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...
The survey paints a portrait of a restless and dissatisfied electorate at the beginning of a critical election year. More than seven in 10 Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing, and as many say they’re inclined to look for new congressional representation as said so in 1994 and 2006, the last times that control of Congress shifted.
Somewhere in very-very-young-adulthood, like going back into the upperclassman-high school years, people start to become enamored of the idea of building things. You go back any further than that, and it’s not that way quite yet. If you’re in shop class or computer class you’re a “dweeb.”
The liberalism we have today is just an easy, cosmetic way for grown-ups to go through the motions of doing this building — even though, on the inside, they’re thinking about their minute-to-minute challenges in a purely middle-school way. And you know what I mean by that: What’s the cool thing to wear, where’s the cool place to go, what’s the newest cool dance move, which rock band am I supposed to be listening to.
I’m not talking about the hardcore “Bush planned 9/11” types. I’m talking about those who are simply inclined toward a leftist leaning. They just don’t want to be left out (heh!) of anything. They learned how to wear AC/DC tee shirts to middle school so they could be cool, they learned how to date/be the football jock/cheerleader. And then between 17 and 26 they figured out it was cool to have an actual impact on things, to just sample what becomes an obsession to many of us in old age: Leave something behind that wasn’t here when you arrived.
The current administration typifies this — this mistaken thinking that there is no contradiction here. Well, there is a contradiction. People who think this way, are drinking cups that seek to be more inviting on the outside than they are within. It ultimately doesn’t work. Building things is not for the timid; it means you have to absorb some slings and arrows, because it means for a few minutes…hours…months…you’re not going to be any fun to watch. If you’re fun to watch, every single minute, you can’t get anything done. It’s a trade-off. You get to pick one of the two, but you have to pick because you can’t have both.
It’s a pretty heavy thought. But in the decades ahead, it will be possible to express it all, and expect large numbers of people to immediately comprehend every nuance of it, correctly, in just three syllables: Obama. You know, that failed experiment from oh-eight. Check your bearings because I think you’re getting ready to make an Obama decision here, sport.
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Brings to mind the way of the child-novice: wear the uniform and carry the tools and you are the worker. Maturity comes only when you find out the real work takes effort, care, planning, and trade-offs more than it does the trappings. Like you pointed out, in real life you can’t be both fun to watch and effective all the time.
- kdaunt | 02/10/2010 @ 12:32Morgan, this blog contains more common-sense and laserlike thinking than I can find in one place, than just about anywhere else on what you call “the innerwebs.” You occasionally drift to topics other than politics, and even then you make a lot of sense. I must have re-read your “Things I Know” a dozen times. So much of it just…resonates.
Okay, sorry. Had to say it.
- cylarz | 02/11/2010 @ 01:27Cylarz is right. You’re very good at distillation. We’re going to need a lot of that in the future.
- chunt31854 | 02/11/2010 @ 04:22That’s why I’ve been here for a while now. “Things I Know” was the clincher. Even started a list of my own, inspired by his.
Ok, this is starting to sound like a gush fest. But after all, I do come here for a reason. And that’s the fact, Jack.
- philmon | 02/11/2010 @ 08:53Ha! Appreciate the kind comments, all. Cylarz’ comment sort of flew under my radar early this morning (for some reason, he tends to put up half-dozen at a time in the space of a few minutes…he must type fast) and from the moderation dashboard I was having trouble figuring out who/what you were talking about. Now I know. Thanks again.
- mkfreeberg | 02/11/2010 @ 09:42