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...
The minute I saw it, I knew I had to share it on my Hello Kitty of Blogging page…where I added my thoughts on where the all-powerful prevailing viewpoint is getting us into trouble:
…that everyone who has balls is missing brains, everyone with brains is missing balls, and the brains are more important if we can’t have both.
I’d like to subject all three of those axioms to some challenge, but they don’t let me decide stuff like that.
Seriously, what is life like if our so-called “leaders” have brains, or what passes for brains during Election Day, and are missing their balls? We don’t really need to ask that question because we’re living in that reality right now. Hoping I don’t need to list what I’m talking about; seems pointless…
And what’s life like if we get someone in charge who is commonly thought to be some kind of a dullard, but needs special briefs to haul those things around? I suppose everyone who’s anyone is going to be thinking back to what’s-his-name…and here and there, you can find some isolated pockets of people who thought that was some kind of misery. Your nearest faculty lounge in a high school or college, a Daily KOS thread, Zucotti Park maybe. Well, Real-America had two chances to vote on it, and history says our “prevailing viewpoint” was pretty damn clear on whether it was okay or not.
I think balls are more important than brains. Brains-without-balls has done absolutely nothing for us; that combination has pretty much broken everything, and fixed nothing. I’d say you have to have balls if you have brains, because without balls, the brains provide nothing but marketing cachet for some nameless-faceless-anonymous-busybody man-behind-the-curtain, who probably doesn’t have America’s interests at heart, because if he did, he wouldn’t be behind a curtain. We’ve learned the lesson and that’s what it teaches, time after time.
But no, I don’t think we have to choose.
Good old Fred. Why didn’t we pick him again? Oh yeah…something to do with debates. You know what? I have a fourth axiom for you. These things we call “debates” are toxic to our republic and we need to get rid of them toot-sweet…or else, completely shake ’em up, stem to stern, make them completely different from what they have been in recent years.
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These things we call “debates” are toxic to our republic and we need to get rid of them toot-sweet…
Agreed on “the things we call debates” point. But I LOVE Gingrich’s ideer about one-on-one, two hour, Lincoln-Douglas style debates. No moderator, just two guys going at it for as long as it takes, two hours max. Rumour has it he and Cain sat down for one of those on C-SPAN recently, but did we hear anything… anything AT ALL… about that? Nope.
I want a bumper sticker that reads “Fuck the Media!”
- bpenni | 11/10/2011 @ 10:33Ditto that about the debates and what the Old Hippie said 😉
- tim | 11/10/2011 @ 11:22Bring back the stumps!
That graphic would make a great T-Shirt.
- philmon | 11/10/2011 @ 12:39…and what the Old Hippie said 😉
That would be Mister Right Wing Hippie to you, Sir. 🙂
- bpenni | 11/11/2011 @ 10:18We didn’t pick Fred because Fred had to be dragged into the race, then didn’t work it once he was there. I love Fred – had the Thompson 2008 button on my blog for months. But, when he got in the race, he stopped saying what needed to be said. So far, Cain hasn’t stopped that; maybe he’ll go further.
I wouldn’t mind Perry either, but I’d have a hard time holding my nose and voting for Romney. I’d probably still do it, but I probably wouldn’t have a button on my blog. My problem with Romney is that, to us, he’s Obama-lite, but to the left, he’s “obviously the one a majority of these Republicans want to run things.” So, he’s a so-so President (or worse), we have to hear the same thing we’ve been throwing at them. “You had the office; why couldn’t you get what you wanted to do done?”
I want a guy who will actually govern the way he campaigns. Maybe that’s not something that happens any more.
- Daniel | 11/11/2011 @ 19:00