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...
Updated to correct my horrible misspelling.
I don’t want to comment with too much certainty on what’s going on with the weather in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but I do agree with Gov. Ed Rendell that there is a wussification problem going on. I don’t think I’m that old, but when I was a kid things were different. Where I grew up, when the winter had a mind to wreck wreak (thanks to the two pedants in the comment section) some havoc it meant business. And was school ever closed? I don’t recall it happening. Not one single time. I was done with riding the bus just as soon as I was old enough to ride a bike, and this was not an unusual arrangement at all. So we walked or we biked, regardless of what the weather offered…some kids got driven by their parents. Some. Not many.
Now, I know the Atlantic is less friendly than the Pacific and this can make a big difference…but there is definitely a wussification taking place. Emergency this, disaster that. Because it’s cold and there’s snow?
Now there’s some kind of scandal involving Christie in New Jersey. Melissa is having none of it…
The snow plow guys know what they have to do, right? The vast armies of Union workers are entirely competent, correct? They know how to Get The Job done, right?
So why does the Governor have to be there? It’s not like it’s freaking Katrina. It is snow. It is snow that will be plowed and cleaned up and that will eventually melt.
People will shovel. Workers will scrape. Life will go on. It’s Winter. It’s not a surprise.
What a molly-coddled society we’ve become that we even care what the Governor is doing during a snow storm. Man.
I think this is fair criticism. The Governor “needs” to be there for only one reason that I can think of: To declare the place a disaster area so the feds can jump in, if needed. So I have to lean in Melissa’s direction on this one: It’s snow. It’s not a volcano or a tsunami.
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I think this is fair criticism. The Governor “needs” to be there for only one reason that I can think of: To declare the place a disaster area so the feds can jump in, if needed.
Oh, it’s not even that. The only reason anyone cares that Christie isn’t there is because Chris Christie is a Republican, and this is one more “example” of a Republican “not caring about the little guy.” Wouldn’t matter if it was a tsunami or a volcano; the media’s default response to any weather more severe than a refreshing spring shower is “blame something, anything, on the highest-ranking Republican available.” A glacier could drop from the cloudless sky on, say, Ed Rendell’s Pennsylvania while he was off snipe hunting in Pago Pago and it wouldn’t matter, because Ed Rendell’s a Democrat and Obama’s a Democrat and so this unexpected sky-borne glaciation is, at worst, another example of “global climate change.” Case in point: it was severe enough weather to cause the cancellation/ relocation of a professional football game — which undoubtedly cost lots of people, including the state of Pennsylvania, a good chunk of change — but nobody’s bitching, because the media chose not to make a story out of it….
Gee, I wonder why. Right now, the president is a Democrat and the governor of Louisiana is a Republican. Shift Katrina forward to the present day, and anyone wanna bet whose head would roll for the criminal (and it was criminal) lack of preparedness in New Orleans?
It’s not so much that that we’re wusses these days; it’s just another hissy fit from the thankfully dying MSM.
- Severian | 01/02/2011 @ 15:19Good points all, but please change “wreck some havoc” to “wreak some havoc.”
- RMBragg | 01/02/2011 @ 18:57Severian makes some excellent points. I just have one more. Everything these days is about conditioning the American public to believe that even the most oft repeated mild difficulties in life are all crises that need, yeah MUST be dealt with by government. We can’t possibly be left to deal with such things as individuals, small groups or communities.
- Moshe Ben-David | 01/03/2011 @ 05:12The rural communities outside of New Orleans that were even more directly hit by Katrina proved that an entirely different mentality existed apart from New Orleans. The goal of the statists is to get all Americans to think and react the way New Orleans did.
What RMBragg said.
Are you after my job, RM?
–Resident Pedant, out
- bpenni | 01/03/2011 @ 12:03