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...
Striving to answer the question asked by many early yesterday morning, Where Have All The Real Men Gone?, I commented…
Our feminists decided it was oppressive for fathers to decide what men their daughters would marry, and so they fought for the rights of women to determine their own destinies. By screeching and bitching; and, predictably, we did exactly what they wanted. Unfortunately, another taboo, unstated, set in: It was equally oppressive to assess how good of a job these “brides” were doing at picking out their men. Well the fact of the matter is, if we wanted to elevate the quality of life of our women, the first thing we’d do is reverse course, and put their fathers back in charge of picking their husbands. The evidence is unmistakable. Were we to conduct an even-handed survey on how competent the marriageable girls have been, over the last fifty years, picking out their studs that their daddies were no longer picking for them…were we to be as harsh in such a survey as we are toward the decisions made by young boys…we’d be reaching for the “FAIL” stamp and bringing it down with a mighty whallop. It’s not just mild failure. It is a scathing verdict of failure. They’ve thoroughly bolluxed it up. They’ve ruined their lives, on average, along with the lives of others far more innocent.
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Who pays? Well, the Dagny Taggarts of the world, embarking on what turns into an exquisitely frustrating search all the world over for the Men of the Mind. Dagny becomes piqued, then mystified, then upset — the Men, the Capital-M Men, seem to be gone. Except…and this is exceedingly tragic…in our world of reality, they didn’t pack up and scamper off to Galt’s Gulch in Colorado. They aren’t on strike. They really are gone. Gone, or mostly gone. We made it clear to men that so long as they developed and used their male gifts, they would not be welcome…so the gentlemen did exactly what was requested of them.
If my observations are true, then what would have to culminate from this would be a widespread and mighty hunger tormenting our females, as, just like the referenced heroine from Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, they search in vain for the real men who used to roam the earth in abundance. This depends on the notion that women can be left unsatisfied, after being provided exactly what they have demanded from one moment to the next. That seems far-fetched at first…
…but a cursory reading of classical literature, going back to Greek and Roman times, will confirm this has been a failing of humans throughout recorded history. Being less than cautious about what to request under the provisions of the latest Faustian contract, and suffering subsequent damnation from the consequences. And women are human.
They’ve been getting exactly what they want. And, so goes my theory, they are left dismally unhappy by the results. Like Dagny, they can’t find what they want and what they need. Unlike Dagny, who is a fictional literary device, they are missing the magical granite-hard shell of her sphere of perpetual sanity, which was used to move the story along throughout a thousand pages. Women are real people — when they’re left too frustrated for too long, bad things happen to their abilities to interact with the environment around them.
And so, if my theory works, we are due to be engulfed by a rising deluge of psychotic Dagny Taggarts.
And as if some cosmic, omnipowerful and omnipotent Kismet had been reading about this theory and decided “You know what we need, we need some events to make this Morgan Freeberg guy’s nonsensical ramblings look like there’s something to ’em”…look what wanders in on the news blotter from my old stomping grounds of Washington State.
Kitsap County deputies were called to the apartment on the 11800 block of Majestic Lane NW at 2:38 a.m. after a neighbor overheard yelling, crying and slamming doors, the report said.
When deputies arrived, the woman denied any assault had taken place, and repeatedly, without sparing a vulgar euphemism, told the deputies about how unsatisfied she was with her sex life — some of the time carrying around a half-gallon of whiskey while doing so.
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The woman resisted being arrested for theft — her screams were described as “blood-curdling” by one of the deputies. The deputy who drove the woman to jail reported she questioned his manhood, asked God to forgive him because “he knows not what he does,” and “donkey-kicked” him in the shin while he attempted to walk her from his patrol car to the jail, reports said.
My goodness. What on earth inspired such a tirade? The first two paragraphs nail it down:
Highly intoxicated and dissatisfied with her sex life, a 28-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday for stealing her husband’s wallet and later assaulting the deputy who booked her into jail.
The meltdown, which deputies witnessed along with the couple’s 3- and 4-year-old children, started when the husband, 24, had told his wife they had three hours to quit smoking, drinking, swearing and engaging in some sex acts because “they were going to be good Christians now,” the woman said.
I think we can take the young lady at her word, that she’s frustrated with a dearth of real men. It’s plain to see she’s developed an obsession about manhood. Sure it’s in the context of engaging in sex acts to keep her carnally satisfied, but it’s obvious that’s a metaphor for broader issues.
I have a more outlandish theory, and therefore a more fragile one, percolating away in my cranium. It’s an absolute, and therefore susceptible to logical destruction — still in the testing phases. My theory is, that pretty much anything and everything wrong with the world today, has been caused by a shortage of traditional masculinity in some area or another at a critical time…and with a re-infusion of manhood, could, in most cases, be fixed without damaging something else.
It’s true of most of our domestic policies as well as our foreign-relations policies. Yes, the prevailing viewpoint says Iraq is a sewer and a “quagmire” because of our “cowboy mentality”; but what really caused Iraq to happen? My memory says Iraq came to be what it is, because of twelve years and seventeen “strongly worded letter[s]” from the United Nations. Crime takes place in our inner cities, first & foremost the ones that have the most stringent gun control laws — and when it happens, the carnage is blamed on “all these guns lying around” and the call goes out for more gun control.
We do tend to call for masculinity to be further restrained, right after suffering from problems that result directly from the restraint that was already there previously. The thinking problem-solver can’t help but wonder what would happen if the genie were let out of the bottle again. But this is all going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.
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