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...
Blogger friend Rick links an intriguing piece at The American Thinker. It doesn’t take anything special to talk about pure evil, or about our President, but it takes extraordinary balls to connect the two of them together. Oooh…
Blogger friend Buck brought to our attention a year ago this thoughtful piece from Neptunus Lex about Ms. Palin — which is surprising, if you’ve been following Buck’s none-too-complimentary attitudes toward Her Tundra-ness.
Just got done conducting a failed search in my own archives, in which I made the point about liberal superstars throughout the ages…and trust. To bottom-line it: If you’re a conservative, you’d much rather have Sarah Palin watching your kids on the weekend than Barack Obama. And if you’re a liberal…you, too, would much rather have Sarah Palin watching your kids on the weekend than Barack Obama. Or John Kerry. Or John Kennedy. Or Ted Kennedy. Or either one of the Clintons. Or Joe Biden. Or…or…or. We don’t really disagree on which of these people are more reliable, truthful and trustworthy; we disagree on which qualities are more relevant to this thing we call “leadership.” It takes a certain testicular fortitude to search for the same attributes in your leaders as what you are trying to cultivate in your children. Some of us have it and some of us don’t.
The “There’s Just Something About Him!!” savior of the left-wing, across the generations, possesses this definite and constant set of personal aptitudes and strengths. They are not the things any of us are trying to cultivate in our children. We would not be happy seeing these things take root there. These have something to do with the power to present situations as the opposite of what they really are, and to get away with it. To sell ice cubes to the idiomatic eskimos. Character and integrity don’t seem to have an awful lot to do with it, in fact, they see to have an antagonistic relationship from what is truly being sought. In the leaders.
I guess it all comes down to this supposition we have formed that it’s a bipartisan desire to look for a “transparent” government. This seems, to me, a mistake. We don’t all want that. About half of us have defined competent leadership has the readiness, willingness and ability to keep government opaque. To marshall abilities not a single one among us would want to see developing in our own children. To present a situation as the opposite of what it really is, and get away with it.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 10/02/2009 @ 07:52My “none-too-complimentary attitudes toward Her Tundra-ness” are nothing but healthy skepticism, in that I think I need to see and hear more from her before I jump on the bandwagon. Palin’s Hong Kong speech was a step in the right direction, yanno?
That said, do recall that I voted GOP last year… Her Tundra-ness and all.
OT, but: I never got a reply to my reply in our last off-line exchange considering timing of things SW.
- bpenni | 10/02/2009 @ 11:03Thanks for the post and especially the link to Lex’s thoughts on Sarah Palin. I had missed that one. For something from Lex just as good, you have to look up his post on being told that they were about to have a “defective”, (dare I use that word) child. It turns out well, but the agonizing was terrible. His description of it will tear your heart out. I bet Sarah and Todd went through the same except it didn’t turn out as well.
- Pixelkiller | 10/04/2009 @ 05:25The Tar Baby’s got me! I can’t log out!
- Pixelkiller | 10/04/2009 @ 05:28There are a significant number of parents who want to leave their children with Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson.
- xlibrl | 10/05/2009 @ 11:52