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 can promise you one thing right here and now about the “take my $20” lady, Keli Carender. I can promise you that if I went into a crowded room anywhere and got the microphone, and my speech started with “this is all about two competing philosophies” or something like that — which is a good intro to about ninety percent of all the things I’d like to say — there is no way I’ll have the crowd cheering for me, twenty dollar bill or no twenty dollar bill. Typically, I start speeches out that way just before people get tired of listening to them.
Like my uncle used to tell me: “There are two kinds of people in this world, those who want to divide everyone into groups of people, and those who don’t.”
He was right about that, but perhaps not for the reasons he thought. Once people start to make a living off their weaknesses, once “need is the coin of the realm” as Ayn Rand put it — those who are well-stocked in that coin are the first to balk at any such exercise in taxonomy. They want everyone to be the same. It’s how they make their living. Beats the hell out of working.
Well, TPM Muckraker is having none of it. By which I mean…they came up with a meaningful difference between taxing the bejeezus out of us, and just walking up and taking our twenty dollar bills out of our hands, thereby credibly accusing Ms. Carender of engaging in a deceptive and invalid straw-man argument?
No. They just took note of how the democrat congressman smacked down Ms. Carender with his snappy comeback, “winning” the argument. Or how he would’ve, rather, if only their fantasy had come true.
To [Washington State Congressman Norm] Dicks’ credit, he did have the beginnings of a good response in turning down the money: “I can’t accept a contribution like that.” The problem was that his delivery, perhaps thrown off by the cheering Tea Party types, was too weak and apologetic. If he’d been a little more sarcastic, it would have been a great snappy comeback.
So this all-important health care debate, about how to manage a seventh or a sixth of our nation’s economy, some $2 or $3 trillion worth of transactions of goods and services…comes down to snappy comebacks. Guess that’s what we get for putting the kids in charge. This is a fate that naturally awaits us when people walk into voting booths with iPod buds in their ears.
*Sigh*. Some “muckraker.”
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