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...
What is the biggest threat to both our security and our liberty, in the modern age?
It’s liberals defining for us what is sensible and what is nuts. This estranges us from prospects for our continuing survival, as well as from our freedoms. They’ve turned it all around. What makes sense, we treat as something strange; what’s odiously surreal, we now treat as the very pinnacle of logic.
How do they do this?
They follow Item #2 on the list of ways to motivate large numbers of people to do dumb things without anyone associating the dumb thing with your name later on. Which is to identify the thing you want done, and socially stigmatize its opposite. Every single thought, every thought promoted and every thought opposed, is on one side of the other of a new social stigma. This is why it is so popular lately to think unrepentant murderers enjoy an inalienable right to life but also that innocent unborn babies do not.
And what is the very pinnacle of their achievement here?
The notion that Vice President Joe Biden is some kind of senior, wizened, composed, diplomatic, dignified, knowledgeable elder statesman.
That’s a modern event. In the years to come, perhaps it will have to surrender its “Best Lie Ever” trophy to some other popular canard that comes along. But for this year, it is at the tippy-top of the list. No liberal democrat, no matter how loyal, really believes it down to the marrow of his bones; and if any one among them really does, there is a soul that is genuinely lost. This would be a weak and feeble mind that has completely, irreversibly given up on the notion of perceiving things in the world around it by relying on its own abilities and faculties.
It has become one of my favorite litmus tests for figuring out whether or not a liberal who wants to argue about politics, retains the minimal level of competence required for such a thing. Is Joe Biden a venerable, competent elder statesman? Are you buyin’ into that?
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Didn’t Joe Biden die? I haven’t heard him stick his foot in his mouth in weeks.
- Jason | 08/25/2009 @ 21:46