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...
Hey, it’s their show — they can say whatever they want. But it is ridiculous how much they focus on somebody that they insinuate shouldn’t be taken seriously…
She left politics like, what, five years ago? And “We still hate her” is a weekly thing, even now?
Just amazing.
It’s a bigger thing than The View, or Sarah Palin. We have quite a few people walking around among us nowadays, as free to live, work and vote as you and me, who are quick to identify problems but altogether lacking in cognitive thought when it comes to recognizing what a solution looks like. They seem to confuse “solution” with “consensus”; if we “all” agree on something, that’s as good as solving the problem, nevermind if the consensus has something to do with the stated problem.
The consensus, in fact, can be as disconnected from the problem as all-agreeing-to-hate-so-and-so. From there, they go literally years waking up each morning to find the problem the same as it was before, in fact, deteriorated. And their solution to that is to go back to the hatey-hate thing. I just don’t entirely understand it, although I suspect it starts with not seeing themselves as possessing any influence — the deteriorating conditions have to be someone else’s fault, maybe the fault of the object of their hatey-hate.
I guess.
But that doesn’t explain the adrenaline rush. It’s more than a buzz, there’s a sense of moral imperative about it. They behave as if some problem is going unsolved if they fail to indulge. So they must have some sense, at least, of ownership. They certainly have the sense of urgency.
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