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...
Slate’s True Colors
Slate Magazine shows us what it’s all about, and William F. Buckley calls them out on it. Slate’s dubious achievement is not so much to publish an article about President Bush being dumb, but to include the article in a package of vanguards that are supposed to represent the best of what the online magazine has to offer. So I guess it makes sense to, as the web site admonishes you to do, “Make Slate Your Home Page” if the whole point of the Internet is to give you daily reassurance that your President is a raging idiot — and everything else you can surf is just so much miscellaneous stuff.
No, I’m not surprised. I know there are people like that.
Side-point: Why is it when a web site or an application or a java script program has some idea about what should be my home page, the idea seems to always be one with very little to recommend it?
Back to the subject at hand. Who better to take up the clarion call to inspect this putrid boil of Bush-bashing, now that it has festered into a bright angry tenth-anniversary-thingy, than William F. Buckley. By the way, your Buckley “Word Worth Knowing” for this column is derogation:
v. der�o�gat�ed, der�o�gat�ing, der�o�gates
v. intr.1. To take away; detract: an error that will derogate from your reputation.
2. To deviate from a standard or expectation; go astray.
I shall not quote from Buckley’s column, for his task is light: To demonstrate how, and why, that which is silly, is silly. The way he goes about it is more art than science, and he does it well. Have fun.
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