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...
1. We will get through this. America’s brightest days are still ahead. They just won’t happen with this person, or anyone from his party, in that office…that’s all.
2. Our government is restricted from establishing a state religion. It is also restricted from infringing on any free expression thereof. So long as atheism is not enshrined as the official state religion, this is still America.
3. Regarding Point #2: You are not obliged to agree with President Obama about anything. That’s not what this election was about.
4. If you believe in something, you believe in all of it. You do not compromise on any of it, because if you do it calls into question every other article of your beliefs — even the things on which you did not compromise. That’s the McCain error here, I’m afraid.
5. The mistake the country made tonight, is part of a growing process. Keep your frustration with the child, in the moment, but retain your hope for the grown-up he’ll someday become. The electorate will learn.
6. McCain has been a class act from beginning to end. To a fault. Yes, there are narratives to the contrary. They seem to be true, because they are repeated so often. They have been repeated so often, because they needed to be. That’s the funny thing about class…down in the marrow of their bones, people truly appreciate it, but skin-deep, they’ll abandon it pretty quickly when it’s convenient. Class makes the mistake of making itself a costless enemy.
7. Tomorrow’s another day. We had to get this out of our system. Because we are not color blind. The people who make the most noise about desiring an era of color-blindness, are the ones who least desire to see it come about. This is intuitively obvious to everyone paying attention: A white guy named “Barack Hussein Obama” who’d never accomplished anything of note, with a menagerie of America-hating asshole friends, wouldn’t even have gotten this thing out of the gate. Yeah, go ahead and crucify me, Ferarro was right. Leave me alone — go take it up with the people who decided that way, for the reasons they did. Your issue is with them.
8. President Obama will be the most powerful President ever, since he’s promised absolutely nothing even while promising everything. Truly, he writes on an entirely blank slate as he writes his own legacy. But to repeat Point #1: This too shall pass. He’ll be our commander-in-chief for four years, or eight, and when it’s all over it’ll be another lesson, nothing more. Our country will survive in spite of him.
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To which I might add: “We can stop obsessing about race now. ‘White Guilt,’ such as it is, has been ameliorated. So shut UP, already.”
And I’m not sure how to work this in… but just off the top of my head… Can we also stop with the frickin’ conspiracy theories? There wasn’t any goddamned “voter suppression,” NO “stolen election,” and the Republic’s political processes worked as designed and intended.
- Buck | 11/05/2008 @ 15:39