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...
…but The Blog That Nobody Reads got a prominent mention last week, in Webloggin’s farewell post.
Webloggin was the byproduct of an earlier blog called Threshold-55. Three years, a bit of burnout followed by a 6 month layoff and then this beautiful site. We had many blogging members come and go. The Machete of Truth whom I miss dearly, Big Dog, Teri O’Brien, House of Eratosthenes, Republic of Biloxi, Jodi 210, The Otto Show (now a group blog called The Inside Straight), The Right Wing Cafe, Right Girl (aka Girl on the Right), Faultline USA, Bookworm Room, Right Truth, Okie on the Lam, Soccer Dad, The Absurd Report and The Intolerant Fox.
I can’t even begin to thank each of these blogs and their respective owners for contributing the finest conservative commentary I have ever read. You have been an inspiration!
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Please don’t think that the left has won one here. In fact quite the opposite is true. Webloggin is redundant in nature and it has simply outlived it’s usefulness. I am the acting Watcher at Watcher of Weasels and this has become my central focus in the blogging world outside of Newsbusters. Many of the Webloggin members also blog over at WoW so I urge you readers to follow us there.As of this week I will begin redirecting readers to Watcher of Weasels and hope you pass on the word. You have all been kind to me and the other Webloggin members and you have my utmost gratitude.
Happy trails, Trip. Thanks for hosting us during those three years before we moved onto our own domain here…and see you at the WoW.
Also, as some of you know, yesterday we managed to snag a HotLaunch, meaning we somehow earned a prominent mention at HotAir and it sent our SiteMeter stats spinning all wonky. We’ve already seen I dunno how many new accounts set up for commenting, so we’ll probably get some new friends out of this. That’s always a good thing. Take off your coats and stay awhile, ladies and gents. Besides, it’s cold and wet out there tonight, and you weren’t thinking of getting back on that highway anyhow.
What brought ’em in? Our post yesterday about a NewsBusters article — drawing our attention to a couple of wrinkly old hippy ladies who were acting like sixteen-year-olds…fulfilling most, if not all, of the things I’ve been noticing about the Palin bashers for awhile. In the space of a few minutes, they managed to hit all the high points. At least ten, maybe more, out of the 25.
There are many these bitter people running around. Most of them have rights and responsibilities on par with those of normal people…and while they’re acting all concerned that “we live in a country where [Palin’s accomplishments are] possible,” it seems to escape their notice that a lot of other people are pretty concerned, legitimately, about them. The ignorance they represent, and the hate. It doesn’t even have that much to do with politics, or liberalism, or Barack Obama. We’ve already managed to find out a few things about what’s taking place here, but it’s still something that requires further inspection. There’s something there that has gone undetected for awhile. Something living underground, predatory, slithering, toxic.
We won’t root it out. People have a right to be prejudiced. But we’ll probably learn a lot of helpful things about it over the next couple of years.
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Wow. Looks like my very best outlier days are just a tad below an average day for you.
And we won’t even talk about a “normal” day for me.
That’s a whole lotta nobodies, my friend. 😉
- philmon | 02/11/2010 @ 07:48My biggest day so far is 160. And that is a very small amount of somebodies.
Congrats on the monster day, Morgan.
- Andy | 02/11/2010 @ 14:44Let me add my congrats. Are we on the cusp of a new Instapundit or Drudge? I hope so.
You’ve got to read this letter that ran in my state-wide newspaper on Thursday, and I’d really like your comments. Here it is, in all of it’s glory:
How race may be decided
I want to voice my full support for Sarah Palin as the GOP nominee for president in 2012.
I, as a staunch believer in equal rights, fiscal responsibility, environmental awareness, sensible and reasoned deployment of our military forces, social justice based on long-proven constitutional precepts, the right to affordable health care and strong national security bolstered by thoughtful and intelligent diplomacy, feel that the former Miss Wasilla’s nomination will assure the re-election of President Obama, giving our country the best chance to achieve and maintain these ideals.
I further think that her unholy alliance with such fringe media entities as FOX News will prove to be the deciding factor in marginalizing her appeal to the point that, indeed, she will once again, albeit at the top of the ticket this time, preside over another overwhelming rejection of badly misled Republican campaign rhetoric and wrong-headed party strategy that is based almost wholly on rigid partisanship.
If, however, my wish for her nomination backfires and the American people surprise me by opting for Palin’s flash over Obama’s substance, then I’m afraid the nation will eventually come to feel the same as I would on the night of her victory: Beware of what you wish, for it may come to pass.
J.W. DILLREE Hot Springs Village
I counted at least 3 of your points made about Palin bashers, but they were all swirled together that there may actually be more. My spit-take was the line about Palin being “flash” and Obama being “substance”. Your thoughts?
- AnonymousGuy | 02/12/2010 @ 02:00Pretty much the same. Even though he’d set the tone by then, I still had to re-read that one sentence and make sure I hadn’t gotten the words mixed up. Obama represents substance?
Who — in any state, any township, on any point of the political spectrum — is out there saying “yep, that Obama, He really delivers”?
- mkfreeberg | 02/12/2010 @ 02:12[…] a text message from Cassy Fiano. Turns out she was the driving force behind our HotAir launch from last week. Looks like she sent the text the minute she submitted our link, and we didn’t hear the phone […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 02/18/2010 @ 07:34