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...
Well, well, well. Would you look at what’s fast-becoming an “Everybody Else Is Blogging It, I Might As Well Do It Too” thing. McCain is following the example set by his lipstick/pitbull running mate.
Cheers consuming the right side of the blogosphere and rightly so. Rick. Cassy. Red State. Rachel. Hot Air. Toldjah. Others.
Good on ya, John McCain. Let’s see some more of this.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If hold-outs like me had jumped onto this guy’s bandwagon the minute it was possible to do so, you’d be looking at a running-mate Lieberman right now.
And if you’d been looking at a running-mate Lieberman right now, the balls would still be stashed away in a dusty old lockbox somewhere.
So you’re welcome.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If hold-outs like me had jumped onto this guy’s bandwagon the minute it was possible to do so, you’d be looking at a running-mate Lieberman right now.
And if you’d been looking at a running-mate Lieberman right now, the balls would still be stashed away in a dusty old lockbox somewhere.
So you’re welcome.
I love ya to death, Morgan… BUT. Your picture is due to appear any day now next to the dictionary def for “hubris.” It’s not there YET (I just checked, to be sure)… but, as I said: any day now.
You and your “non-bandwagoneer” counterparts had absolutely NOTHING to do with McCain’s veep choice, or the way he’s run his campaign (which is to say: badly). But, Hey! The premise IS good blog-fodder. I’ll give ya that.
- Buck | 10/07/2008 @ 14:58It is indeed. And I’ll take that bet/debate.
I must say, friend, I can expect you taking issue with some of the above. I can even see the logic in your doing so. But to say the non-bandwagoneers had nothing to do with picking Palin? You believe that, seriously?
If Palin was something even vaguely resembling a carbon-copy of McCain…pre-Palin…the event in which McCain chose her, would have been a complete non-story. I’m unsure how you can substantiate this point. I’m thinking you’ve started off on a bearing that’s reasonable and then overshot the vector.
- mkfreeberg | 10/07/2008 @ 15:07My point is this: it’s all about claiming to know the unknowable. There are precious few people in this world who can have insight into McCain’s veep selection process, and only ONE person who really, truly knows (and maybe even understands) how he came to his decision. I’m reasonably sure neither you nor I fall into either category (and MOST certainly not the second), unless you know someone or something I don’t.
In the “credit where credit is due” category, I will say I read the odd piece or two from McCain campaign “insiders” (universally unattributed) that McCain briefly considered his friend Lieberman as a VP pick, but was supposedly dissuaded by those same “campaign insiders” and almost immediately, at that. I also read, at the same time, that Palin was always on the “short list” simply because she IS a sitting GOP governor. I’m quite sure McCain realized the advantages and disadvantages of selecting Palin over a “usual suspect” during the vetting process. But… there I go, speculating on what is essentially unknowable.
I’ll agree with you that it appears McCain threw the uncommitted, disgruntled, and somewhat radical-right, “base” a bone. But… you know what they say about “appearances,” right? 😉
- Buck | 10/08/2008 @ 15:03