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...
Throughout all of my mortal life, conservatives have been on the defensive about two things: That they lack compassion, and that they think of and treat people “different” from themselves as inferiors. Time after time I see a prominent conservative granted the opportunity to do the right thing, and take a pass on doing it, only because doing the right thing would reverse some of his “progress” in trying to deny or refute one of those, or both. They are “When did you stop beating your wife” questions: Once you are accused, any action you take to address the accusation in any way whatsoever, only does more damage. Denying it does the greatest damage.
I’d like to see liberals become defensive about something: Their tendency is to make bad decisions, because they aren’t motivated to understand why someone might disagree with what they propose to do. To them, it’s always something that begins with “you’re”: You’re stingy, you’re cold-hearted, you’re mean, you lack compassion, you’re a racist, you’re a homophobe, you’re just a jerk, you cling to your gun and your Bible…
For the good of the country, I’d like to see liberals placed under suspicion for this, everywhere they go, just as conservatives are placed under suspicion of being racists and sexist pigs — and are never, ever finished proving that they aren’t these things. I’d like to see liberals caught on a spinning hamster-exercise-wheel of trying to disprove this thing about themselves, that they cannot intellectually grapple with an opposing argument, and the ad hom is their only refuge. Because in many cases, from what I’ve seen, it’s true.
Update: Gerard wants to push the definition all the way out:
“A raaaaacist is anyone who’s winning an argument with a liberal.”
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Liberals want to feel good about themselves. That is the opiate that drives them. It’s a shot in the arm of “I did good”, and “I am a good person, see?”
What they’ve done is taken the snake-oil of Progressive theories and adopted them because they express good intentions and recipes for success. (Only any time someone’s tried to make one of those cakes, it always falls and tastes like spoiled flour paste, but no matter. “I made it for YOU, mama!”)
The other half of what they do is to assign everything they don’t want people to think they are to people who haven’t bought the Progressive Snake Oil. They assign motives to our beliefs and actions so that they can reject them by rejecting us, thus getting another dose, another hit of superiopium.
They’re really not interested in us except as a convenient screen on to which they project everything they don’t like about themselves so that they can look at something outside of themselves and condemn it.
- philmon | 09/15/2009 @ 17:21Oh, and by the way, I believe they are about to find out what it’s like to be put on the defensive.
- philmon | 09/15/2009 @ 17:22Re: Update: Klavan explained raaaaacism as Shut Up a few weeks back.
- smitty1e | 09/15/2009 @ 19:44“Shut Up” will remain a huge Klavan Classic through the ages. Talk about nailing it. I reference it all the time.
- philmon | 09/15/2009 @ 20:51