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...
Had this thing growing in my head for a little while, since last week sometime, not being entirely sure where I was trying to take it. I’ve got a feeling now that I’ve put some definition into it and squeaked out the first ten bullets, it’s going to explode into a hundred or more in short order.
It’s amazing all the things we just presume are true, just because large numbers of other folks are already presuming the same thing. Isn’t it?
1. The merit of a relatively conservative argument is measured in its advocate’s willingness to compromise, which means to reject certain key parts of it; the merit of a relatively progressive argument is measured in its advocate’s willingness to do the opposite.
2. Freeing a man who killed innocent people proves you are “civilized” and “compassionate.” Stopping such a man from killing innocent people just goes to show you’re some kind of a knuckle-dragging rube.
3. If you have an opinion about how your congressman should vote, you should write to him and explain it so he can maybe take the time to write back and tell you whether or not you got it right.
4. If you pass the right law, you can make the people who are bound by it into better people.
5. One sure-fire way to improve an economy is to lower the standard of living of people who invest in businesses, and increase the standard of living of people who don’t.
6. I admire someone with the courage to do what he knows is right regardless of what anyone says, but he’s a drooling idiot if he doesn’t do it exactly the way I think he should.
7. You don’t know what you’re talking about unless, when you’re looking for superior wisdom, you look to the kids who haven’t been around very long.
8. Since it’s the entire world that might fizzle out, we’ve only got one shot at saving it; we’d better confine our efforts to little tiny immeasurable things things like unplugging our coffee pots.
9. The right to vote should extend to everyone, unconditionally. The right to earn a living, speak your mind in a town hall meeting, defend a family — not so much.
10. The key to economic recovery is to authorize our government to take lots and lots of our money away from us, and then possibly give it back to us again.
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Dude, you need to email me your address. This is right up the alley of that Thomas Sowell book I was telling you about. You need to read it … plus you’d really enjoy it as well.
- philmon | 08/24/2009 @ 06:48Just paste the link. Share the wealth.
- mkfreeberg | 08/24/2009 @ 06:50commie!
- pdwalker | 08/24/2009 @ 07:52The Vision of the Annointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell.
89 new and used from $3.75. Add your standard Amazon $3.99 shipping and you’re talking under $8.00
Excellent book. Well written. And it explains so, so much about how Progressives behave.
Know your enemy 🙂
- philmon | 08/24/2009 @ 08:29Oh, and try to win them over to your side. Whenever possible. We don’t want to wipe them out. We want them to wake up.
- philmon | 08/24/2009 @ 08:31“We don’t want to wipe them out”
Weeeeelllll…maybe a few of them.
- tim | 08/24/2009 @ 13:13I understand the sentiment. But I’m not going there.
- philmon | 08/24/2009 @ 13:42