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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.
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...
PIDD (n.)
Persistent Interior Denial Disorder: A cognitive deficiency present in what has become a significant number of self-loathing, white, hetero liberal men. The most prominent symptom is a compulsion to wear outdoor clothing indoors, as if in a state of denial of the obvious fact that a comfortable interior is now being occupied.
It invariably turns out to be metaphorical for a veritable bouquet of other cognitive failures as well.
The most prominent victims of this disorder include such left-wing guilty-white-male luminaries as indoor-baseball-hat-wearer Michael Moore…
[Y]ou have to ask yourself, Larry, what’s it like to be black in America? And what kind of rage would you feel? And if you did feel that rage, what kind of things would you say that, at times, would be outrageous, crazy even, because you’ve had to live through this for so long. And I do not believe, as a white guy, that I am in any position to judge a black man who has had to live through that.
…obsessive/compulsive sunglasses-wearer Richard Belzer…
By the way, Richard always wears sunglasses— not to be cool, but because his eyes are very sesnsitive to the light. He doesn’t need sunglasses to be cool! See if your parents have a copy of Billy Joel’s album Turnstiles. There’s Richard on the cover, in the upper right, wearing his shades.
…and, fellow compulsive wraparound-shades-man Bono.
Bono is almost never seen in public without wearing sunglasses. During a Rolling Stone interview he stated:
[I have] very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I’ve a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it’s part vanity, it’s part privacy and part sensitivity.
Experts say the rising trend of liberal white heterosexual men wearing outdoor clothing indoors, is recognized as one of the chief causes of global warming. After all, it did become popular at the same time that scientific instruments recorded a distinct increase in the global temperature…and as is the case with carbon dioxide, correlation IS causation. Except when it’s not.
Anyway, experts say there isn’t an awful lot you can do about a case of PIDD. It’s brought on in childhood. There are two things that lead to it:
1. A mindset that symbolism equals substance. This seems to give way to an impression that the sufferer can change his basic character attributes by choosing what kind of clothing he wears…and therefore becoming inseparably fused to one item of outdoor clothing or another. For example, Michael Moore apparently feels he’ll be betraying his loyal-supporter working class men and women, if he takes off his baseball cap, even as a sign of respect while appearing on a nationally-televised program.
2. The notion that the suffering person can unilaterally determine what is “okay” and what is not. Michael Moore feels certain designated victim groups, such as black people who live in America, suffer from backgrounds conducive to legitimate rage. He says he’s in no position to judge, but this is the opposite of the truth. In the history of non-judgmental people, he may very well be the most judgmental. He is in a position to judge, for example, that if you’re a member of a non-legitimate victim group, you have no rage and can’t have rage. Women are more legitimate victims than men. However, they are less legitimate than blacks. So there’s a hierarchy of sorts here. But the one-dimensional spectrum isn’t the point, the point is that Michael Moore decides this unilaterally, just as he decides unilaterally that it’s okay to wear a hat indoors. This is exactly the problem suffered by Belzer and Bono when they wear their sunglasses.
It is vitally important that we take steps to fight PIDD and fight it now, since the cognitive shortcomings that interfere with the perception that a person is indoors are linked to the cognitive failures that cause victims to apparently ignore the consequences of failed public policies. The evidence to support this connection is, quite simply, overwhelming, and the science is settled on it.
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…as indoor-baseball-hat-wearer …
Oh Shit, Oh Dear. I wear my ball cap (most) all the freakin’ time… indoors and out. But mine isn’t some wimpy Michigan State thingie… it’s a genuine Newnited States Air Force ball cap from al Dhafra AB or alternately, one of my old unit ball caps, or one of several USN caps gifted to me by SN2.
There IS a difference, one hopes.
- Buck | 05/03/2008 @ 13:18Well being a gentleman of class and style, I would imagine in someone else’s pad you’d take it off.
- mkfreeberg | 05/03/2008 @ 13:30