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...
Rottweiler brings us a link to a story that ought to be truly amazing and depressing…but, on the plus side, as he points out it looks like we can declare racism officially dead.
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”
And I’ll bet you thought you had to have an education to become a county commissioner. Mr. Price was then advised that Mr. Mayfield had not yielded the floor, and could he please allow his fellow commissioner to continue with his comments.
Oh wait, no, that’s not what happened at all.
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
When I think back to my professional career in network security, how we’d go back and forth debating the merits of a “black list” of network ports or web URLs versus a “white list”…oh, mercy me. Glad I wasn’t working in the DFW area, I guess.
As the story continues, it looks like we have a clue as to what might have set things off here, and what needs to be fixed to make everything all white again:
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”
Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all. [emphasis mine]
Evidently, the panel of esteemed county commissioners aren’t quite grown-up enough to handle that just yet. Without having met Commissioner Price, I can’t really guarantee the meeting would stay “on track” if you closeted those cameras, perhaps putting a courtroom sketch artist in their place. But it’s something worth trying…and I think I can promise if the cameras do stay, he’ll become outraged at quite a few other things. Whether his future outbursts will make more sense than this one, is anybody’s guess.
Thing I Know #52. Angry people who demand things, don’t stop being angry when their demands are met.
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