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...
Speaking of Doolittle: I was scrolling back over his archives to see if he should be added to the blogroll. His talking points, even if he doesn’t agree with their substance, are good ones and this suggests a capable mind. We have lefty blogs in our blogroll…quite a few…whoever I find that can put out stuff with regularity that makes you stop and go “hmmm.”
So while I was trying to figure out if Doolittle made the cut, I came across a note of celebration about that goofy survey that says America’s “stature” in the world has been on the rise.
Here’s what Neal Boortz had to say about it:
This one is not too hard to figure out. We go back to the Pew Research poll conducted in Europe in 2008. That poll showed that nearly 60% of Europeans wanted the United States to be weaker. They didn’t like the US being as strong in economic and worldwide political affairs as we were. Soooooo … along comes Barack Obama, and at every turn he projects American weakness. He trashes the European missile defense system. He kowtows to Russia’s Putin. He absolutely fails to take a strong stance on Iran and their nuclear ambitions. He disengages from Iraq and continues to show indecisiveness in Afghanistan. The shrinks at the sight of Hugo Chavez. He won’t meet with the Dalai Lama because it might make the Chinese mad. Weakness at every turn … just exactly what the respondents to the poll said they wanted! A weaker United States!
So now our popularity in Europe is on the way up! Really tough to figure out why, isn’t it?
Given that context, Doolittle’s foam rubber finger looks a little bit…how shall we say it…out of place.
It’s also a betrayal of the ultimate left-wing dichotomy. When liberals promote liberal ideas, they behave in a way that directly contradicts what they’re trying to make other people do. Liberals, promoting their ideas over conservative ideas, behave exactly the way they claim conservatives behave. And it’s probably because they start thinking in exactly the way they claim conservatives think. Something to do with “we are so so so very right and those other guys are so so so very wrong.” And “hooray for our side.” And “us forever.” Foam-rubber-finger stuff.
I let the post sit there without bothering to comment on it, figuring it would get along just fine without the benefit of my wisdom.
Um….
Ha ha. You know better than that. But I did spread a thick layer of subtlety over my point, laced with a strong dose of verbal irony.
Love that foam rubber finger. It’s somewhat at odds, though, with the ideals that have raised our country’s status so much in these post-Bush months. You know, the ideals that made the country great in the first place…written into the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Humility. Diversity. Classic femininity. Submission. Willingness to admit our mistakes, and talking endlessly about them as if no other country has made any, even when it’s grossly off-topic. Cutting our carbon emissions. Making deals with people who want to kill us. Arugula. Yes, these are exactly what America has always been about, and it’s high time we got back to it. No wonder the world loves us again.
And yes, as a matter of fact I did have fun writing that.
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It’s just that it’s the wrong finger….
- rob | 10/10/2009 @ 10:50Disagree.
In My Humble Opinion-
It’s a matter of Liberals behaving as badly as they ALWAYS do, and “suddenly” finding emboldenment (made that word up) in projecting their own worst recognizable faults onto ANY critics, in a desperate Hail Mary preemptive attempt to quietly put at LEAST a borrowed petticoat on their Emperor, and TRY to shuffle the first and second heirs apparent into a closet.
Off Topic-LOOSELY related
- CaptDMO | 10/11/2009 @ 00:44Speaking of fingers pointing to the sky, and writers that consistently make you go hmmmm…
Dan Brown’s latest effort was worth the price for the hardcover… to me, but the usual pre-release “reviews”, by folks that clearly hadn’t read, or even physically touched it, may have pre-seasoned my opinion.
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