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 you’re not reading blogger friend Andy’s place, you’re missing a lot. Here at The Blog That Nobody Reads, we somewhat often get compliments to the effect of “That’s precisely what I was thinking, I just didn’t know how to say it.” If this is some kind of a food chain, Andy would be on the next link up, because we’ve been noticing this for awhile but we didn’t know how to say it:
The liberal response to pure entertainment, of the drama kind, when the good guys start acting like conservatives and the bad guys act like liberals — it is peculiar. It seems to go right over their heads. FrankJ once said (somewhere) something to the effect of “I’m confused, when they watch ’24’ do they root against Jack Bauer?”
Andy wonders if they like westerns:
Whether he is a crooked town sheriff or the leader of a pack of bandits, the villain of the Western is a fan of punishment by death, likes guns, is sometimes even clean-cut and well-dressed (because crime has been paying), physically bland or unattractive, and everything a liberal might look at and think “Oooh, evil conservative crook!”
Meanwhile, the hero is often a disheveled mess of a “bad boy” type, a little too good-looking to be realistic, coming off of a drug or booze bender, and expected by the town people to swoop on in and save the day all by his lonesome. Naturally, the liberal sees this and shouts “Hey, he’s one of us!”
But watch out, because the evil conservative villain actually terrorizes entire town populations by telling them how to run their saloons and feed stores, taking a cut of their profits, and dictating how much they are allowed to earn, all while be being followed around slavishly by a bunch of underlings who he has made sure are inferior to him in as many ways as possible. You don’t get much more left-wing than that.
And the hero? Just a guy tired of seeing people being tyrannized by a spineless bully. He has a pretty clear idea of how to get the town people back in charge of their own affairs, and he just wants to hang around long enough to set that in motion and be on his way. If making a fool of the bad guy is in the cards, too, then so be it. But the goal is always to restore control to the citizens, and once he has done that, he leaves them to prosper or fail of their own accord. Sure, sometimes he stays on and runs a business or becomes sheriff, but he minds his own pretty well. Sounds conservative to me.
Also up, is a delightful post about Hyperactive Presumptive Disorder Diagnosis Syndrome, which must be a first cousin to my own concoction of Obsessive Compulsive Bullshit Alphabet Soup Acronym Shopping and Behavioral Disability Invention Impulse (OCBASASBDII).
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Thanks a million, Morgan. I have both you and big G linking me today. Bracing myself for a record. I may hit 200 hundred visits for the first time.
- Andy | 01/08/2010 @ 09:28Andy, that IS a good one. I need to send that to a friend of mine.
Morgan, Re: Jack Bauer (and you know, I know about the show but I’ve only seen a few episodes)…. I got into a comment thread a day or two ago … somewhere on the net (because Someone On the Internet Was WRONG!!!! 😉 ) over the article’s basic assertion (headline, actually) …. “Torture-Loving Conservative Elites” (yeah, it was a Think Progress column) … and it hit me.
Do they really think that because we condone extreme interrogation measures in certain, very limited instances that are recognizable as exceptions to policy …. that we LOVE torture?
And the Jack Bauer thing popped into my head. I mean, what sane human being, liberal or not (hey, maybe that’s the rub) thinks that every government on the planet never resorts to it in exceptional circumstance? People look at that kind of behavior with Jack Bauer, or a cop on Hill Street Blues, and they’re like, “f*ck yeah!” Because they trust the judgement of the character doing the interrogating. Bad guy is bad. Obviously! Need info. Get it.
My bet is that if they’d found out about it happening under Bill Clinton, it would have been a whole different ball game.
The issue really was their seething hatred for Bush, and that goes back to the extremely close 2000 election (not that there weren’t already hugely different standards from these people between Presidents with a D after their names and Presidents with an R after their names).
I firmly believe that the extra strength vitriol we saw over the 8 Bush years goes back to that. It was personal, blinding, single-minded hatred.
This is why it does matter what the character of the people we elect is. And by character, I mean integrity, ethics, and judgement. When you’re making exeptions to rules, and what reasonable person thinks that exceptions should never be made … you want Solomon, or someone as close as you can get to him, sitting in that chair making the call. You want it done judiciously.
And, incidentally, this whole argument goes for judges as well.
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