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...
So Breitbart.com has gotten ahold of a video from 1995:
This is really the divide between conservatives and liberals, in the modern age, right there. Not the gun thing. Well, not primarily anyway; there is a disagreement there, and there’s some importance to the disagreement, but that’s a distraction. Righties and lefties agree on the observed problem: Bored dumb young people are saturated with messages which compel them to make predictable choices that are not good. The conservative says, I see the problem, the young people are dumb and susceptible to these messages because they are bored. You know you’ve got a problem when these kids are sent down to the movie theater on a Friday, and by Saturday they’re trying to get hold of things they saw in the movie. Liberal says no, the problem is what the message is — we have to change it so the messages are “more productive.” Meaning, oh there’s another Archimedean lever that can be used to move the world, and the liberal’s hands aren’t the ones on the lever…that’s the real problem, as far as they’re concerned. Somewhere there’s a cockpit with all the pedals and steering wheels and push buttons, and they’re not the ones in it.
This is the Architect/Medicator divide, because the difference in world-visions has to do with recognition of a project perimeter. Holder, being a Medicator, doesn’t acknowledge such a perimeter; everything, everywhere, that is not being done the Eric Holder way is an unfinished task. I’ve learned from many mutually-frustrating conversations with Medicators that there is no end to the genuine angst they will feel about things being done in ways different from the ways they’d be doing them, if only they were the ones doing them. They just get hotter and hotter about it, like a nuclear reactor core melting down and burning its way to China.
Eventually you just have to face facts: All the trouble starts with their knowledge. They learn about the thing being done differently from the way they’d be doing it if it was theirs to do, and from that moment they’re doomed to this endless-circle round-robin of getting more and more pissed off. The only solution is to keep them in the dark, for their own good. So who’s the jackass who told Eric Holder about these movies?
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Isn’t there a character on South Park who would say something like, “Guns are bad, m’kay?”
See, this is all we need do. With more than several iterations. Prollem fixed.
- TMI | 03/19/2012 @ 12:00.