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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.
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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.
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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...
Famous lefty blogger Amanda Marcotte, commenting on the Edwards mess (H/T: Dr. Melissa Clouthier).
I’ve been skeptical about the Edwards story from the beginning, not because I think that any random politician is better than that. To be a successful politician, you have to have the cocky optimism and self-confidence that leads you to think that you can have affairs and get away with it. And probably the flattery-drawn ego that drives you to want that validation. But I was skeptical because the details being touted—the “love child”, the hidden names, the wife with cancer, etc.—were too tawdry for real life, like a soap opera plot. Turns out that I was wrong, though Edwards denies that the baby is his.
My official stance is that unless it’s a matter of hypocrisy, it’s none of your damn business. So, if someone has a history of dogging gay people, prostitutes, people who have sex outside of marriage, etc., their business is now public property because they treat your business like it’s public property. Edwards, as far as I know, has never been a “sanctity of marriage” wanker, and so this is officially None Of Our Business, and anyone who dogged him on this story should be fired on the principle that they don’t know journalism from rooting around in the trash. Hypocrisy is a story; human weakness is not.
I got it, liberalism makes complete sense now! So anyone who hasn’t, uh how does it go…started an illegal and unjust war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction…is free to criticize Bush, Cheney, et al. Larry Craig, being a “wanker,” should be scrutinized and drummed out for tapping his foot, but Edwards gets a pass for his hijinks because he hasn’t been a wanker. Clinton, of course, lied and nobody died, the bumper stickers tell me. No hypocrisy.
It’s all about hypocrisy.
So Amanda. Hypocrisy hater. She who seems to embrace double standards in appearance, but never ever in reality. Something really bad should happen to green-planet crusader Al Gore with that house of his, right?
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Nice to know she doesn’t hold a grudge.
Kinda lazy and unsportsmanlike when one satirizes the low hanging fruit that consistently satirizes itself. It MUST be
1. Missing the irony.
2. Out of context.
3. Unsolicited
4. Trolling
OK, Obviously I have trouble with inspiration on Monday morning too.
- CaptDMO | 08/11/2008 @ 10:37http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/john_edwards_in_1999
Here is Edwards on Clinton on Feb. 12, 1999:
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”
OK, Amanda, care to amend that answer? Does this quote qualify him for Wanker level status in the Sanctity Of Marriage game?
- Duffy | 08/11/2008 @ 11:46