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...
Oh, my. There’s a durable argument for you.
Hat tip to Chicks on the Right.
Update: You realize, if you can show there is a consensus among our modern lefty movement that this incongruity is right and proper, and should be maintained — which I expect would not be difficult — what that would prove, is exactly what I was saying here:
This sub-surface alternative economic system is for people who do not like money. Here’s the deal: You want something and decide your want is actually a need. So, since you need it, your employer buys it for you, because he’s compelled to do so by force of law. Forget about how much it has to do with the contract between you & him, that doesn’t matter because you need it.
And because you need it, you get to dictate the parameters of this thing you need so, so badly — but somehow, can’t quite get around to opening your billfold to pay for it.
The fact that this sub-surface alternative economic system for people who do not like money, works for “health care” but not for guns, proves that this has nothing to do with basic human rights at all. Our throat-clearing wussie guy here “puts it into a different category,” but there are sure to be some people who do not look at it that way. Where, then, is the protest to force employers to provide ammunition?
Captain Obvious points out: It is a culture conflict. The abortifacient protesters are aligned with the advocates for this sub-surface economic system — “It’s an economic system built on wrath instead of on greed,” as I said. Gun nuts like me are none too fond of this slimy slithering other-economic-system, this “Fluke-onomy” system, in which such extraordinary lengths are undertaken merely to avoid opening a purse or billfold. And the feeling is mutual. They love their abortions. And hate guns. As much as they hate money; that is, having money. The wrong people having money.
What is the connection?
Current operating theory: It’s all about faith in one’s fellow man. Trust. Should ordinary, run-of-the-mill people be trusted with guns; money; babies; the planet. One side of the conflict says no, no, no and no. People aren’t good enough. They’re icky. And they didn’t build that…
The other side says, not quite so much yes-yes-yes-and-yes, but rather: Why would anyone ask me? The decision has been made already, by a power higher than ourselves. We have the guns, we have the money, we can have the babies and we have the planet. It’s not our place to decide whether that should be so, what’s on us is to make the result of these gifts and trusts, as positive as we possibly can.
These two sides are absolutely irreconcilable. The beliefs, ultimately, are about life and death. It’s not too likely you’ll ever see an adherent to one side, re-think things and cross over to the other. Well…I could be wrong. I’d like to be. But I’ve not yet seen any evidence of that.
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