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...
Because, if it is, there’s something a little odd about it. Yeah it’s thick on death, and thin on inclusiveness, but it seems so much more passive than active. Like if a serial killer with an axe felt this way about me, I wouldn’t really be in too much danger.
There’s something else here that hasn’t been included in all these descriptions of right-wing rage. In fact, the one thing left undiscussed appears to me to be a key ingredient.
Fatigue.
I resent having to breathe the same air as you. You and I are not brothers, friends, or countrymen – in fact, you’re not even the same species as me, you subhuman oxygen thieves. I wonder why there isn’t a bounty on you, but probably because to pay what you are worth wouldn’t cover the cost of the bullet it would take to put you out of respectable people’s misery, you immoral filth. If you were on fire, I would step around you rather than waste the time to piss on you and put it out, and I’d charge your relatives for the disposal of your body, as well as fine your estate because your screams of pain were noise pollution.
This is quite a bit different from what I was hearing out of left-wingers when Republicans were getting elected. That wasn’t passive, like this; that was active. It was about frog-marching the elected and appointed officials out of their offices in shackles, waterboarding them, trying them in The Hague. Setting them on fire, not walking around them once they were smoldering away. Yes, there is a difference.
I know to a lot of folks it sounds like exactly the same thing. That’s because they’re spoiled.
When you’re accustomed to having your ass kissed, it feels like a beat-down when you finally meet someone who’s sick of you. That doesn’t mean that’s what it is. It just means you’re spoiled rotten.
It’ll get worse before it gets better. I know this, because to a 42-year-old man, sixteen years isn’t that long of a time, and I remember what 1993 was like. Obama will call for things to be passed through Congress, our media will not inspect any of it, Congress won’t balk at it, none of it will be held up for discussion safe for how wonderful our iPresident-Messiah is for signing it…every day will be a brand new Easter as the Messiah rises from the dead once again with His wonderful new legislation…and even His most enthusiastic supporters will become exhausted.
Nobody wants to go to church seven days a week.
Meanwhile, is this the worst of it? I don’t see any conservatives ordering up painkillers or stretching themselves out on psychiatrists’ couches…like liberals did in ’05. All I see, is fatigue, much like this. Fatigue with seeing flaky, un-American visions for this country’s future, treated as if they are quite legitimate, when they’re not.
Yes, liberals have the idea that conservative visions for the country’s future are equally illegitimate. It’s the reaction. When it was the liberals’ turn to get extra-peeved, they went active. They went much, much further than what’s above.
H/T: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.
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Morgan,
Well drawn, and not a point often made. The vitriol of the left has been unequaled in my lifetime. And it is frightening, unlike that of the right.
If you enjoy these little colloquies with the lefties, however, check out the following (and of course the comments), which became a Treacher Feature on the 19th:
http://politicalirony.com/2008/11/15/dear-world/
- rob | 11/21/2008 @ 19:32