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...
MW:
(n.) a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all
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Hurricanes…more laws, raise taxes
Tornado[e]s…more laws, raise taxes
Hot…more laws, raise taxes
Cold…more laws, raise taxes
Flooding…more laws, raise taxes
Drought…more laws, raise taxes
Earthquakes…more laws, raise taxes
Missing Child…more laws, raise taxes
Someone Offended…more laws, raise taxes
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It’s a bit funny, albeit in a dark way, because to those insisting on raising these taxes the ultimate evil would be “to do nothing.” A tax, by the very definition of the term, diminishes you so you can’t do as much. So taking it to extremes, a highly effective way of making sure nobody manages to do anything would be to raise their taxes to “cover” everything they’ve made. And when raising-taxes is the answer to every problem that comes along, why should we not take it to extremes?
They seek to fool others, or else someone else is successfully fooling them. Could be both, but at least one must apply.
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“……more laws, raise taxes”
- CaptDMO | 05/29/2015 @ 06:59WOAH! Full STOP!
I’m not seeing the words “paid consultant committee”, or “tenured experts”, there ANYWHERE!
Why wouldn’t your first choice be “Raise Taxes”? More money is always useful, and it’s not like anybody HAS to pay taxes…….
- Robert Mitchell Jr. | 05/29/2015 @ 08:30Why my dear Robert, you are absolutely correct. Only the little people pay taxes, and our glorious Demokrat peoples party has not been little since we flooded the nation with illegal voters and impoverished and bankrupted the Republican dogs!
- P_Ang | 05/29/2015 @ 09:56A side note on “doing something”:
Years ago I had a conversation with a member of the local school board about an anti-drug program used in our town’s schools. I showed him statistics that indicated that young people who went through this program were, in fact, MORE likely to use drugs than young people who did not. He replied that it didn’t matter, because, “Drugs are a serious problem, and we have to do SOMETHING.” Incredulous, I asked him if he really believed that doing something that made the problem worse was preferable to doing nothing. He insisted that it was. He kept saying over and over that we can’t just do nothing, we have to do something, and so we should continue this program regardless of whether it proved effective or not.
I could have comprehended if he had said that he didn’t believe the statistics. Even if he didn’t have any counter statistics, if he had insisted that he had studied this program and it just made so much sense, the techniques were just so obviously good ideas, he was just sure that it must help, and if the statistics say otherwise, the statistics must be mistaken or biased. That would have been at least a somewhat rational position. But he didn’t even try to claim that the program worked. He said that it didn’t matter if it worked, as long as we were doing SOMETHING.
That’s why liberals call themselves the party of science, I guess.
- saneperson | 06/01/2015 @ 09:02