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...
Candidates, candidates, candidates. I’ve been hearing for the last year or more about the candidates that will emerge, are bound to emerge, oh Lordy please won’t they please emerge. We need more and better candidates.
And I have to keep listening to this for another year.
It’s about time someone spelled it out. We’re only getting three candidates. That includes the ones who are already in the running, and the ones who might or might not enter later. Each and every single one. It adds up to three. If you haven’t faced up to this yet, then you need to.
M is for Milquetoast. Otherwise known as “Who the hell are we kidding, we all know I’m gonna lose.” We Californians are accustomed to seeing this every time Feinstein or Boxer come up for re-election; the Republican challenger is always one of these, and there’s this depressing undertone of “alright let’s just get this over with.” But the advantage is, this guy can get his history wrong, his spelling wrong, his table etiquette wrong and nobody’s going to go after him about it. You won’t hear about it over and over again. There’s a reason for that: He isn’t a threat.
O is for Obama clone. We’re not going to have any of these in 2012 unless His Holiness is raptured, or finds something else He’d rather be doing. So this one is included here, because my formula-of-three works for all modern election years, not just 2012.
P is for Palin clone. Constantly heckled, constantly ridiculed, tons and tons of what’s called “baggage,” or instructions from our wizened lamestream press that we’re supposed to think so-and-so is a dimwit, and if w don’t repeat it then that means we’re the dimwits.
And then there’s…no…there is no and-then. There’s no wise, smart, sleek, sophisticated, popular Republican guy who can threaten the establishment and deflect the resulting criticism. Just those three and that’s it. Cute-and-harmless…same-ol’ same-ol’…and, threatening person the media hates.
Yeah, this is a rant. I’m sick to death of people saying “I’ll find a candidate to like as soon as one comes along, for now I just like to criticize.”
M, O, P. That’s all there is, there ain’t no more. You’re not getting a fourth one.
That which will fail, that which will preserve, and that which might actually change things and therefore must be torn to shreds.
“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing” — Aristotle.
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Okay, just for fun…who were the respective MOP’s in the last presidential election?
Lemme think:
– M for either ronpaul! ronpaul! ronpaul! or Huckleberry Hound
– O for either Mittens or McShame
– And P for….Fred Thompson! (The one candidate I actually liked, and why couldn’t he have thrown his hat in the ring a little sooner….?)
How’d I do, Morgan?
- cylarz | 06/27/2011 @ 23:40I think of Mac and Mitt as M’s. One, we already know for a fact can’t beat Obama; the other one, it’s hard to see him coming out of it in one piece.
I think the democrats who make the decisions understand Palin is more of a threat than Mitt. Hell, you can tell this just by watching their actions. They couldn’t possibly care less what the next thing is that Milquetoast Mitt is gonna do. No value put on that information whatsoever.
Which I suppose makes them smarter than the “establishment” Republicans who want Palin to go away, to “make room” for this fourth candidate who will appear…intelligent, gutsy, charismatic, inspiring, knows all the Trivial Pursuit answers, will rally the country. The Frums and Wills and Krauthammers waiting for someone to emerge who won’t and can’t emerge, since no such fourth category is possible.
It isn’t that these intellectual/establishment Republicans are dumber. They’ve taken a defensive posture. When you take a defensive posture, you want everyone else to take a defensive posture too. Deep down, I think they understand, if they really want a conservative agenda enacted and preserved, they’re going to have to grow a pair, turn on the chattering-class liberals and tell them: “Your criticism is invalid, I’m not on board with it, and I’m not embarrassed to say so.” They failed to say this at the right time and now they’re trying to save face without changing direction. Which they can’t do, of course. They made a bargain with the Devil at the very moment when they were accusing others of doing that.
- mkfreeberg | 06/28/2011 @ 06:51Ass-covering is always preferable to admitting mistakes, or changing direction to rectify those mistakes, or making a hard or unpopular decision.
- chunt31854 | 06/29/2011 @ 04:50