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...
John Hawkins just took a poll of 55 right-of-center bloggers (this time around, we did not partake). The results are here.
One cannot help but wonder how well the nation’s future would be doing — hey, come to think of it, that’s supposed to be more important than anything else, right? — if you were required to be a right-of-center blogger in order to cast a vote in a national election. With things as they are, all the riff-raff voting, that future is looking a little on the dim side. In fact, if you accept that in a democratic-republic such as ours, if nearly everyone sees something as a bad idea, maybe it shouldn’t be done…with the stimulus and bailouts, we seem to have failed that test. Another test, derivative of that one, is that if nobody anywhere can put together a coherent argument why a proposal is a good idea, or merely a non-harmful idea, it should be tossed into the “bad idea” stack until the time such an argument is forthcoming. We’ve failed to do that, too.
But what really makes me entertain the idea of only-right-wing-bloggers voting? Sensible things like this…
If you had to make a non-binding choice today, which of the following candidates would you want as the GOP’s presidential nominee in 2012?
Mike Huckabee: 1 (2%)
Tim Pawlenty: 2 (4%)
Ron Paul: 2 (4%)
Bobby Jindal: 9 (17%)
Mitt Romney: 10 (19%)
Mark Sanford: 11 (20%)
Sarah Palin: 19 (35%)
Always makes me nervous to see my viewpoint in the majority, anywhere. I harbor no ambitions toward rebellion, but it does make me want to re-check things. Well, things check out. Usually, that means the facts are becoming obvious…
See, there is some hope. There’s going to be a lot of learning going on over the next 46 months, all up & down the political spectrum. A lot of learning carefully customized — life always carefully customizes it this way — to what we need to know, that we don’t know yet. Things our country desperately needs to learn.
It’ll happen, folks. And we’ll survive. We’ve had 44 presidencies now; only a dozen, perhaps just a smattering more than that, were truly worthy of mention. The rest of them were bobblehead-figureheads. Mediocre guys. In over their heads, you might say. Just like now. The nation survived.
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I find your lack of discouragement…encouraging…
- pdwalker | 03/10/2009 @ 11:14Morgan,
SP needs two things to top the ticket: $1,000 contributions times a hell of a lot of conservatives, and the momentum to draw corporate money away from other Repub candidates. I applaud your consistent application of logic as to why SP is the best of the bunch, but unless you’re going to Alaska to work for her campaign, she needs more than that. Perhaps it is your calling (if you believe in that sort of thing).
- wch | 03/10/2009 @ 13:33The Palin Paradox is that she wouldn’t be so valuable, if it wasn’t so tragically rare for someone to stand up for these — I hesitate to call them “principles,” they’re more like simple articles of historical fact — without apology.
Obama’s doing such a great job of showing how poorly the liberal foot fits into the reality shoe. We really don’t need a bubbly precocious and energetic female to represent the dissent; and, honestly, when she talks I do get that feeling parents get during their five-year-old’s performance in a school play, when the practice sessions haven’t been pursued with the recommended diligence. Omigawd, don’t screw up, don’t screw up, don’t screw up…and last I saw, she did have some things to learn about speaking on the national stage.
But good heavens. She never made a gaffe as bad as giving $40 worth of DVDs to the British PM, to reciprocate a priceless pen holder made from the timber of an anti-slavery ship, and then telling Britain it isn’t that important anyway. Talk about sending a little boy in to do a man’s job!
- mkfreeberg | 03/10/2009 @ 13:50Sanford would have been my first choice. No spit on Palin, I like her – but my libertarian southern streak prefers the governor from South Carolina.
- Daphne | 03/13/2009 @ 17:33