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...
Sidebar Update
I took “Empires Fall”, which I last discussed a couple weeks ago, out of the sidebar. I know this opens me up for criticism to the effect that I filter sources out, if & when they fail to sustain a bias parallel to mine, since this was the only “lefty” blog to which I had linked. Bring it on; I buy the Sacramento Bee whenever I can, which is hardly a citadel of tighty-rightiness or uncompromising Bush-apologism. The fact of the matter is, against my hopes, “Empires” just doesn’t stimulate debate. I think the following three sentences capture everything I’ve seen there: The White House is run by a bunch of inhuman monsters, and to prove it, here is a nasty look on Condoleeza Rice’s face, and if that’s not enough for you, you’re just a stupid idiot, which goes to prove my theory that only idiots support George W. Bush, who’s an idiot himself. And to prove that, my evidence is the fact that nobody is supporting him…except idiots. And I can prove they’re idiots because they support George W. Bush.
In short, I’ve given them a chance, and they’ve proven to be little more than an online circular argument. I know someone there is open to the idea that someone not leaning in the same direction ideologically, might have something worthwhile to say. But whoever that person is or whoever those people are, they don’t produce much of the material. I’ve kept an open mind, and it seems to be just a DailyKos wannabe with their own little collection of seven-pound-perch faux-scandals.
Well, I don’t want to maintain my sidebar this way. It should grow, not shrink.
Gerard Van Der Leun’s blog, American Digest, is more than a worthy replacement. His command of the language is a breath of fresh air. And as frosting on the cake, you can actually read about stuff in his blog, that you aren’t likely to read somewhere else.
His friend Running Roach has some good stuff too. RR’s distinguishing characteristic seems to be that he goes on at length about how he processes the information that finds its way to him…perhaps that’s not for everyone. Well, I’m into that kind of thing. Very little is said of this nowadays, but it really takes no guts at all, none whatsoever, to “brag” about the opinion you hold. Even when you’re outvoted, it still doesn’t take much testicular fortitude. But when you start delving into why you think the things you think, well…that, there, takes some balls. Because now you’re putting things up for criticism that can get quite personal, and still have a grain of truth. Ah, but when people do that they have a real chance of advancing an argument. (As opposed to the way other people do it…see my first two paragraphs above.)
While finding some time to get them added, as I promised yesterday I would do, I tripped across three others that appear to make a habit of providing worthwhile content: Everything I Know Is Wrong, National Center Blog and Tapscott’s Copy Desk. I am a newcomer to those three. But based on what I have seen, I’m interested in maintaining a habit of revisiting them.
There ya go. A purely right-leaning sidebar on here, the blog that nobody reads. Does this mean I’m prejudiced toward tighty-righty arguments and cast an unprovokedly jaundiced eye toward lefty-loosie ones? Or does it mean an argument can’t be logically compelling while making an effort to lean-left, and therefore any conduit of such arguments must be expurgated from these quarters in the unlikely event such a conduit ever finds a way in?
As I’m fond of saying over and over again about such open questions: Form whatever opinion you wish to. I’ve formed mine.
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- RunningRoach | 05/13/2006 @ 14:41