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...
Last year I made the point, and I’d made this same point many times before…and I’ve made it many times since…
When two boys get in a fight on the playground, moderates are united with conservatives in their desire to take a chunk out of the hide of whichever boy threw the first punch. Liberals stand alone in demanding a pound of flesh from whoever threw the last one.
The larger point that this supports is that we are currently living in an era of nonsense. If someone on the boob tube describes a certain other person’s vision or ideology as “extreme,” you automatically know they’re talking about a conservative and not a liberal. Usually, the conservative will want to de-fund a program and that is found to be extreme.
But then if you do your homework, most of the time you’ll find out the reason there is this “extreme” desire to to de-fund the program it’s because the program is a boondoggle. Hence my comment about the era of nonsense. On my planet, if a program is soaking up funds every year and it isn’t doing what it is supposed to do, it’s a sensible and moderate position to take that the program needs to go away, or at least, some probing questions need to be asked about it. On Planet Talking Head, however, the only moderate position you can take is to allow things to continue as they have been.
Extremists are criticizing moderates for being extreme, and taking extremist positions, calling them moderate, and getting away with it.
Back to the schoolyard fight pardigm. I invoked it here and here and here and here…I like it a lot because it is a uniquely American value, a required value for any sensible, stable, self-sustaining civilization. You have the God-given right to defend yourself. People who do the right thing, should finish up ahead of the troublemakers.
Well. Look what Ben Shapiro found.
Last week in Boston, a seven-year-old boy named Mark got into a fight with a bully. The bully put his hands around the boy’s throat and began to squeeze. That’s when Mark fought back; he kicked his aggressor right in the family jewels. In a normal society, we’d celebrate Mark. Throw him a ticker tape parade or something. Bullies need a sharp kick to the testicles. That’s how you convince them that bullying is wrong.
But in Boston, Mark was charged with sexual assault.
Just to get this straight: Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank’s gay lover can run a homosexual prostitution ring from his apartment and Frank will not be prosecuted. But a boy kicks a bully in the berries and he faces expulsion from school.
It’s not the bully who lost his chestnuts. It’s our country.
Once again: The moderates stand with the conservatives. People who don’t give a rip about democrats and Republicans, will say — emphatically — no, you can’t do that. If bullies are picking on kids and they get some blowback from it, leave it alone, the situation handled itself. Save your interference for when the bullies are doing their thing and not suffering natural consequences from it, that’s what discipline is for.
The liberals stand alone in saying: Oh, no. Law and order? Can’t have that. Better to have chaos than law and order, if the law and order arrives by means of vigilantism. Better to let the hooligans win. Better to let Gotham City burn all the way to the ground than to have Batman running around doing his thing.
Liberals stand alone here. And yet, we end up doing things their way, time after time.
And we’re told doing it any other way is extreme.
And we believe it.
After awhile, you know, you can’t blame the liberals anymore. After awhile you have to come to the realization that upholding order over chaos is everybody‘s job. And we’ve been failing it. Shapiro’s right, it isn’t the bully who’s lost his cajones, it’s the country that has that problem.
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One could make the case that Mark’s life was in danger, seeing as how the other kid was actually trying to choke the air out of him. He reacted out not just out of self-defense, but self-preservation.
I hope Mark’s parents sue the pants off that school district if their son is expelled.
I have always liked Ben Shapiro.
- cylarz | 12/12/2011 @ 01:12