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...
Whenever the objection is made that LeftLibProgism has failed everywhere it has been tried, the response is always that it just wasn’t tried on a large enough scale. This is the argument that the cure for bad pop music is to just make it louder. The implied endgame is that only when the entire world is remade in the LeftLibProg model, “world without end always,” will the promised utopia arrive. Hence the wrecking ball of LeftLibProg economics must be swung against the pillars of civilization until the whole structure comes tumbling in upon itself. With help from the scions of greed at the far end of maxi-capitalism this vision currently has a whisper of a hope of actually happening.
Commenter elaine adds:
The thing that made America different was the idea (reality?) that class isn’t fixed; that we can move up or down the economic ladder. This isn’t true in other countries. Even now, if you make money in most of the world, you still can’t live down your humble roots. You see some of that snobbery in America today, and it seems most often to be espoused by LeftLibProgs. Oh, they usually couch it in more clever or subtle terms, but that’s what it really boils down to.
Michelle Obama’s childhood obesity initiative — that obesity is a national security issue if all those poor and middle class males are too fat to be soldiers — smacks of this attitude, that the poor and middle class white males aren’t fit for anything better than to be used as cannon fodder for the whos of this nation. They don’t have the right to open their own businesses and be their own men, if they were born into families of humble means…
It’s fast becoming clear to me that many of the LeftLibProgs in high places see the rest of us as pawns they play with on a chess board. Serfs who make the goods and pay the taxes to support their lavish lifestyles. They don’t care about us, though they’re adequate at pretending to. (Clinton’s “I feel your pain” comes to mind as an example.)
For too long, we’ve bought it. Every time they’ve framed the debate in more winning terms, the rubes have fallen for it. “It’s for the children” — say that, and you’ve won the argument. So the teachers in Madison have called in sick and deprived their students of their lessons, but those teachers are selflessly striking “for the children”…
It would be laughable, if the underlying problem weren’t so serious.
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