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...
Gerard is taking stock of where the blame and shame should go, with regard to the release of Lockerbie bombing mastermind Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, whose eyes are downcast, hat pulled down over his face, nose tucked into jacket collar, as he boards the plane home — to a hero’s welcome.
Who else should be looking downward, wistfully, at a ground they wish would swallow them up on the spot? Who else toils under the heavy burden of a boulder of guilt and shame on their shoulders? Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill? The entire Scottish government? Scotland herself? Just the moral imbeciles and reprobates who write overly-obsequious columns defending the decision? Perhaps, as Gerard’s headline says, the entire civilized world?
I vote for the last one.
It’s a topsy-turvy world in which we live. You don’t see these “tributes to our decency” written up about decisions to do things that make it more likely innocent people will live to see another day. No, you don’t; the extension of the right to live, somehow being connected to the personal decency of the authority who decides to make that extension, always seems to be granted to people who would murder others, or who would preserve the lives of those who would murder others.
“Civilized” behavior has come to have something to do with preserving those who destroy, or destroying those who would create or preserve. If you preserve those who create or preserve, or destroy those who would destroy those who would create or preserve, it seems no one’s ready to call you civilized. Those who are ready to call you a barbarian, on the other hand, have to queue up in back of a very long line.
Time to dig out that Bible quote again, you know the one…the one we like…Isaiah 5:20. This time I’ll let you Google it.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 08/28/2009 @ 06:31