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...
This was a Hello-Kitty-of-Blogging post that attracted an inordinate number of “likes,” so I guess it must have hit a nerve…
Confession time: I JUST DO NOT TRUST PEOPLE WHO DO NOT TRUST SARAH PALIN. Okay, if you catch her in an ACTUAL lie or can make an argument that she’s unfit for some office she’s held or sought…I’ll listen. But seriously, folks. She is the absolute embodiment of what nearly everyone, everywhere, says they want to be, or at least to support. She was just another citizen living in a state that was being molested and milked by corrupt cronies and special interests…said dammit, I don’t have to sit here and take this, became a PTA Mom, City Council person, then Mayor, then Governor. She GOT UP OFF HER SWEET SEXY PHOTOGENIC ASS AND GOT THE FUCK INVOLVED. And she takes the extra time and energy to educate her children on her values, and stands up for what’s right.
I have yet to meet someone who says “I disagree with Sarah Palin, but I respect her right to her opinion.” It’s never simple disagreement, it’s always white-hot incendiary hatred and frankly that just creeps me the fuck out.
She’s an ordinary citizen who saw something was wrong, and got involved. That’s something ALL of us aspire to be, or at the very least, if we saw it in our kids we’d be proud. So why the butt-hurt childish hatred? I don’t get it, and frankly I don’t trust it. I don’t think I should. I don’t think anyone should.
In a way, it’s a shame that she’s naturally gifted in just being a good-looking sexy grandmother. It distracts, because there are a lot of people like me, red-blooded straight men, who support her…and it isn’t because she has fantastic looking legs. That has nothing to do with support at all. It turns my head, sure…my head is turned toward pictures of Alyssa Milano and Jennifer Aniston…they have good looking legs too. But they’re dipshits. I don’t want them making decisions about anything, or running anything…I really, really don’t. Palin, on the other hand, is a PTA Mom. Yes, I would replace Congress with 535 clones of her, in a heartbeat, yes I would. I wouldn’t even think twice about it.
And yeah, here’s another picture of the sexy grandma in shorts, just because.
But the most attractive part of her, to me, is her brain. Not because I think she’s an Einstein. It’s just the common “horse sense” of it. The idea that maybe, just maybe, if your government is constantly running out of money, day by day and month by month and year by year…that could be because you’re spending too much, and it might not be the taxpayers’ fault for failing to pay enough.
She’s still around, you know. Whether you like it or not. Here she is being interviewed by Sean Hannity:
And the legs are pretty nice-looking too.
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I think she’s smarter than a lot of the folks who call her stupid, more honest than a lot of the folks who call her a liar, a lot more sane than a lot of the folks who say she’s crazy, and I assure you I trust her political instincts more, on average, than I do those of a lot of people who are allegedly professional politicians. And in all cases, a lot of those folks are nominally on our side. Which has ticked me off royally for a long, long time. I mean, I get why the left went zero-to-bat-guano the minute McCain brought her on the ticket. Not the extent, but I understand the general impulse. I don’t get the contempt some of “our” guys have for her. I really don’t. I never have, and I get it less as we go along. I mean, the party organization is a hot mess, the guys in Congress are in the process of alienating a good chunk of the base, a lot of the consultants know and care more about staying on the gravy train than winning. She’s been trying to help the GOP (sometimes at the risk of ticking off her supporters), trying to help the conservative movement, trying to keep the Tea Party from telling the GOP “screw you gahs, Ah’m goin’ home”, under circumstances, especially on and immediately after the campaign, that I don’t think I would have put up with nearly as long or with as good nature as she did. She’s been, as you say, pretty much what the party and the conservative movement say they’re looking for. And in return, she’s largely been taken for granted by the party and conservative establishment, when they’re not insulting her. She’s the problem. She’s the nut. And you’re a nut and a cultist if you support her. It’s not them. It’s her and you. Seriously, I want to grab some of these guys, shake them, and ask them “Who in hell do you people think you are?”
Oh, that cult thing scorches me the most of all. After five years, I’m still a lovestruck fanboy? I can’t have watched her in action, listened to and read her opinions, and decided maybe she’s as good as or better on the merits? Really?
- Rich Fader | 07/09/2013 @ 23:27Rich,
no offense, buddy, but you let liberals calling you a cultist bother you? The people who read and write articles like “How Progressives Should Talk About Solyndra”? You know, to make sure they get their spiel straight, so that everyone is telling the exact same lies in the exact same language?
Takes one to know one, I say.
Back a few years ago I spent a lot of time thinking about the phenomenon of Palin Derangement Syndrome. I tried to give everyone involved the benefit of every conceivable doubt. I tried to avoid cheap armchair psychology and petty insults. I really did. But all I could come up with, after all that effort, was:
90% of people who say they hate Sarah Palin are either a) chicks who have the right facts but the wrong conclusions,* or b) loser dudes who think said chicks will be easier lays if they too claim to hate Sarah Palin.
10% of people who say they hate Sarah Palin really do hate Sarah Palin — and I mean hate, in a “the FBI should probably be giving these folks a look” kind of way. But that’s because they’re crazy. They’re a public health concern, yes, but they say nothing useful about the zeitgeist, because crazy is un-ideological. Change their circumstances a bit and they’d be hating the Trilateral Commission, or the Anabaptists, or the Etruscans.
- Severian | 07/10/2013 @ 06:58.
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*”the right facts” in this case being, of course, that attractive people really do get lots of breaks the unattractive don’t, including that little extra burst of attention they get when they first open their mouths. “The wrong conclusions” are that attractiveness keeps people listening, and that ideas have nothing to do with it. The truth is what Morgan says: I’d happily look at Jennifer Anniston all day long, but only if she keeps her mouth shut.
I realize I was rolling, but let me make it clear. The left, for my purposes, isn’t really a factor in what I’m complaining about. I really expect no better from them. It’s who they are. It’s what they do. They’re dicks. I do expect better from people who are supposedly on our side.
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