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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.
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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...
Just heard a recording of David Letterman’s speech. This is going to be a short note that ties in to Memo For File 98, which in turn observes that — while Conservatives would much rather have Sarah Palin watch their kids over the weekend than the typical hard-left liberal political superstar, liberals, also, would strongly prefer Sarah Palin watch their kids rather than the typical hard-left liberal political superstar. In other words, when we disagree about whether Palin is more qualified than, say, Obama; we aren’t disagreeing quite so much about who has what qualities, but rather about what qualities are germane to discharging the “real” responsibilities involved in the Oval Office.
In other words, on the left side the mindset is…
Hockey Mom in the White House! What an abomination. Better stick a Chicago politician in there who can hide things.
There exists, today — and it was manifested in Letterman’s audience as he spoke about his ordeal — a rather striking and unexplored antipathy toward decency. It’s as if it’s become a common phobia that has swelled up to engulf suburbia, that we’re all in imminent danger of being blackmailed with our various shenanigans. And we should fret over this so much that we should find some slime to discharge the duties in our highest public offices, since that’s the only way we can be protected from extortion by anyone cleaner than we are.
It would do my heart good to learn anyone has the attention span needed to engage in such hijinks. Dirty laundry of the commoner? People like me? I don’t deny it’s there; but knowing what’s in it, to me it looks more like a cure for insomnia than anything.
Seriously though, this is not a good thing. I realize people are out there saying Palin is an incompetent boob, but that’s just liberal propaganda. And it seems to have barely mustered up the sense of decency to fall into a retreat formation this year…purely out of necessity. Don’t see a lot of people running around right about now saying “Thank God we kept that tundra dimbulb out of there and we have responsible wise people running the show” or anything like that.
But this is not a good thing. We seem to be in search of unclean people to make our weighty decisions…so that we can own them before they can own us. I’d applaud it if it were a resurrection of the Spirit of 1776, the notion that government should fear people and not the other way ’round.
But this hooting and hollering during Letterman’s speech, didn’t sound to me very much like that.
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Yeah, I got a joke “top 10” list via email this morning from a buddy of mine. I had no clue about this incident, but after reading through about the first 5, I started getting the impression that there must’ve been some sort of Letterman sex scandal.
So I googled it. That’s how I found out. I kind of like being disconnected from that sort of thing.
Letterman was funny 25 years ago. I was a fan. I haven’t watched him at all since the early 1990’s.
So the main difference between him and Bill Clinton, then, is one of them was president.
- philmon | 10/02/2009 @ 11:40