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...
A bigger hunk of venison than usual being cooked up at the Palin household tonight:
Congratulations, Sarah Palin: “Refudiate” Named Word of the Year
Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year.
“From a strictly lexical interpretation of the different contexts in which Palin has used ‘refudiate,’ we have concluded that neither ‘refute’ nor ‘repudiate’ seems consistently precise, and that ‘refudiate’ more or less stands on its own, suggesting a general sense of ‘reject.’ “the New Oxford American Dictionary said in a press release.
Palin’s use of “refudiate,” launched critics into a frenzy when she first posted the made up verb on her Twitter page over the summer.
“Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate,” the 2008 vice presidential nominee tweeted in July, launching a string of harsh responses from the media. While some called Palin’s linguistic mash up egregious others said she would never hear the end of it (look who’s laughing now).
Palin later joked at her own expense, “‘refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”
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Refudiate beat out other tough competitors for the top spot in 2010, including “gleek,” “vuvuzela,” “retweet,” and “tea party.”Whether you love it or hate it, you can longer refudiate the validity of “refudiate” and remember, never misunderestimate Sarah Palin.
Maybe there are some heady celebrations being planned at the Philmon household as well.
The evidence says Palin’s enthusiasm got the better of her, and that she just plain botched it. But of course, anyone who blogs knows this means next to nothing; humans make mistakes. What speaks to character, is how it is handled.
Our current President pronounces out the “p” in “corpsman,” and His slobbering fans ignore it entirely. If it’s brought up in conversation, they change the subject. If someone doesn’t go along with changing the subject, they call that person names like “racist,” “bigot” and “teabagger.” Palin, on the other hand, is confronted by her misuse of these words and she makes it into her own little piece of humor…and at the end of the day, when the chips are down, she wins again.
It’s a perfect metaphor for what America’s foreign policy should be. If we’ve thought out our principles, and made a conscious decision that they’re worthy of our support — what does it matter whether we’ve fully thought out the little stuff? All the Perfect Higher Beings with their hopey-changey nonsense aren’t any better at noodling out the little things anyway, so what’s it matter?
Big stuff counts big, small stuff counts small. That’s life.
Also…
“Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Breaks TLC Ratings Record
Sarah Palin’s documentary / travelogue / reality / biopic shattered TLC ratings records Sunday night.
The debut of Sarah Palin’s Alaska delivered a whopping 5 million viewers.
The first episode of the eight-part series was the most-watched program launch in TLC’s history.
That “Pffff” sound you just heard is hundreds of thousands of Palin-haters’ heads exploding, all across the fruited plain.
Taylor Marsh adds:
But one question continues to be asked, “Is Sarah qualified to be president?” Jeb Bush answered “you betcha!,” likely because looking at his brother he remembers where he started. The only difference between Sarah Palin and George W. Bush is political pedigree, the class issue.
There is a much better question to ask. Considering the great year Palin’s had in 2010, why shouldn’t she run or at the very least put a campaign together so she has the option?
Let us all, regardless of party affiliation or position on the ideological spectrum, agree to the following: If you voted for Barack Obama you have no business commenting on who’s “qualified” to be President, or, for that matter, who’s “qualified” to be or do anything at all. Leave the room, the rest of us will hash it out. Thank you. And yes, you should have volunteered to do that before you got called-upon to do that. Whatever confidence you have left in your own judgment on such a matter, is misplaced. But you knew that already.
Methinks the next thing to happen to that word “qualified,” is the exact opposite of what just happened to “refudiate.” It exists today, and tomorrow it should cease to be. If Barack Obama is “qualified” to be President, everybody and nobody is qualified to be everything and nothing.
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Yup. Here in the Phillmon household, we’re partying like it’s 1773.
The wife and I watched Sarah Palin’s Alaska tonight, which we had recorded last night.
No, not riveting television, by any stretch of the imagination. But then, outside of a few shows like Survivorman and Man, Woman Wild — reality type shows really aren’t my cup ‘o tea.
Did I say tea? 😉 (seriously, can I plug those simple bumperstickers once again? I think they embody awesome. I’d like to see them everywhere.)
But it was interesting to see her interact with her family, the famous wall to block out Joe McGinniss’s snooping eyes).
I love mountains and wilderness. Denali would be Mecca for me. Plus I noticed she is peppering the “interviews” with the very phrases that she has been ridiculed for — throwing it right back in their faces — one of the things I love most about her. It’s a big, symbolic flip off that shows they don’t get to her, which sends their heads fizzing like the “Pfffff” noise Morgan mentions above.
I’ll watch every single damned one of them if I have to put toothpicks in my eyes to keep them open (which I won’t for the reasons mentioned above) just to keep those ratings as high as possible. Because that “Pfffff” sound? It’s the sound of catharsis (my favorite Dennis Miller word).
- philmon | 11/15/2010 @ 21:00Let us all, regardless of party affiliation or position on the ideological spectrum, agree to the following: If you voted for Barack Obama you have no business commenting on who’s “qualified” to be President.
Sadly, that’s how I knew Barack Obama would be the next president of the United States: When people I know to be capable, intelligent, and generally rational actually started saying – explicitly, verbatim — that “being governor of a major, economically consequential state” is insufficient qualification to be vice- president, but “running a political campaign” is a perfectly sufficient qualification to be the actual goddamn Leader of the Free World.
That combination of ignorance and arrogance is fucking invincible.
- Severian | 11/16/2010 @ 12:33