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...
Hey I’ll say this for Alec Baldwin (see earlier post). He’s a better dad than this guy…so far as I know…
Let’s set it up: It’s two winters ago. Someone hears some crying in an air shaft. They find a baby. Someone does some digging to find out how the baby got there, and it turns out Lucila Ventura chucked the baby down the air shaft.
Then, they find out her father, Jose, told her to do that. Yeah, you guessed it. Daddy is the daddy.
And the kicker? There was an older, mummified baby next to the one that was louder and luckier.
The boy survived but the next day investigators found a second, mummified baby in the shaft and DNA testing determined the baby girl was also the child of Jose and Lucila Venture. Homicide investigators said the baby girl’s body had been in the shaft more than a year before it was discovered, officials said.
And here you have the kind of thing you need to ignore to oppose the death penalty. Opposition to the death penalty, it turns out, is based on hope that the human species is better than it really is. Better and purer. At some point, hope becomes ignorance; dangerous ignorance. We have people like Jose Ventura. It’s simply a fact. Approve of it or disapprove of it, reality will just trudge on in complete apathy toward your thoughts.
But we can protect the innocent from people like him. And any argument that there’s some noble purpose for continuing to let him burn oxygen and use up good vital organs, is doomed to enjoy somewhat less promising lifetime ambitions than a baby stuck in an airshaft. Such an argument can come from nowhere and go nowhere. It’s simply a self-supporting assertion some people prefer to support because they don’t want to confront truth.
Really. People who are opposed to the death penalty, entitled to their personal opinions as they may be, shouldn’t vote. They really shouldn’t.
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