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...
“Would you quit calling it that? It’s not a Ground Zero Mosque. It’s not there.”
“It’s being built at Ground Zero.”
“It’s two blocks away, dimwit! Putz! Imbecile!”
“That’s at Ground Zero.”
“No it isn’t! You right-wing hillbillies, always putting the hate on science.”
“It’s as close to the crater as you can possibly build anything.”
“But it’s not there. It’s not at the bulls-eye. It’s just kinda close. Don’t you know anything?”
“It’s close enough.”
“No, it isn’t! And you’re stupid for saying so.”
“Yes it is.”
“Is not, not, not. Is not to infinity, squared, plus one.”
“It is…”
“ZOMG! That is disgusting! Reprehensible! Awful! Horrible! Disrespectful! A new low, even for you!”
“…aw, gee, here I thought we were having a lovely talk about facts, fiction, right, wrong, you smart, me stupid, all that good stuff.”
Yeah, and then there was a switcheroo. Now you’re having a debate about human decency and fact has nothing to do with it.
I guess the maxim that guides in this situation is: When the facts are on your side, pound the facts, if they aren’t then pound the table.
Pretty much the way liberals argue everything.
Update: Remember the Clinton blow-job thing? It went pretty much the same way. Linda Tripp produced some tapes, and after that it was all about OH MY GAWD what an evil troll she is and what deranged awful people these Republicans are…
But up until then what it was about, was “Linda Tripp is not to be believed,” in the words of Clinton’s lawyer Bob Bennett. Is this a much-loved and popular and effective two-times-elected President being smeared by unscrupulous lying opportunists who are responsible for creating the situation…or is the President responsible for creating the situation, do we have a sexual predator installed in the White House?
The facts emerge, and they say it’s the latter of those two that is the truth. And before you can say “wham bam thank you ma’am,” we’re having a debate about human decency instead of about facts. Switcheroo. The “is not, is too” is out the window.
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Oh, I’d rather not think about that ugly Clinton-blowjob episode again. I remember going around and around with liberals about this back in college. What’s it been now, twelve years or something?
What I never seemed to be able to get across to people – and something I wish the Republicans had pushed harder – was that it was never about the sex or the BJ’s or whatever you want to call it. It was about Clinton lying about it under oath. The question that has never been answered for me was, “Exactly whom did Clinton think he was fooling when he lied about this on the witness stand?”
- cylarz | 09/12/2010 @ 23:45[…] way this happens most reliably by means of the switcheroo. This is where the conservative and liberal start out with a productive exchange of ideas, reaching […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 12/22/2010 @ 02:14[…] debate facts when it seems the facts are on their side. When it goes the other way they pull the switcheroo. That’s the way it works and it isn’t all Obama’s doing. So He doesn’t get […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 01/21/2011 @ 20:57