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...
Guys on the radio made a quick observation that I thought was thought-provoking and noteworthy. Just wanted to jot it down real quick.
I would bet…you may assemble any focus group you care to assemble. Democrats, Republicans, greenies, vegans, fems, just throw together whoever you want as long as the group is somewhat random. Just make it a bunch of real people. And I will bet time after time, the consensus will emerge among the focus group that the following is agreeable.
The folks who get the sound bites and tell us what to think, will never agree with it. But “real” people will.
Here it is:
Something bad should happen to the career of Mike Nifong long, long, long before anything happens to Don Imus. Nifong is more dangerous than Imus. He’s more of an embarrassment. The world is spinning all wobbly on its axis while Nifong is still allowed to do what he does, and it could hum along just fine with Imus allowed to keep doing what he does.
Pretty much everyone will agree with all that, as long as they’re real people.
Our pundits are selling us something we don’t even want to buy. And the ongoing events being any indication, we’re scarfing it up and beggin’ for seconds.
Update: And as far as that goes, I think the focus group would mostly agree this is silly:
…when asked about more mundane matters — like the price of some basic staples — [former NY City Mayor Rudy] Giuliani had trouble with a reporter’s question.
“A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30,” he said.
A check of the Web site for D’Agostino supermarket on Manhattan’s Upper East Side showed a gallon of milk priced at $4.19 and a loaf of white bread at $2.99 to $3.39. In Montgomery, Ala., a gallon of milk goes for about $3.39 and bread is about $2.
I know what groceries cost, believe me. Unlike whoever trotted off to D’Agostino’s with Blackberry in hand, I’m a raging cheapass. Let me tell you something: Giuliani did alright. He’s still wrong by any reasonable measure, but he’s a lot closer than I would have expected.
Buck fifty a gallon? I’ve actually paid exactly that, at one of the ritzy places where I splurge for the really nice salad dressing and sauces, no less. The caveat is that it’s the second gallon of two, on special. But it can certainly be done. The D’Agostino’s Blackberry reporter embarrassed himself or herself. I’ll not be sending them down to buy my groceries for me anytime soon. I’d be much happier with Giuliani doing it.
And bread? Seventy-four cents, babe. I’ve paid as little as fifty-eight. It’s called “bag your own,” otherwise known as food-stamp stores. Looks like Giuliani knows a little bit more about them than whoever was trying to slime him. What was the point of this?
Even better question: How often do Democrats get ambushed this way? I’d love to know how Hillary would do with it.
Update: Nifong still stands. Imus is fired.
I find it impossible to believe that anyone, anywhere, with red blood and a triple-digit I.Q., would be willing to place their name under these words: If it’s alright with Sharpton it’s okay with me, and if it isn’t then it’s not. I don’t think you can find anyone anywhere who’d be willing to sign onto that. And yet…how do we conduct ourselves.
NBC News dropped Don Imus yesterday, canceling his talk show on its MSNBC cable news channel a week after Mr. Imus made racially disparaging remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
The move came after several days of widening calls for Mr. Imus to lose his job both on MSNBC, which simulcasts the “Imus in the Morning” show, and CBS Radio, which originates the show.
I can think of a few people I’d like fired. How do I do that? Falsely accuse someone of rape and then wait a few years?
Just damn.
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