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...
Robert Reich enlightens us:
Hat tip to Ed Darrell.
Seems to me we don’t need five or six dots for this lecture. We only need two: “The economy has been expanding, government should get its cut.”
All the talk about how much money the “rich” manage to take home, the rhetoric about “fighting over scraps” — let’s be honest, that’s just motivation. All that’s missing from your pathetic wretched lives, will materialize on your front doorstep the morning after you give us exactly what we want.
There is yet another dot — the other dots depend completely on this dot that was left unmentioned: A more progressive tax structure, plus more out-of-control government spending, will result in a more fluid movement of all this money throughout the economic strata. In other words, the money will be naturally redistributed because the government is taking more of it. Reich doesn’t come out and say this. But if it isn’t true — in fact, if it is even called somewhat into doubt — then his entire recommendation falls flat.
In fact, this entire school of thought only makes sense if there is a willing effort to forget what an “economy” is. What exactly is this thing we’re trying to revive, according to Move On Dot Org?
Update: Alan Reynolds has a red dot.
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