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...
Dashboard is showing 8,172 posts, that’s like what…680 a year or something? That would come to 55, 56 a month. Seems wrong. Or at least, misleading…these days it’s more like single-digits a month.
The presidential election this year is partially responsible for that, it’s been a particularly stupid one. “Trump didn’t actually say that” “The media are lying to you and so is Hillary”…how many times can you write that. Also, the career has been taking off and there are homeowner responsibilities that didn’t exist for us 2 or 3 years ago.
The 26,436 number by “comments” is a more impressive figure. I wonder what that is. “Doesn’t seem like something George Washington would have said” or some such? Perhaps there is a Pareto Principle with the comments…in fact, I’m sure of it. Eighty percent of the total intelligence & insight wrapped up in twenty percent of the comments.
Well, the clarity we manage to harvest from the crop of arguing, I guess it’s always like that isn’t it. It’s messy, but it’s necessary. People tend to accomplish the least when they spend lots of effort avoiding conflict, I notice. This leads to keeping secrets, which leads to idleness…failure to achieve the mission…and, ironically, failure to avoid conflict.
Looking very much forward to the arguing that will be happening next year. Trump Republicanism in the White House, Republican-Republicanism in both houses of Congress. That would actually be a bad thing if those were all the same. But, they’re not. The resulting conflict is likely to reveal some things that should have been revealed, or at least elevated to discussion, a long time ago. It’ll be interesting to see.
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Congrats! Thanks for fighting the good fight, and providing such great material and a community where folks can discuss it. I hope you’re actually drinking all those suds in the picture in celebration. As George Washington most definitely said, “party on, dude!”
- Severian | 11/12/2016 @ 08:25Ah, Rogue Nation beer…the story of a liberal brewery in a liberal city that ran its business like fascists and its brewery like a concentration camp and paid the price with dissolution. The benefit? Lots of fantastic brewers starting their own brands, free of the shackles of fanatic lib despotism.
Drink up, and know you’re fighting the good fight.
- P_Ang | 11/12/2016 @ 08:41“Congrats! Thanks for fighting the good fight” “Drink up, and know you’re fighting the good fight.”
Dang it, I need to stop reading Sevs comments before posting 😛
- P_Ang | 11/12/2016 @ 08:49Hate to do this, Sev, but it was Lincoln who said that.
- nightfly | 11/14/2016 @ 09:54You mocked Sev, you medieval dickweed!
- P_Ang | 11/14/2016 @ 09:57I admit it; I didn’t really know who said it. But Socrates did say, “true knowledge is acknowledging that you know nothing.” Dude… that’s US!
- Severian | 11/14/2016 @ 14:55