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...
More wisdom from Yours Truly over on the Hello Kitty of Blogging…although in this case perhaps it is more precise to call it “clarity” than wisdom.
It comes down to cost/benefit. What’s the cost of being our friend, what’s the cost of being our enemy, what’s the benefit of being our friend and what’s the benefit of being our enemy. The four ingredients of great foreign policy. There isn’t a fifth one…those four are the only things that matter.
Meaning, those are the four things that affect the behavior of those whose decisions impact the United States. Having passed the mathematical midpoint between cradle and coffin, looking back on all that is behind me, I can’t think of a single example of any such influence-wielder being affected by any fifth thing. Those four, nothing more.
The occasion was my stumbling across this clip:
Our common error here has to do with recognizing a decision is “big,” as in, too big for us normal-folk. You’ll notice people start to make a lot of mistakes when they confront situations like this. We tend to say something like “well, whatever this guy over here says, he seems pretty sharp…” and then just sort of tune out. So you get decisions made that, when they’re distilled down into a video like this, you find they can be portrayed as shall we say nonsensical. But — if you were to try to make a video portraying the decision as more sensible, you wouldn’t be able to make one.
It’s the logic used in making the decision. You wouldn’t use this kind of logic in the decisions that are small enough for you, so why would the logic make sense in a bigger decision?
What if your kids started giving money away to their friends so they could become more popular in school? “Here’s some money! Do ya like me now?” “If I say no, will you give me more money tomorrow?” “Sure!” “Then no.” “Wha-a-a-a? Uh…Mom! Dad! Can I have some money???”
No, no parent would go for that…or very few. But then again, I suppose being a liberal means these situations are handled entirely differently, based on the level at which they are handled. Some different form of relationship physics has to come into play.
Hat tip to Kate at Small Dead Animals.
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But your analogy doesn’t take into account all the nuisances that are involved in liberal logic. It only makes sense if you don’t analyze it. It just feels good and that’s what’s most important.
- tim | 02/10/2011 @ 10:08I enjoy these, but the target environment is so rich that it’s like dynamiting fish in a shot glass.
Then again, i don’t mind watching lefty heads explode, so keep ’em coming.
- Physics Geek | 02/10/2011 @ 10:45And so charlatans who crave control over people learn to practice the craft of “seeming sharp”.
Now whom could that possibly describe?
- philmon | 02/11/2011 @ 21:50“… since that would be bad, it cannot be true.”
ROTFL!
- philmon | 02/11/2011 @ 21:56