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...
Ask John Wayne why he loved America? He had a million reasons why.
Me? Not sure I have a million reasons, but I have one that I like more than most of the others: It’s a nation started on a tax revolt.
America is a debate that needed to happen. Yeah sure, if we pool our resources together in a big pot, we can accomplish some amazing things…but maybe, just maybe, we can accomplish more amazing things with the loot that stays with us. Is that really so selfish? Some may say so; but the word for which they’re grasping, whether they realize it or not, is not “greedy” or “selfish” but responsible. Can you impose your will over a finite value of assets, and leverage them to produce something glorious. To even entertain the question is to embrace a responsibility; not just any responsibility, but one that many of our fellow world citizens will never know.
Turns out, when you put your individual creativity and resourcefulness in competition with a bureaucracy in a contest along those lines, it’s not so hard to come out on top. Bureaucracy has an effect on such efforts, and the effect it has is not beneficial.
Celebrating our nation’s birthday, in the final analysis, is really all about celebrating individuality. Not diversity or tolerance or immigrants or, for that matter, Arizona rains or sunsets or white people. It’s a celebration of human capability reaching its pinnacle, when & where people are closest to the work that has to be done. In other countries, it’s the bureaucrats who are thought to be the smartest. In still others, it’s the hereditary sovereigns. In others, its is the clergy. And that’s fine. They can keep that.
Here, we celebrate human potential. Human strength, human wisdom, human L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E.: Leadership, Initiative, Creativity, Ownership of one’s own problems, Resourcefulness, Ingenuity, Courage & conviction and Energy. We celebrate the fact that when an individual sees a problem, and resources that can be used to address it, he doesn’t need to wait for a committee to be gaveled to order. We celebrate resolve, determination, decision-making, and good, old-fashioned grit.
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