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...
I won’t be able to explain the times in which we live to my grandchildren. Or to a Rip van Winkle Buck Rogers type who woke up in these times after snoozing for generations. Or to a space alien who just landed here.
When we use the word “diversity” we apply it to things that are not diverse.
When we point out diversity is the source of our greatness, we proceed to talk about mediocre things and not great things.
When someone announces his intent to achieve racial unity, we know in the instant he says it he’s going to work to divide us.
When someone posts a job and uses those magic words “equal opportunity employer women and minorities encouraged to apply” — same breath — we no longer wince at the contradiction; to the contrary, we accept this as natural.
We argue with people who think “affirmative action” has something to do with racial quotas. Then we argue with the affirmative action people, if they make a move to leave the quotas out of it.
We claim to be color-blind when, in the instant the words are used, it’s implicitly understood we’re about to be anything-but.
We claim not to tolerate discrimination, when the one thing that will really get our cackles up is someone forgetting to discriminate.
We’re supposed to be gliding gradually toward racial unity, but we’ve been gliding in that direction for a very long time.
And the people who claim to be bringing us closer to it, seem to be working hard at pushing it farther away.
I also notice a lot of them are male…liberal or liberal-leaning…with northern or New England roots…and whiter than ivory.
There’s a remote chance in my declining years I will be called-upon to explain this, to make sense of it. I can’t do it now and I have strong doubts I’ll be able to do it then. I can only wish for a long life to those who are working so hard to keep things the way they are, so that they’ll be around to help me out with it, to jump in when my wrinkly old face is giving that deer-in-the-headlights look.
Because I’ve always been completely-freakin’-lost on this stuff. All of it.
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…when the one thing that will really get our cackles up is someone forgetting to discriminate.
That would be hackles, Morgan. Just keepin’ ya straight… Unless you have a tendency to wanna laugh when stuff like that happens. 😉
- Buck | 03/20/2008 @ 16:45