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...
From Mary Katharine Ham, via blogger friend Cassy Fiano.
Just watch…
Helen, you need to pick ’em better.
My own comment left at Cassy’s place…
Was he not supposed to be a liberal?
I ask because, just in the short clip you showed, he made several logical points that absolutely, positively, completely depend on the idea that one shows one’s compassion, or lack thereof, through the public policies one selects for promotion or resistance. Indeed, this is a central pillar of his overall thesis. If you know enough to be a conservative, you probably know enough to understand this is an enormous mistake. He gestures like a lib. He talks like a lib. He thinks a relaxation of assault laws means “living under the threat” of violence or something…like a lib. I can smell tofu on his breath through the video.
He has a very weird voice. It sounds conflicted. It sounds like he’s been blessed with an abundance of the hormones that plunge a growing boy’s voice downward in pitch, so that he could naturally try out for the bass section of the choir, but then he went and hung around a bunch of “aggressively non-threatening NPR males” in college and, because his maturity wasn’t quite there yet and he was still in his formative years, started warbling above middle-C to try to fit in.
I just barely skimmed MKH’s run-down and haven’t exhaustively studied this, but I’m ready to lay some hard cash on the line that this guy is one of the 25% who thinks Obama is doing a great job and just needs some more time to clean up the awful messes caused by the eight years of…blah blah blah you know the rest.
I’ve not put much additional effort into trying to answer my own question. My “lib-detector” has its errors and its flaws…like everything…but I trust it more than I trust the words people use to describe where they sit. A lib is a lib is a lib…yup, I can smell ’em.
All libs are not American Castrati, and all American Castrati are not libs. But this guy’s both.
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You aced this one Morgan. I saw the clip at several sites and my natural reaction tracked your lib-detector but I don’t have the word skills to ‘splain it.
- franklaughter | 10/19/2010 @ 06:33I’d probably have been in way over my head with her, but I find her slightly abrasive, combative wittiness kind of charming, and I’ve always been a sucker for the cute, smart geeky type. How long that would last before I tired of it, I don’t know.
But I think I am going to have to go read some of her blog now (which has apparently been dormant for 10 months or so now)…. just for fun.
- philmon | 10/19/2010 @ 10:48All this fellow admitted was that he wasn’t man enough for her. We can see that. Why he hung on for two years is we always want what we can’t have.
She showed class in not publicly stating his shortcomings, but that would have been a treat. .
- jamzw | 10/20/2010 @ 09:47Time and place, Jackwagon.
- tim | 10/21/2010 @ 10:05