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...
Why was an Asian-American student beaten up by black students?
Thomas Sowell would like to know.
Those who explain racial antagonisms on some rationalistic basis will have a hard time demonstrating how Asian Americans have made blacks worse off. Certainly none of the historic wrongs done to blacks was done by the small Asian American population who, for most of their history in this country, have not had enough clout to prevent themselves from being discriminated against.
While ugly racial or ethnic conflicts can seldom be explained by rational economic or other self-interest, they have been too common to be just inexplicable oddities– whether in America or in other countries around the world, and whether today or in centuries past.
Resentments and hostility toward people with higher achievements are one of the most widespread of human failings. Resentments of achievements are more deadly than envy of wealth.
The hatred of people who started at the bottom and worked their way up has far exceeded any hostility toward those who were simply born into wealth. None of the sultans who inherited extraordinary fortunes in Malaysia has been hated like the Chinese, who arrived there destitute and rose by their own efforts.
That’s a heavy thought: That the animosity doesn’t come from people being different, it might come from people being similar. As in, sharing similar circumstances on an outta-the-gate basis…and caught trying to make themselves better through hard work. Thereby turning up the pressure on the others. Crabs in a bucket.
More and more, it seems the “R” word is being used as a mask of sorts; a disguise for crabs-in-a-bucket syndrome. And Sowell makes a great point about this particular attack, you can’t argue that it’s any kind of retaliation against historical wrongs. Not unless you know something I don’t know.
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Don’t forget about the recent beating death of Chinese immigrant Tian Sheng Yu in Oakland. While he and his son were walking down Telegraph in broad daylight, the son was slugged by a black kid out of nowhere.
His father, 59 years old, returned to confront the assailants as to why they did that, and they beat him to death. The Left (and its lawyers) immediately leapt to the defense of the two thugs, claiming that it wasn’t a “hate crime” due to the fact that they had been drinking (that’s the defense, all right.) The Chinese community, up in arms over the ongoing assault on old folks, has predictably been branded “racist” for pointing out the obvious.
Sickening.
- rob | 05/05/2010 @ 09:57