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...
High drama kills brain cells. Let all who doubt these wise words of mine, feast their eyes (hat tip to Boortz).
Too much attention received, too many movies watched involving mopey, dopey kids with trembling lips delivering tearjerker speeches to grown-ups resulting in a wonderful (fictitious) outcome.
“I’m supposed to be full of hope”; that would imply she voted in our most recent elections, and I’ll lay a few bucks on where her vote went.
If you voted the same way, remember this: Her vote counts just as much as yours. Maybe you think that’s alright because she came to the same conclusion you did…but she’s still a moron. If she makes a right decision about something, that’s a product of random chance. So you’re just as well off sharing your vote with a roulette wheel. And there are quite a few people running around thinking that’s how it should work. That, ultimately, is the problem. Lots of ideas about the way things should work, very little reckoning with consequences. They’re part of this problem, she’s part of this problem. Oh yes, she & they put on a great show of pretending to think about consequences. But they don’t. Not really.
Which is a great segue into this bit I saw yesterday about flaccid brains.
If government spending is growing faster than gross domestic product (GDP), can the resulting deficit problem be solved by: (A) decreasing the rate of growth of government spending, (B) increasing tax rates, (C) decreasing the rate of growth of government spending and increasing tax rates? If you answered A, you have a strong brain and can go to the head of the class. If you answered B, you have a flaccid brain and will need to repeat the class. I will get back to the C students later.
People with flaccid brains have a hard time understanding the consequences of actions, and they tend to treat variables as constants (e.g., I know how to drive, so I should be able to drive drunk). As we know from both physics and behavioral science, almost every action causes some reaction. Flaccid brains, for various reasons, have a hard time understanding this basic principle of nature. Hence, they rarely do real cost-benefit analyses or think about the long run.
An example of a flaccid brain is that which occupies the skull of Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, who, in a hysterical reaction to the Gulf oil spill, wants to shut down all offshore drilling. As damaging as the spill is, one major accident every 40-plus years (the Santa Barbara channel spill was in 1969) is something we can live with, given that we get about one-third of our oil from offshore platforms, which provide an enormous benefit to our economy and to everyone who drives.
Hehe, that’s a good wind-up and smack-down. And it’s an excellent description of the problem: The “flaccid brain” only reckons with one side of the argument rather than engaging in a balanced evaluation of both sides. It cannot competently walk a tightrope.
Nelson, and this ditz, would get along like bacon & eggs.
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Those 160,000 dicey years spent shaping the human genome apparently did not prepare us for leisure time.
- jamzw | 05/06/2010 @ 08:42I stopped watching after @ the 1:30 mark, I didn’t want to watch the part where she starts eating her own feces.
I’ve got a twenty spot that says she’ll be a host on MSNC next week…or Obama’s Drama Czar…or the new head of the EPA…
Tip you waitress and try the veal.
- tim | 05/06/2010 @ 09:30jamzw: No, mother nature would have executed these mush headed nutbags in due course through their own stupidity. Evolution has not prepared us for safety and the wealth that allows us to continue supporting these morons and their “head up their asses” lifestyle
but that’s just my opinion.
- pdwalker | 05/06/2010 @ 09:46All I have to say is this.
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