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...
Anthony Randazzo, writing in Big Government:
The White House plan, as proposed, would not create an even playing field for competition, but would give big firms a competitive advantage by labeling them too big to fail. Ultimately, the regulation reform proposals represent a massive power grab from Washington.
The president criticized the doctrine of too big to fail (TBTF) yesterday, but his plan will create a tiered structure naming the biggest firms systemic risks to the system because of their size and interconnectedness. The proposed resolution authority would essentially act as a built-in bailout mechanism for those firms. So instead of ending TBTF, the president’s plan actually codifies the policy, essentially turning Wall Street’s biggest institutions into government-sponsored entities in the mold of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the crisis.
I’ve got some money riding on the prospect that 1) Obama is a one-termer, and 2) He’s going to get His ass handed to him next year in the midterms, just like Clinton in ’94.
I think Obama’s betting the same way I am. He isn’t governing like a President with a hefty, solid mandate; and He isn’t governing like a post-partisan anxious to heal a divide. Nor is this avalanche of ambition, with so little finalized substance to back it up, indicative of any kind of special energy or drive.
He is governing as if He is acutely aware of a terminal illness. “Now or never” seems to be the bumper-sticker slogan attached to each effort. He moves with all the haste of a man charging across a bridge made of solid ice, during an early spring thaw. Or slithering through a window that is about to slam shut, never to be opened again.
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He moves with all the haste of a man charging across a bridge made of solid ice, during an early spring thaw. Or slithering through a window that is about to slam shut, never to be opened again.
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant analogy. That’s going into the memory file.
- cylarz | 09/16/2009 @ 12:47The proper role of government is nothing more thatn to ensure the premises of free markets: Many small independent agents, free flow of information, no subsidies, no monopolies, and most especially no “too big to fail.”
The government must not allow “TBTF” but then “regulate” them differently from other firms. That is an unworkable perversion.
- Robert Arvanitis | 09/17/2009 @ 15:08