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...
George F. Will thinks Sarah Palin is being celebrated for the quality named in the headline of this post.
In this work, he is a sad story. His whole point is that seven persons in ten consider Palin unfit for the presidency…therefore, he does as well. It’s not quite so much that he’s figuring out which way the wind is blowing and then responding to it. It’s that he’s figuring out which way the wind is blowing, and based on that figuring out whether this is the time to say out loud what he’s thinking. Which is just as bad. Not deriving an opinion from popular will, but being a fair-weather friend to popular will. Most people agree with me — on this one point — so on this one point, that proves I’m right. Naturally, if there’s some other point on which the popular will happens to be less receptive to George Will’s way of looking at things, we’ll never know about it.
So he sacrifices his intellectual scruples in order to put his finger on the pulse of The American People. That is the one prize…and it eludes him. He thinks Palin’s popularity is some rebellion against intellectual cred. Perhaps he is taking the situation too personally.
Could Thomas Sowell be talking about George Will, I wonder?
I can only speak for myself. This Palin supporter doesn’t give a good goddamn if her I.Q. is 200…or 50. I’m tired of the nonsense, tired of the bullshit, kill some terrorists and drill for some oil. At this point, those are the common sense things to do, and if you’ve got some talking points that make them seem otherwise I say you’re doing enough talking that you’ve stopped thinking so I don’t care how well you think you’re doing it.
I want to see some domestically produced oil barrels, some whittled-down tax rates across the board, crap-n-trade nuked for good so it ain’t never coming back, and some terrorist corpses with looks of real fear frozen on their dead crispy faces. Period. And frankly, all this talk of who’s “qualified” or smart or stupid or enlightened or educated or folksy or charmy or a lightworker, is beginning to bore me. And by bored what I mean is I’m getting pretty goddamn irritated over it for a couple of years now. I daresay I’m speaking for more people in that statement, than George Will is with his.
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AMEN!!
A good president doesn’t have to “smart” enough to know everything, just be smart enough to listen to good advice. One thing I respect about Palin is that she’s got some bedrock principles – some things she’s committed to and does not waver on. She doesn’t care if they’re popular or not. Her book makes it abundantly clear that her style is to govern in the way she believes is right, and then let the chips fall where they may.
After generations of being governed executively, legislatively, and even judically in the manner of political expediency, having someone come along who operates differently? Well, the word “refreshing” just doesn’t seem strong enough.
I’m pretty sick of all the disgusting criticism constantly being heaped on this woman. That NYT article you linked to a couple days back was a case-in-point. Was I supposed to applaud the comments which began with, “I’m not a Palin supporter, but I agree that the disabled kids should be off-limits.” Wow, bravo there, pal. Next you’ll be telling me it’s not OK to randomly shoot at people passing by on the street.
Morons. And I’ve never been particularly impressed by George Will’s analysis, either. At best, he is dry and boring, at worst, dead wrong.
- cylarz | 02/21/2010 @ 00:28