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...
Andrea Tantaros writes in a NY Daily News editorial:
Originally, the Tea Party was discounted as “manufactured anger” and mocked by Washington elites. Even some on the right refused to take it seriously.
After it was announced that [Christine] O’Donnell had won, Karl Rove discredited her on Fox News, saying: “It does conservatives little good to support candidates who…do not evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for.”
But Rove, George W. Bush and many incumbents, including President Obama, are the reason we even have the Tea Party movement. Bush ran up deficits. Obama quadrupled them. To many disgruntled conservatives, Rove was behind Bush in giving us open borders, tax cuts that expire, Medicare Part D and busted budgets.
The current alternative from the left is even more cuckoo to voters: higher taxes, a new health care regime, more rights for terrorists, disregard for immigration law and constant apologies to other countries. Now that’s nuts.
So, with mud on their faces, both sides of the aisle are trying to shred the personal credibility of the outsiders. They’ve blasted O’Donnell for not liking porn and blasted [Carl] Paladino for liking it too much. They call O’Donnell a liar in a year when the Democratic Senate candidate from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, lied about serving in Vietnam, and Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters face serious ethics charges.
It’s getting ugly and it’s gonna get even uglier. A parasitic industry is being dismantled.
Last three days or so, on Memeorandum, the top headline on the page has had something to do with Christine O’Donnell’s past statements or purported shortcomings. You’d think she was running the place. I’m not relying so much on Memeorandum anymore. They’re enablers of the status quo, and they seem to have a rule in place that Paul Krugman’s articles must grab the center-limelight the second they come out, no matter what he has to say.
And let’s not even get started on newspapers or cable teevee.
The electorate is trying to send a message. This time, they’ll not be placated or distracted by anyone’s wonderful personality or speechifying. They want smaller government and they’re entitled to it.
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Hope is a vital thing, but it may lead to illusion or enlightenment , illusion being the easier to give and receive.
You have described the Tea Party well. They are not easy prey to illusion.
- jamzw | 09/19/2010 @ 09:50I’m sticking with Patterico on the O’Donnell saga – I like him, he’s honest and doesn’t pull any punches.
- Daphne | 09/20/2010 @ 12:46