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...
It’s actually two words…
Möbius Movement (n.)
A political movement that, through natural progression over time, comes to directly oppose its own most cherished tenets.
Examples:
1. Demanding diversity in the workforce, and eventually requiring discrimination.
2. (See the same link in the bullet above) Bullying people to acknowledge the contributions of women in running countries and companies, and ultimately mocking and dismissing the contributions of women in parenthood.
3. Opposing statism out of respect for human rights, and insisting on abortion being a human right.
4. Liberalism itself — specifically, when it asserts “everyone has to show tolerance to different points of view, and we’re going to obliterate anybody who dares to assert otherwise.”
5. As a political movement, pacifism is naturally inclined to fall into this trap. A mild reluctance to enter into war, easily morphs into an extremist resistance against any war, no matter how justifiable; and, invariably, that turns into the same belligerent “we must prevail, take no prisoners” attitude in domestic politics that is supposed to be intolerable in foreign policy. It’s happening now, it’s happened before any of us were born and it’ll happen again after we’re all dust.
There are other examples I can offer if I think on it longer, but I don’t feel like it because it gives me a headache after awhile, and eventually it ends up just being a study in chaos theory. Which means it’s an exercise in futility. It’s like listing the trillions of ways you can pick the wrong lottery numbers…except that’s a game of chance, whereas selecting a goal and working toward it, without contradicting yourself, is an endeavor of skill. We have a lot of people trying to do that — insisting others join and support whatever misguided campaign they’ve got going there — who are not very skilled at it.
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