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...
Recalling Sally Field’s wisdom…
Renewed optimism for you, Ms. Field. Nancy Pelosi may have disappointed you, but perhaps your prediction will come true up in New England:
New Hampshire’s State Senate is now unlike any in the country and unlike any before it. After Tuesday’s election, women now make up the majority of the New Hampshire State Senate. In an election year that saw Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Nancy Pelosi grab headlines and airtime across the country, New Hampshire didn’t just vote blue, it voted for women.
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Previously ten women held senate seats out of twenty-four in Concord, but now they hold thirteen.
I wish this meant something.
The problem is, it doesn’t. It doesn’t even say anything about voters in New Hampshire; they could very well have looked at two candidates running and decided one of ’em sucks, and that undesirable candidate just happened to be the only dude, therefore a woman was the best person for the job.
And we know it doesn’t mean the ladies have taken charge of anything. You don’t truly own a project, until and unless a blight upon that project is a blight upon you. One of the drawbacks to term limits in our system of government is that we defeat this attribute of ownership somewhat — all kinds of weeds in the garden are supposed to have taken root under the trowel of the predecessor.
I see it in President Obama. He’ll be mostly blameless for any domestic problems, and completely blameless in anything arising from foreign entanglements. There’s something our print media leaves undiscussed quite often, I see, since it has nothing to do with selling more newspapers — this dulling effect of women and minorites taking charge of things, since there is such an elongated dampening effect over time of their representatives truly taking charge of things. Perhaps that doesn’t apply to the New Hampshire senate. Perhaps there will be a genuine “The Buck Stops Here” attitude. Perhaps if they make the same mistakes the MEN make in the California legislature, they’ll admit it; or even better yet, they’ll have the foresight not to make those mistakes.
But knowing what I know about state-level politicians, I doubt it. And far be it from me to ever infer there’s something about women hobbling them from possessing such wisdom, since many women do — but having it, and keeping it, has nothing to do with one’s sex.
So we’ll just see.
To me, it would be much bigger news if the supply-siders took over a state legislature. The print media has a tendency to let us down, big-time, over this. They’re protected by their very own Constitutional amendment, but if such a thing ever happened, they’d never write about it. What an education that would be.
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We’ll never truly be past racism and sexism in this country until a majority of voters can look at headlines like “NH Senate in female hands” and respond…”Who gives a shit?”
That, my friends, is the day we will have true equality.
- cylarz | 11/11/2008 @ 03:48