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...
Not sure why people say this is a boring topic. It’s fascinating to me, endlessly fascinating, that the makers-of-rules know with laser precision exactly what the rules should be regarding gallons, inches, times-of-day, pools, car-washing, watering lawns, washing walls…and yet are completely-freakin’-lost about how to enforce it all.
I mean, it’s all understandable in some way. It’s the sequence that baffles me. I come from another planet, third one from the star, inhabited by homo sapiens that have red blood; in my corner of the universe, enforcement tactics would come first and the parameters would come later.
Who the heck are these people? Where do you find them?
“Six to nine p.m., that certainly ought to do it! Another successful session of rule-making, we are to be congratulated! Okay, now how do we enforce?”
You were all “hall monitors” back in high school, weren’t you?
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Water cops will get less in evidence after they start feeling the quick breeze and hearing the pop-pop-pop. Count on them staying out of South Central and points Ghetto.
- vanderleun | 07/17/2014 @ 10:27This is incredibly dorky, I know, but relevant — give James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State a gander. It’s about as well-written as an academic book can be, and it explains the thought process of the world-savers quite well.
- Severian | 07/17/2014 @ 11:10I read the exact same AP article with the same photos on a different site that allowed comments. It was interesting to me that the number of times “Delta Smelt” and “Millions of gallons” of water were mentioned in the article was zero, while the “uneducated masses” made that point immediately and consistently.
- P_Ang | 07/17/2014 @ 15:30Did the caption REALLY say “…investigate a moist gutter?”
He had to move a murder victim covered in documents proving government fraud, in order to get at the evidence of the important crime…
- Robert Arvanitis | 07/18/2014 @ 07:08“Difficulty with enforcement” makes me nervous for two reasons. One, it’s a symptom of a bad law.
Two, if ever some Darth Vader knucklehead comes up with a way to enforce that is even slightly plausible, even if only on paper…he’s going to look like a fucking hero who managed to solve the “real” problem. And, don’t anybody even think about opening up a specific enforcement incident to challenge. It was really, really hard to figure out how to enforce this thing!
“Then perhaps I can find new ways to motivate them!” — Return of the Jedi
- mkfreeberg | 07/18/2014 @ 07:18“For I am George Costanza…Lord of the Idiots!”
- P_Ang | 07/18/2014 @ 09:00“…and suddenly a new Contender emerges…”
-Seinfeld
First thing that crossed my mind seeing this: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-couple-conserves-amid-drought-could-face-fine-201644396.html