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...
A needed public service right now, and bound to become moreso as the year becomes more mature, I should say.
I can’t remember where I saw this, but somewhere I saw someone say “democrats won the elections, and they just need to learn to deal with that.” That captures it, I think. Never in the history of sore losers has any loser been quite as sore as these winners.
They never seem to run out of excuses. But who asked them for any? They won. It’s their policies…that is the problem. The policies don’t work. Those are the best policies that don’t work; the lesser policies, do damage. And they know it. If conservatives still ran things, barely significant things, somewhere, it would be all their fault. But unfortunately that isn’t the case. And so there is a wandering maelstrom of blame looking for a home. Like a frenzy of hungry sharks with no meat around, or a wild lightning storm without a ground.
I don’t know where in the world I can find a conservative nearly as bitter and angry as the most tranquil and relaxed liberal right now. They snap at their perceived opponents, they snap at their own, they snap at disinterested bystanders. And you’d better believe everyone is a racist.
So I would expect the twelve points of advice are best implemented — after things have calmed down. Just a bit.
1. Establish honesty in admitting failure.
2. Show faith in a higher power.
3. Assist in surrender of control.
4. Help in taking a personal moral inventory – Liberals absolutely hate this.
5. Encourage admission that the previously held belief was incorrect.
6. Help recovering Obama supporter accept defects in judgment.
7. Help restore humility.
8. Establish a willingness to make amends.
9. Assist the Obamican in giving and finding forgiveness.
10. Help recovering supporter maintain his progress.
11. Help develop an action plan – Democrats love action plans.
12. Encourage recovering lefty to follow through on action plan.
If there was a walking demigod that was the very incarnation of pure disappointment, I’m afraid Barack Obama would be the guy. There simply is no way to establish higher expectations of something, or to depress the threshold of actual delivery any further. He’s become the “Phantom Menace” of Presidents…and if you’re old enough to have possessed awareness of your surroundings back then, you have to remember how angry, bitter and heated things got about that. A 12-step program would have been a soothing tonic to purge the aftertaste from pod-racing and Jar Jar Binks, so it’s easy to see it’ll be needed now with regard to our latest disappointment pandemic.
Poor, poor, bitter, sad, angry, disappointed people. Poor hurting people, with their bruised, bloated, brittle egos. Good luck to you all. Don’t get too angry at everyone else, mkay? Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering…and that, of course, is a path to the Dark Side.
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