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...
Got 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 go off. Didn’t notice the text message until a day or two later. Thanks Cassy!
Slightly different subject: There is a rumor going around that Dr. Thomas Sowell is the author of a quote that actually came from us,
Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe and safe things dangerous.
Yeah that sounds like it would come from him. But no, what happened was John Hawkins managed to score an interview with Dr. Sowell about the new book coming out, and chose to open it this way:
All right, and right off the bat let me ask you about a quote that showed up at number 11 on the best The 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2009,
Intellectualism has become the readiness, willingness and ability to call dangerous things safe and safe things dangerous.
Now this is a common perception among a lot of people. Do you think there is any truth to it?
Oh, my God, yes.
Awesomesauce. Thanks for leading with that, John. And to Gerard for linking it, made me all giddy to find out about this. Even if my name sorta slipped into the memory hole. That’s alright.
Of course, if you watch Sowell interviews a lot of them tend to go this way minute to minute, so I’m not joining much of an exclusive crowd. “Dr. Sowell, do you agree with this, do you agree with that, do you agree with this other thing over here?” Kind of like throwing palm fronds down in the dirt before The Savior in Jerusalem. But we’re flattered nevertheless. This is one of the great thinkers of our time, perhaps the greatest. Even if he has little way of knowing who we are.
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The use of Awesomesauce in one of your posts just made Old Iron a very HAPPY HAPPY man!
- KC | 02/19/2010 @ 08:55Hi,
Sorry to hear about Webloggin’, it was nice to see my pieces mixed in with such great articles from others. I lost touch with the site after I stopped writing for several months, then started focusing on Newsvine and then decided I had enough of the internal politics there and launched TIS with a few other former Viners.
If anyone wants to put together some crossposting efforts between your site and TIS, feel free to contact me.
Thanks Trip for the participation in a good and classy effort!
- OttO | 02/28/2010 @ 10:11