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...
Kirsten Powers, via Instapundit, by way of American Digest:
The touchstone of liberalism is tolerance of differing ideas. Yet this mob exists to enforce conformity of thought and to delegitimize any dissent from its sanctioned worldview. Intolerance is its calling card.
Each week seems to bring another incident…
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Don’t bother trying to make sense of what beliefs are permitted and which ones will get you strung up in the town square. Our ideological overlords have created a minefield of inconsistency. While criticizing Islam is intolerant, insulting Christianity is sport. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is persona non grata at Brandeis University for attacking the prophet Mohammed. But Richard Dawkins describes the Old Testament God as “a misogynistic … sadomasochistic … malevolent bully” and the mob yawns. Bill Maher calls the same God a “psychotic mass murderer” and there are no boycott demands of the high-profile liberals who traffic his HBO show.
Hm. Well. I think I can pick out one pattern that holds up in the above, if I really try. But overall, yes, there is still a consistency problem.
A college educator with the right opinions can attack a high school student and keep her job. A corporate executive with the wrong opinions loses his for making a campaign donation. Something is very wrong here.
As the mob gleefully destroys people’s lives, its members haven’t stopped to ask themselves a basic question: What happens when they come for me? If history is any guide, that’s how these things usually end.
Well, as I pointed out years ago, that’s what guides them. We hear from all sorts of directions — from them as well — something about this “social contract.” Theirs is, once all the pretenses are dropped, a social contract of musical chairs. A new pariah is chosen every time the music stops. The goal is to not be that guy.
Well, I suppose it may be just a little more complicated than that. For example…uh…er…well no, now that I think on it a bit further it isn’t any more complicated than that. That captures it completely and rather nicely, explaining everything they say and do.
Glenn Reynolds adds: “It’s only gotten worse in the intervening months. The ‘social justice warriors’ are only happy when they’re destroying someone. That’s because they’re awful people with mental and emotional issues.”
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“It’s only gotten worse in the intervening months. The ‘social justice warriors’ are only happy when they’re destroying someone. That’s because they’re awful people with mental and emotional issues.”
While that’s certainly true, I see this as at least a qualified sign of hope. There’s an inverse relationship between “number of people employed by the Inquisition” and “the strength of the ruling orthodoxy.” Torquemada couldn’t destroy the printing press, so he burned heretics. Sooner than later, the SJWs will go after someone with real power, and if history is any guide, they’ll end up on the rack themselves.
[My guess? The NFL. The SJWs keep pushing, not realizing that the NFL is a multi-billion dollar industry beloved by millions. If they ever switch over to the offensive….]
- Severian | 09/22/2014 @ 07:05I thought i would someday feel love for Kirsten when I first saw her on CNN 10+years ago. She seemed…..not at ease with the rhetoric she (as expected of apparatchiks of the liberals) emitted as a ‘democratic strategist’.
- casualzealot7 | 10/14/2014 @ 18:51