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...
Muerto
Nobody ever reads this blog, of course, but among those who do, it can be easily recalled that I’ve wished death on the Democratic party on a number of occasions. It is, I think, inevitable, but nevertheless I hold up hope on the remaining uncertainty regarding the timeframe. I hope it’s soon. I think the party is a cancer on America; the former lives on at the expense of the latter, and I think the continuing survival of the latter isn’t too terribly pleasing to the former.
For those who see something conceptually helpful in what they think the Democratic party is supposed to be, perhaps there’s a desire for the party to place that concept in a light of more elevated importance, although they may share my recognition that something is seriously broken in the party machinery. To the extent that those people are correct about what’s good — and I think there is one — I share their appreciation for those positive concepts. And I hope the party nevertheless sinks beneath the waves, releasing those beneficial attributes to surface again elsewhere. The rotting host that ostensibly supports those positive things, is just not worth the hassle. We need for it to pass on. And we need to bury the corpse quickly when it happens. Skip the funeral and maybe even the wake, for the body stinks already, even as it still draws breath.
Well, now. It seems likely that I’ll be getting my wish. Lieberman has lost. Not for good, for he has vowed to return as an independent, but as of tonight he is going to have to separate from the party that has been his, in order to make that happen.
So it is unofficially official. The Democratic party is the party of Kos.
All you Democrats who are running for re-election to the House or Senate, and stopped short of blaming President Bush for actually causing the September 11 attacks, you’ve got some explaining to do. Haven’t you heard, you’re part of the Screw Them party. Better get with the program, if you don’t want to end up like Joe Lieberman.
The rest of us would be well-advised to start looking around for new healthy competition against the Republicans, after the rotting donkey corpse is hauled off for good. It’s a serious issue, I think. This country wasn’t built to be run by one party; it wasn’t built to have parties at all. After we’ve all seen the light, and decided there’s nothing good about financially punishing rich people just for being rich, and outlawing all jobs that pay less than $7.50 an hour, and taxing thirty-something apartment rats to buy Viagra for rich old people with summer homes and swimming pools, and that the life of a murder victim was just as sacred as the life of the scumbag who actually did the murder…there’s a whole bunch of more serious, worthwhile questions to be settled. So who is to replace the Democrats as the party-of-loyal-dissent? And what should the new party-of-loyal-dissent stand for?
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