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...
I have noticed this is going on a lot lately, both within & outside of politics. “I shall win this argument, I shall insist on that outcome and no other, and in order to achieve that I am telling you: I don’t care.”
My disposition is not soothed when I realize that the reason I’m seeing it over and over again, is the same reason I see any argument-winning or election-winning tactic I see over and over again: This shit works. People really are winning arguments by declaring that they “don’t care.” So this would have to be criticism against the rest of us as well, we must be letting it happen. Hannity is showing the first logical response. Incredulity. The second one would be a sense of dismissal: Alright, come back after you’ve read the evidence, and until you have, leave the room the adults are going to figure out what to do about this. Ironically, that’s exactly what the “not-care” people bring, I notice: Begone with you evidence-reading proles, leave the chambers, we High Priests of Apathy are going to make the decisions in your absence. We’re above all that “fact” stuff, or something.
I can see Ms. Norton’s point, there is an issue here that merits greater discussion than it’s been receiving and this is an opportunity to have that discussion. Point is, on that last part, she’s just wrong. If the justice system says the cop is innocent in this case, and the evidence says the cop is innocent in this case, and the eyewitness accounts — once you get rid of the “witnesses” who weren’t there to witness anything — provide testimony that strongly suggests the cop’s innocence…the link is deteriorated, if not severed altogether. What we then have here, at the very best, is an issue that requires more attention, an incident that’s captured widespread attention that some wish could have been directed toward that issue, and nothing to connect the two. At all.
That’s at best. I’m not sure the issue of distrust between cops and the “black community” is something that needs more attention. It’s impossible to deny there is a problem, but again, evidence. It suggests rather strongly that the increased attention has a lot to do with the problem. Across the decades, the situation doesn’t seem to be improving, and during that time we have the spectacle of race-baiting demagogues like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Eleanor Holmes Norton making careers and personal fortunes out of “fixing” it. So…no results to show, and she herself says she doesn’t know or care about what’s going on. How long would you keep a handyman around your house who was spending decades fixing something, getting rich off it, with the problem not getting fixed, then he says he doesn’t care what the problem is?
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See also “UVa Rape Story.”
“Facts” are what advance The Narrative. If the facts contradict The Narrative, then by definition they aren’t facts, and nobody wants to hear them.
See also “Global Warming.”
The fact that liberals still routinely lose arguments — and look like utter buffoons in the process — tells you everything you need to know about the quality of the grey matter on that side of the aisle. Call this arrogant if you must, but I’m pretty sure I’d be batting 1.000 if we were only permitted to use my facts, my logic, and my rules of evidence.
- Severian | 12/08/2014 @ 14:48So who is Catherine Comins of Vassar College?
- CaptDMO | 12/10/2014 @ 11:26How is it that she kept her job?
Oh, right, “…out of context…”
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