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...
Some folks stopping by to read The Blog That Nobody Reads, might be toying with starting one of their own, and are now engaged in that frenzied gathering of bits of evidence of the benefits & liabilities of doing so.
If in doubt, I think you should proceed…but if you are feeling queasy about the liabilities and feeling less than confident about your comprehension of what they are, I suppose you could take note of things like this —
And as much of a tragedy as I think it might be when someone decides to bite down on a thought that (agree or disagree) is well-thought-out and worthy of being expressed, I would have to agree: If you’re not prepared for the experience of seeing your name up in lights like that, you probably shouldn’t get started.
Smitty’s gripes — make what sense out of them as you can — are linked behind the pic. And I must ‘fess up: I’ll be needing to hear from you about it, if you can spare a moment or two. I’m not sure I see what the beef is…
Sitting on a couch in your undies typing shit about stuff through the innerw Blogging. It ain’t for the timid.
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W, as they say, TF? I confess I can’t make much sense of Smitty’s criticism here – although I object strongly to calling an idiot a “dick.”
As I’ve pointed out on Ace’s blog, the genesis of this term as an insult was in the early ’80s, when the Angry Lesbians Concerned Unduly types found it adorably witty to conflate their politics with their man-hatred. Ace’s kids, of course, were quick to scorn any insight that was founded in a time before they were born, particularly my assertion that the use of this term makes a person sound like a victim of Progressive Education. Frankly, I find any use of a body part to express scorn childish, and there is no part of the human structure that is as distasteful as people like Pelosi, either Clinton or a host of others.
Besides, as I’ve noted, I like my dick. Some gender-neutral term connoting “jerk” is needed – perhaps a new Aristothenian word?
- rob | 09/13/2009 @ 11:43“Some gender-neutral term connoting “jerk” is needed….”
What is wrong with “Democrat”?
- Larry Sheldon | 09/13/2009 @ 15:03@Rob,
- smitty1e | 09/13/2009 @ 18:14OK, if the joke isn’t self-explanatory, the fault lies with the teller.
The point was that the screenwriter’s criticism works from “We the People” to the idiots in office, who’re calling us names, when they are the ones in the wrong.
I did want to lift Morgan’s post almost wholly to make that point, and chose what I thought was a mild form of ribbing “losing his touch?” to point out what I thought was an obvious application of his point.
To quote Steven Wright, “There is a fine line between fishing and standing there on the shore looking like an idiot.”
Ah, well, maybe less irrational exuberance in the future.
Morgan, it was intended with the purest affection.
And taken that way, my friend, I assure you. We’re in our fifth year in this “business” and we possess the rhinoceros hide that is required within it. We chose to make an example of it for the benefit of those who haven’t yet dipped the first toe in, and are standing around poolside, dressed up in the brand new swimwear but dry as a bone. Always try to make some kind of lemonade, and all that.
Still and all, it’s not often my name is spelled correctly beginning-to-end. That’s usually a work situation. I must confess I did have my “WTF?” moment seeing it happen in the context discussed, on a blog as notable and eminent as RSM.
- mkfreeberg | 09/13/2009 @ 18:56Ah… it’s just what you frickin’ get for expressing your latent (embryonic?) moderate tendencies. 😉
- bpenni | 09/13/2009 @ 21:16Krykee dooodle.
The inter tubes has come to this – getting something fer nuthin’ , then b1tching about it.
- locomotivebreath1901 | 09/14/2009 @ 15:50Next thing ya know, RSM will be a flaming liberal.
@locomotivebreath1901
- smitty1e | 09/14/2009 @ 16:09“RSM will be a flaming liberal.”
Such may come to pass, but that was a Smitty post, not RSM.