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...
Of course the New York Times explaining to Republicans what their options are is a little bit like the spider giving the fly navigational instructions.
If you just can’t get enough of C-Span’s daytime programming and are inclined to watch all of the speechifying at the annual gathering of conservative activists here this week, then keep in mind that these potential Republican presidential candidates face a choice in the earliest months of this nascent campaign.
They can either tell the rebellious, angry base of their party exactly what it craves to hear, or they can tell the base what they think it needs to hear in order to win. Down one path lies affection and applause. Down the other, just maybe, lies the presidency.
Why does this interest anyone? Well, I know why it interests me: It’s a window into a newsroom…or conference room…or around a water cooler…crammed full of silly liberals. It is a recording of the silly thoughts that find natural resonance there.
There’s nothing extreme or angry about saying, hey there are a lot of states going broke and our federal government’s deficit is becoming manageable assuming it hasn’t already been unmanageable for several years now — maybe more government spending is not the solution to every li’l problem after all.
If you read this piece, you find it goes on to compare this simple philosophy to Howard Dean’s “Yeeeaaaarrrrrggghhhh!!!” moment. Seriously.
Why am I even linking it. Well, I think it’s important that people understand this; they don’t realize how incredibly out of touch the Manhattan ink-and-electron purple-necktie media really is. The only explanation I can see for this batch of codswallop finding its way under my nose, is that these clowns really do live, literally and figuratively, on an island. Outside of that island they only acknowledge Washington, DC, and that place only grudgingly. They figure out what is going to happen based almost entirely on what it is they’d like to see happen. And then, when what happens is completely different, they forget all about it. When they’re forced to recollect it, they engage in a little bit of creative rewriting of history to blend what really happened with what they wanted to see happen…and then they erase everything that is not exactly like the blend.
They do not sanity-check each other, any more than one of George Lucas’ minions sanity-checked him about Jar Jar Binks. If there was some kind of “peer review,” formal or informal, someone somewhere would’ve said those magic words: “Dude…you just compared more freedom & lower taxes to Howard Fucking Dean.”
I really don’t understand why anybody pays good money for this.
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