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...
Fan Mail
It’s just too good to let go. It’s a comment by FARK user EvelFarknievel who, hell, could be a thirteen-year-old mentally-challenged kid for all I know. And he, who says “If you are a Republican, I hate you and wish great suffering for you and your fellow Republicans,” goes on quite a tear. It always pleases me to read how incredibly wealthy and privileged I am.
Morgan Freeberg has an opinion about everything in his conservative – celebrated blog. And if you disagree with him, he’ll try to paint you as a “liberal” who hates America. In this thread he’s just called all of us who disagree with him stupid. If he could now just make up some lies about us, and say we’re all soft on terrorism, he could apply for a job with the Bush Admionistration.
He doesn’t realize that most of us can go toe-to-toe with him intellectually. His sprawling intellect is perceptively diminished by his failure to actually think for himself.
Mr. Freeberg is not part of the problem. He and people like him are *ALL* of the problem. He and his rich, white, fellow Republicans sit around counting their money and feeling smug that they are so much smarter than the rest of us while blindly following the new dictator of America.
He is reading this now and scoffing at the use of the word dictator as overblown hype, not realizing that history has proven the course of action currently being undertaken by this administration has proven in history to be disastrous over and over and over. And over.
He probably thinks the war was a good idea. He probably thinks the deficit is simply a necessary by-product of the genius of this administration. He undoubtedly thinks the Constitution is just an outdated piece of paper that has no place in today’s world.
He thinks this because he feels safe for now.
But while he is feeling safe and supporting the Administration, they are taking advantage of that, and Mr. Freeberg’s freedoms are quietly disappearing. And like people of other countries who have blindly supported the degrading of freedom by a corrupt, power hungry administration, he will eventually wake up one day and realize how terribly wrong he was and be full of regret.
I actually envy him. I’ll bet he gets more sleep at night than I do, because he doesn’t worry what kind of world is being created for his children. He thinks everything is fine. I wish I could lie to myself that way. I’d sleep a lot better.
Blah blah blah…yeah, not exactly an overture to an exchange of reasoned ideas, is it? Looks more like a plea for high-fives and pats on the back from his liberal buddies. Which, in that thread, I didn’t see forthcoming, but I did call out to his attention that apparently he can put words in other peoples’ mouths, while I’m not allowed to do the same thing. Which, interestingly, was supposed to be the entire focus of his complaint about me.
Ah, well. The topic under discussion was the irrational ravings of Keith Olbermann. That could have been Olbermann himself, using a pseudonym.
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I’ve never met you. All I know about you is what I’ve read, and what I’ve read tells me this person is way off. Throwing away your freedom piece by piece? I don’t get that impression at all. Sounds to me like this person wants to remove some of your freedoms. Kind of like those people at Columbia who wouldn’t let the Minutemen say their piece.
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- Lockjaw45 | 10/07/2006 @ 10:46