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...
Thomas Sowell, “Democracy and Mob Rule”; were you under the impression that a proper “zing!” could only be laid down over the course of a snappy “zinger” sentence, and couldn’t unfurl over the course of a few paragraphs to unleash its purifying punishment?
The Professor shows how it’s done.
In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance.
Meanwhile, many in the media are practically gushing over these “protesters,” and giving them the free publicity they crave for themselves and their cause — whatever that is, beyond venting their emotions on television.
Members of the mobs apparently believe that other people, who are working while they are out trashing the streets, should be forced to subsidize their college education — and apparently the President of the United States thinks so too.
But if these loud mouths’ inability to put together a coherent line of thought is any indication of their education, the taxpayers should demand their money back for having that money wasted on them for years in the public schools.
Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them. It is common, for example, to hear in the media how some “protesters” were arrested. But anyone who reads this column regularly knows that I protest against all sorts of things — and don’t get arrested.
The difference is that I don’t block traffic, join mobs sleeping overnight in parks or urinate in the street. If the media cannot distinguish between protesting and disturbing the peace, then their education may also have wasted a lot of taxpayers’ money.
Zing.
We seem to be facing some kind of “quickening” here. It’s as if some massive hourglass were up-ended the day they stormed the Bastille, with enfranchised order placed at one end of a spectrum and revolutionary chaos at the other, the two points slowly coming together as the sands ran out of the hourglass. With city governments and retail suppliers of mens’ business attire openly declaring “We Stand With the 99%,” indications are that the two points have met.
I understand that City Hall and retail shops are just trying to appear hip, and plugged in to this newly discovered fountain of youthful energy. But there is danger in this. A line, in geometry, defines things that a point does not define. Enfranchised order carries with it certain powers. The power to subsidize, to tax, therefore to preserve and destroy, the power to create assemblies and break them up. Once we separate the powers again and come up with some “good” laws to thrust upon the enfranchised order with the duty to enforce, they can pick & choose which laws to enforce.
Anarchistic chaos, on the other hand, thinks in terms of us-versus-them. Friends and enemies. Gettin’-even-with-’em-ism. My point is, perhaps it is vital for the continuation of a civilized society, along with the public safety, that these two extremes should not be meeting like this.
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