/08/2011 @ 10:15Got any exceptions to this?
Well, forgive me, but I haven’t been paying much attention (read as: I don’t give a big rat’s ass). But I WILL say Palin did the Right Thing. You’ll note EIP didn’t mention the event whatsoever.
- bpenni | 10/08/2011 @ 10:52I did note that. Good on ya, you’re one of the sincere ones.
But…I also note, there still aren’t any examples of this supposedly widespread phenomenon.
- mkfreeberg | 10/08/2011 @ 10:57Well, forgive me, but I haven’t been paying much attention (read as: I don’t give a big rat’s ass).
You haven’t been paying attention and you claim you don’t give a rat’s ass…yet you STILL felt the need to weigh-in and remind us how relieved you are that she’s not running.
I know I’ll now sleep better tonight.
The weepy, inconsolable, overly-emotional Sarah Palin fan…
Not only have I not seen any, I haven’t even particularly heard of anyone claiming there are any. As you were saying, the ardent Palin fans I know have acted un-surprised at the news. I think somewhere most of us who do like the woman, knew there wasn’t a lot of room for her in a field that already had Bachmann and Perry.
Palin did say some time ago that she’d jump in if there wasn’t anyone else running whom she deemed to be up to her standards of a small-government advocate. Since she’s decided against running, then, that must mean this criterion has been met. I’d like to know who she plans on endorsing, if anyone.
- cylarz | 10/08/2011 @ 21:35There are a few over on Free Republic. How many are real and how many troll, I don’t know and have no great interest in finding out. Personally, I’m sorry she didn’t run, particularly since I think she could still take the current primary field and then beat the Democrat. But after the last three years, I understand why she’s not running and I respect it. And I have a problem with anyone who doesn’t. I and my family weren’t Ground Zero for that excrement storm, she and hers were. When all’s said and done, it’s their lives and their call. As it should be. As it has to be. So…I’ll chill out and see if Cain can hold up, and if any of these other guys can rise up. If so, we’re good. If not…at least in the primary, you know who I’m writing in.
- Rich Fader | 10/09/2011 @ 10:14