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...
Cheesecake Nazi (n.)
No, it has nothing to do with No Cheesecake For You! It refers to someone who siezes control of an entire conversation, so that no politics may be discussed and for that matter nothing of any intellectual depth may be discussed either. Stop it! Time for dessert! There’s cheesecake!
The Cheesecake Nazi turns the conversation toward intellectual sherbet, because this is what everybody wants…whether they want it or not.
The Cheesecake Nazi is a dictator who dictates from a position of apathy. The Cheesecake Nazi doesn’t care about politics. He/she detests any talk whatsoever about authoritarians/libertarians, Republicans/democrats, liberals/conservatives. Therefore, the Cheesecake Nazi requests a cessation of any such talk since there’s been plenty enough of it already. Except, oddly, the cessation is requested when the talk has barely just begun, often at the Cheesecake Nazi’s prodding in the first place. And it isn’t a request. It’s a command. Cheesecake Nazi presumes to speak on behalf of everyone in the room. Everyone is sick to death of the contention…everyone who counts, that is.
The Cheesecake Nazi, for someone who doesn’t give a fig about liberals or conservatives, shows an oddly consistent predilection toward bringing the conversation to a sudden halt at the moment when it most benefits the liberal and causes the greatest injury to the conservative.
Liberal accuses conservative of being a racist; conservative defends himself — Stop it! Everyone’s sick of this! Let’s move on, there’s yummy cheesecake.
Based on my comments over here.
Cross-posted at Cassy’s place.
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But cheesecake’s best served with cherries.
And cherries come in thick red juice. Like blood. Mwhahahahahaha….. blood!
Ok, maybe nobody got that but me. Time to stop being silly. 🙂
[see, I’m raining on the Cheesecake Nazi’s parade …. ’cause he wants rich cheesey sweetness, and I’m ruining it with images of … oh, never mind]
- philmon | 07/16/2010 @ 19:37Reminds me a bit of a family Christmas dinner back in 1998. My left-wing cousin started in with “Well, if we’re going to impeach Clinton, then we need to retroactively impeach Bush (41) and Reagan.” On what charges, he didn’t specify, nor did he explain how it’s supposedly possible to ‘retroactively impeach’ a president who has already left office. Impeachment and removal doesn’t mean the disgraced president goes to jail, after all.
I started to say, “No, no…Clinton lied to a federal grand jury under oath, intimidated witnesses, destroyed evidence, subborned perju-” I was cut off in mid-sentence by my father demanding that I go outside with him to “help him get more firewood.” Angy at being interrupted, I followed him outside and demanded to know what he wanted…only to be given a dressing-down about upsetting my mother by discussing politics at the dinner table. I even wound up apologizing to the family left-winger. Naturally, nobody chewed him out for bringing it up in the first place.
Does that make my mom or dad a “cheesecake Nazi?” You be the judge.
- cylarz | 07/16/2010 @ 21:03Lefties are the little brother. They get away with everything.
- mkfreeberg | 07/16/2010 @ 21:08[…] understand the issues, nor does she pretend to. The worst she’s going to do, is become a Cheesecake Nazi…imploring you that, if you’ve been accused of being a hateful bigot and unworthy of […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 08/22/2010 @ 09:39[…] think they are pushed into this corner by…or perhaps, they were once themselves…Cheesecake Nazis, the people who leap to take over any social event where people get into discussions about […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 10/13/2011 @ 07:43[…] lifetime? This one’s going to be a cul de sac. They’ll change the subject, or some Cheesecake Nazi will change the subject for them, or they’ll accuse you of being a bad person and pull a switcheroo, start waxing lyrically […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 11/29/2011 @ 07:41[…] a few sound bites they picked up from West Wing, or some homina-homina-homina until a Cheesecake Nazi bursts out of the kitchen, like a clown out of a car, to announce […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 12/17/2011 @ 10:49[…] a few sound bites they picked up from West Wing, or some homina-homina-homina until a Cheesecake Nazi bursts out of the kitchen, like a clown out of a car, to announce […]
- Memo For File CL | Right Wing News | 12/17/2011 @ 11:16[…] a few sound bites they picked up from West Wing, or some homina-homina-homina until a Cheesecake Nazi bursts out of the kitchen, like a clown out of a car, to announce […]
- Memo For File CL | Washington Rebel | 12/17/2011 @ 11:34[…] cheesecake is the answer after […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 10/08/2012 @ 03:47[…] cheesecake is the answer after […]
- Hiding Under a Bush | Right Wing News | 10/08/2012 @ 04:27[…] made any kind of meaningful mistake, specifically, and it’s time for a topic-change. Or cheesecake, or […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 10/20/2012 @ 09:20[…] play the “Can I buy a Howitzer?” game, at this point I’m more inclined to turn Cheesecake Nazi myself. Conversation’s running out of steam. Probably never had […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 12/20/2012 @ 04:26[…] all the time? The sweet, cheerful Aunt who’s been voting for democrats since Roosevelt, and finds a way to change the subject whenever you point out that logic and history agree the minimum wage exacerbates unemployment for […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 05/21/2013 @ 08:31[…] all the time? The sweet, cheerful Aunt who’s been voting for democrats since Roosevelt, and finds a way to change the subject whenever you point out that logic and history agree the minimum wage exacerbates unemployment for […]
- Mean Liberals | Rotten Chestnuts | 05/25/2013 @ 07:10[…] all the time? The sweet, cheerful Aunt who’s been voting for democrats since Roosevelt, and finds a way to change the subject whenever you point out that logic and history agree the minimum wage exacerbates unemployment for […]
- InsureAdvice.com - Mean Liberals | 06/09/2013 @ 05:28[…] sour for those folks too. What this all means is, this year there aren’t going to be too many Cheesecake Nazis forcing a change of subject on “Hank” and “Emily.” Maybe that’s not […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 11/26/2013 @ 06:05[…] way or the other…certainly it’s a lot less likely with the time limit imposed by the Cheesecake Nazis, or someone reaching up to drown out what they see as a lot of petty bickering with some classical […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 11/24/2015 @ 06:12[…] way or the other…certainly it’s a lot less likely with the time limit imposed by the Cheesecake Nazis, or someone reaching up to drown out what they see as a lot of petty bickering with some classical […]
- “Deserves to be Believed” | H2o Positivo | 11/24/2015 @ 21:24[…] taught how to argue. So many among us grew up in “Stop talking about politics, there’s cheesecake!” households. And simply do not know how to entertain an idea without necessarily accepting […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 12/05/2018 @ 09:26[…] back against left-wing politics, working where I do” or “Stop it already, there’s cheesecake!!” The politicians and pundits who are selling socialism to our young people, who fancy […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 05/19/2019 @ 12:02[…] discuss any of this. They may not know how. Too many decades of “Stop arguing, there’s cheesecake” or “No politics allowed in this bar” have created generations of people who […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 11/14/2019 @ 04:05[…] Trump, for & against, and if you can pay close attention in those very few minutes before a Cheesecake Nazi lays down the edict of “Stop talking politics, there’s cheesecake” — you […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 05/22/2020 @ 11:12