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...
Had a thought for the Hello Kitty of Blogging, but figured it wasn’t quite as appropriate there, it’s more fitting as a blog post.
Conservatism does have a problem but “how to connect” is not it. The problem it faces is one liberalism hasn’t even had to face.
Conservatism is a reluctant involvement in politics by people who have been cornered and forced to make the time for it, who’d rather be spending that time building things that pull in the money. The people who make up conservatism, therefore, are accustomed to conversations where: If the other person gets up and leaves, you have failed. THAT is the problem. Politics, as we have seen over the last few weeks, to several years, works the other way. If the other person gets up and leaves, that makes you the last-man-standing, and now you can have everything the way you want it because the other person can’t even vote “present.”
Therefore, American politics looks like this:
Liberals say “We demand the country think of creative forces as destructive ones, and vice-versa.” The task for conservatives is to show up — to say, “No, things are what they are, they are not their opposites, so we’re not buying into this nonsense.” But then, get back to creating things. When the other side doesn’t have to do any such thing. And the conflict is resolved by way of last-man-standing.
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Nothing can save us from bollocksspeak but refusal to accept bollocksspeak. In part that means that people who’d rather create things have got to take breaks now and then and do boring government work, as George Washington did when he’d have preferred to be back on his farm.
Oh, and we should quit sending our kids to schools dominated by bollocksspeak.
- Texan99 | 02/03/2013 @ 18:05