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...
When I first met my gal, I was so impressed with her inventive, practical mind and her fearlessness in trying new things that I rewarded her with a vicious browbeating about reading Atlas Shrugged until she eventually caved in. The very next Valentine’s day I made a bracelet out of Rearden Metal and sent it to her. She still has it, I think…although she’s lost the printed-out Atlas Shrugged excerpt that went with it. I know this because she’s asked me to reprint it many a time, and unfortunately I lost the Microsoft Word document I made for it. The bracelet remains. A little five dollar trinket with baked-on green food color…suitable for mounting on a wall, but not for wearing lest the wearer be left scrubbing away that evening on a green-shaded wrist. It is a symbol of all the positive things we see in each other, or some of those things, anyway.
Readiness, willingness and ability to put one’s efforts — and name — behind plans that are calculated to work. As opposed to strongly resemble, to the point of being indistinguishable from, some other milquetoast “normal” plan from history that might or might not have worked.
Fellow Sarah Palin blogger Karen Allen, over at Palination.com, is currently on vacation…but still courageously blogging away. And she sees a similar parallel between Alaska’s former governor, and SpongeBob ice cream.
And therein lies a message for us all, I think. How many times do we catch ourselves playing it safe…and ending up with nothing, not even the prize we were trying so hard to keep safe. Sometimes a little bit of “recklessness” is the only way to victory.
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…a vicious browbeating about reading Atlas Shrugged until she eventually caved in.
Wow. Now THAT is just about the best demonstration of True Lurve I’ve ever seen or heard of. That, speaking as one who’s attempted… unsuccessfully… to wade through the hip-deep turgidity of “Atlas” on at least three occasions. There are just SO many passages that would qualify for the Bulwer-Lytton prize, if said prize wasn’t limited to first sentences.
Your Squeeze deserved that trinket… except it should have come from Tiffany, encrusted with diamonds. You, OTOH, could arguably be charged with… and convicted of… partner abuse. 😉
- bpenni | 10/04/2009 @ 11:09BTW… I stand corrected. The B-L award isn’t just for opening sentences, it’s for a single sentence. But there’s this:
So I was sorta right.
- bpenni | 10/04/2009 @ 11:38You, OTOH, could arguably be charged with… and convicted of… partner abuse.
And she keeps coming back fer more. Drove her modest little silver Kia Rio across the continent for it, too…NY to Sacto. Go figger.
- mkfreeberg | 10/04/2009 @ 11:59Drove her modest little silver Kia Rio across the continent for it, too…NY to Sacto. Go figger.
Well… good on ‘er. You, too. Srsly. I like seeing happiness.
But I’m afraid if MY relationship rested on reading “Atlas…” Well, it wouldn’t be. 😉
- bpenni | 10/04/2009 @ 18:58While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.
- xlibrl | 10/05/2009 @ 18:14The world is not directed by long and learned proofs. All its affairs are decided by the swift glance at a particular fact, the daily examination of the changing moods of the crowd, occasional moments of chance, and the skill to exploit them–Hume, Tocqueville