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...
I came up with a thirty-ninth thing I’d like to do if & when I start running this place. This place, means the country. America. Except I don’t have it in mind to be President…two years of being made to apologize for the fact that I think killers should be killed, and I think unborn babies should not be, telling the entire country about my tax returns and late payments and out-of-wedlock children just to share power with Congress, ain’t my cup o’ tea.
My thirty-ninth thing goes like this…
I will introduce Premium Do Not Call. When you go to the Do Not Call Registry, you can bill a recurring or non-recurring subscription to your credit card or PayPal account. For a nominal fee, you can then make it really, really super-illegal to call your phone number, rather than just kinda-sorta illegal…If a telemarketer makes so much as one call to a Premium Do Not Call number, everybody responsible is subjected not only to fines, but to personal indignities. Something involving nakedness, smearing with syrupy confection products, bondage, sexual fetishes, live television.
Guess what inspired that. It happened three times tonight, twice last night, three times Tuesday night, once Monday night, three times on Sunday. I caught one of them on Sunday. I did it by screaming into the phone as I was answering it. If you don’t do that, the assholes hang up on you. They hang up before you ever get to talk to a person. Yeah — they got machines, calling the wrong number, hanging up on people. The humans don’t operate with enough efficiency to piss off enough people per hour.
I’m going to go out and get some air horns. Put one by each handset in the house.
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Sounds like you and I have another pet peeve in common!
- philmon | 12/07/2007 @ 11:07You would NOT believe it. I don’t remember the names involved when I get these guys on the phone and they ask “is (blank) there?” but I have the impression we’re talking about multiple people who have had this phone number, and probably within a short time. Collection agents for them, plus a bunch of damned telemarketers who have no idea WHO they’re talking to and don’t care who. 7 p.m. rolls around, and it’s like a damn three-ring circus.
This is our first holiday season here. As I’ve said previously, it seems like something is going on this time of year. Credit cards, I guess. They’re handing out shiny new credit cards now so they can hand out shiny new inches-thick bills in January…for bad parents who lack the balls to say “no” to their kids.
But how come nobody can get their dialing machines to work? That’s the mystery.
- mkfreeberg | 12/07/2007 @ 11:21I still get calls for my wife, who died two and a half years ago. She’s still on their lists. I have random bits of insanity when it happens, which usually involves me saying horrible things to these people. I’m hoping I get put on the “do not call because the person at the other end is stark raving mad” list.
- Allen L | 12/07/2007 @ 12:29