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...
Not Articulated Outright III
Smart people have problems with the way they think about things, sometimes, that dumb people don’t have. Believe me, I’m in a position to know.
One of the problems smart people have, is that their brains, like high-performance sports cars, fail to function at their peak when they’re just tootling along. They want to go faster. And so they become vulnerable to being “out-thought” by clever charlatans who can give them a good “nudge” off in the direction the charlatan wants them to go. If the charlatan doesn’t speak the idea he wants to sell, word-for-word, the responsibility for going off on that bunny trail is all on the smart person and not on the charlatan.
Say the word “test” ten times as fast as you can. Now, what do you put in a toaster? No, the answer isn’t “toast,” it’s BREAD. That’s an example of what I’m talking about. I give you a good push in the direction of thinking what I want you to think, but I don’t actually say it word-for-word; I leave that up to you. That you would put toast in a toaster, is an idea that makes no sense, and for me to risk my reputation by putting something into words, I need my statements to make some sense. But I can imply things all day long; silly, nonsensical things. If and when someone wants to pick up on what I’m implying, the responsibility rests on them.
So we have all these silly things, only implied, not articulated outright.
And the thing implied here, not articulated outright, is this.
President Bush is stupid, and with a friendly, Republican-controlled Congress doing his bidding, our government is doing stupid things. He’s acting on false intelligence and invading countries that aren’t a threat to us. That’s one reason we need to give Congress to the Democrats, so they can provide a check on these dumb things the President is doing. Furthermore, Republicans are a bunch of family-values hypocrites. Their ranks are loaded with perverts like Mark Foley, who sent inappropriate messages to a sixteen-year-old male page.
Republicans knew all about what was going on. Democrats didn’t. Republicans, therefore, are known to cover for a sexual predator in order to hang on to a congressional seat. If the Democrats knew about what Foley was doing, surely they would have blown this story wide open and brought him to justice. But they couldn’t do that because Republicans control Congress.
We need the Democrats to control Congress. We need their superior powers of observation, their solid connections to science, and their critical thinking skills to run a check on this Bubble Boy presidency.
It would seem this thing with Foley has been going on for at least five years….
Uh, ahem.
We got a little bit of a contradiction here. Democrats are so smart they know what’s going on…except they don’t…even when it’s been going on for years.
I think I’m starting to see why this argument isn’t being articulated outright anywhere. Instead, the voters are being led down a path, to reach the desired conclusions on their own. The question remains, did the Democrats know about this or not? Two answers are possible, and only two; either one will compromise the message that a Democrat-controlled Congress will fix much of anything; and so, I’m not holding my breath waiting for the answer.
But boy, I’d sure like to know what it is.
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