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...
Fellow Right Wing News contributor Duane Lester brings us this gem of a response to RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s dud of a statement…and that law of physics about “equal and opposite reaction” is completely undone.
It’s a rather peculiar thing about the folks in charge right now. Individual interests go up against the common interests of “everybody,” and the common interests win every time. And then the common interests of everybody, go up against the specific interests of a demographic group. In that second match-up the common interests of everybody aren’t worth jack.
I guess it’s just the way we’re wired in our most primitive, savage programming. We want to see something that’s “good for everybody” but we don’t get really excited about it until, while it’s good for this “everybody” over here, it’s simultaneously bad for that “everybody” over there. What Pastor Broden is talking about is something that is good for a real everybody regardless of skin color, circumstance of birth, whether they’re incarcerated or not, whatever their faith or income level. And before you can see the value in that you have to have some maturity. It really doesn’t take much; just enough to rise above that savage, primitive programming. Seeing the eventual consequences of the other side’s policies will do just fine.
I’m looking forward to finding out how many people have progressed to that level of maturity. Six months to go.
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I’m looking forward to finding out how many people have progressed to that level of maturity. Six months to go.
My only fear on that count is that there may still be a lot of voters out there with the, “What’s the point? They’re all creeps and liars. The Republicans were no better when they were in power” mentality. That view may not be entirely justified these days, as I think the party has actually acquitted itself pretty well in the last year or two – holding fast on ObamaCare, for instance – but the message may not have gotten to everyone.
My hope is that that fear, to the extent it comes true, will be balanced-out by the other legions who like having Congress under control of one party, the Presidency the other. This view holds that “gridlock” is a good thing, as government rarely accomplishes anything actually positive, just refrains from screwing us for awhile. There may be some validity to this view.
And then of course, are the people who either thought like us all along, or who have been brought around to our point of view by November.
- cylarz | 05/04/2010 @ 00:27