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...
This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President yesterday.
It is not clear what the book was, where it came from in the crowd, or why it was thrown at Mr Obama – who did not appear to notice the danger.
But it is expected that there will be fallout from the security breach as the Secret Service investigates how close the President came to danger.
The rally was clearly an eventful one – other images showed a naked man being led away in handcuffs by police.
It is not clear if the man was involved in the book-throwing incident – or why he was not wearing any clothes.
The bizarre incident recalled the moment in 2008 when an angry Iraqi journalist hurled a shoe at then-U.S. President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.
The surprisingly nimble Mr Bush ducked the shoe – and the moment became immortalised with online parodies and internet video games.
But the incident was also marked with controversy as U.S. media questioned why the Secret Service – whose members are supposed to be willing to take a bullet for the President – were not close enough to Mr Bush to deflect the attack.
Pffft. They weren’t close enough to deflect the attack because there’s only one position that’s that close. Not wanting to be crass or vulgar about it, but I didn’t bring this up — that position was reserved for Laura Bush.
All the Secret Service can do is screen the crowd. Screening is an exercise in approximation.
Life’s got risks. From the photo, I am detecting a curve to the covers of the book, which strongly implies it is a paperback. What was the potential damage here? A cardboard paper-cut to the back of the neck? A soft bruise in the corner of the temple where the stem of the binding struck first? Martin Luther King and JFK extend their sympathies…
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In the Truther spirit I have to point out that this was an inside job gone wrong. It’s clearly an advance reading copy of Pledge to America and, had it struck, would have been worth two senate seats, six house seats, and a 20 point bump up in the polls. The agent who threw it is probably sleeping with the fishes right now.
- vanderleun | 10/11/2010 @ 08:52What was the potential damage here?
Remember what Mom always said: “You could put somebody’s eye out with that!”
- bpenni | 10/11/2010 @ 09:21That appears to be the pocket version of the Constitution, which has never managed contact with Obama in any form.
- jamzw | 10/11/2010 @ 10:33Talk about change you can believe in. We’ve gone from angry Iraqis throwing shoes at our President to fat naked guys throwing books at our President. That’s Change, man!
- philmon | 10/11/2010 @ 11:05I’m a little surprised no one has pointed out the obvious:
I recall after Bush ducked the shoe, even the many people who detested him by then had to offer him grudging props for the quick reflexes. Not the athletic performance of your average Village Idiot, by a damn sight.
You would expect the demigod who succeeded the V.I. to clean up all his messes, by a holy confluence of Divine Will and the people’s thirst for Hopenchange, to at least show some glimmer of knowledge that the projectile approacheth. From all I have read about it the appearance is that His Eminence never even knew what happened. Quite a disappointment after seeing the Crawford dimbulb’s cat-like reflexes.
- mkfreeberg | 10/11/2010 @ 11:17Remember Jay Leno’s joke about the shoe-throwing incident? “Everyone’s saying that throwing your shoes at someone is a huge insult in the Arab world. Yeah, as opposed to here, where it’s a huge compliment.”
- cylarz | 10/11/2010 @ 11:42