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...
Asst. Fire Chief Steve Fair with the Ferguson Fire Department said they found structure fires along the corridor of Florissant, West Florissant, and Halls Ferry roads.
“We have been fighting approximately 25 structure fires tonight, along with a car dealership where we lost 10 cars that were burned up,” said Fair.
They had a map up at that site at one point…
We’re getting a lesson here about what civilization is, what it takes to make it happen, what it takes to keep it going. And what its problems are in this age of mass communication. Too many people want to be a part of it, insofar as they can collect benefits from being part of it. The part of their credo that doesn’t work goes something like “Alright, but keep in mind no decisions can be allowed to stand that we don’t happen to like. My smaller clique wants veto power over everything.”
I see over on the Hello Kitty of Blogging, some of my friends have sympathy for the thug that got himself shot. They say their sympathies are not with the looters, but I’m not sure you can cut it that way.
I keep hearing about how “we need more accountability.” Huh. Well what about the news agencies that played up the drama angle on this story, to the hilt, in the days running up to the grand jury’s decision? ALL DAY. EVERY DAY. Misusing the miracle of mass communication to give the tension a higher, and higher, and higher profile.
This is how you kill civilization. We can certainly see this happening in smaller units, in families for example. In dysfunctional families, one common factor that runs through all of them is that attention is reserved for those who are constantly spoiling to start fights, therefore, big issues are made out of things that really are not so big. Some within the family can see what’s happening and don’t want to contribute to the problem, but their solution is to retreat to a safe distance, therefore to make themselves inconsequential. The bulk of the influence therefore goes to the co-dependents, to the dysfunctional individuals and their enablers.
That’s what happened here. I don’t wish to be insensitive about this, but the point of origin, really, was not so big. A thug rushed a cop who was, fortunately, armed. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t rush at cops with guns. If you don’t want your kids to get shot, don’t let them grow up to become thugs.
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