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...
Something to embiggen even the most unembiggenable of brains:
Among many other things, this shows my country has been getting a bad rap (or at least strongly suggests it). We haven’t been hoarding wealth, keeping it away from others; if anything, we have been leading the way.
There’s a fascinating little psychological twist going on with this blurb at the end about “green technology.” The associated fad seems to have the effect of fooling people into thinking they’re supporting human progress while they’re really opposing it.
The US of A is called out at 2:36, it’s a medium-large yellow dot. Did you see where it ended up at the end? How many orange blobs are clustered to its immediate left…which direction are they moving…and does that look to you like a not-so-friendly competition. This big blob of orange dots tightens considerably between 3:09 and 3:18 — you have to squint to see it — but that’s where the Maastricht Treaty is enacted, forming the European Union. And, yes, just as he says “now” the big yellow circle is bobbing leftward, you’re not imagining it.
Looks a little bit like…I would say, exactly like…a fox & a herd of hounds. Perhaps I’m paying this part of it more attention than I should, but it is the span of what is happening in the here-and-now. And the outcome isn’t looking too good for the fox.
Hat tip to blogger friend Buck.
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Good points, Mark. And now you make me want to go back and study it further.
What is interesting is that the creating of wealth demands that it help others create wealth as well.
Microsoft did not become an economic powerhouse simply because people wanted a PC to play Spider Solitaire with. PC’s created exponential wealth first by making other businesses more efficient and secondly creating almost limitless spinoff markets for other products.
It is also a fact that prosperous, modernizing and advancing countries have the most and best resources for cleaning and improving their environments.
http://www.thecompostfiles.blogspot.com
- Moshe Ben-David | 12/24/2010 @ 10:59It is also a fact that prosperous, modernizing and advancing countries have the most and best resources for cleaning and improving their environments.
Have you ever noticed that nobody ever seems to get around to examining what the environment is like in Third-World or various ex-Soviet countries?
- cylarz | 12/24/2010 @ 13:11Go back and watch it again.
You will see China, India, etc. start to take off in 1978
1978 is the year that China opened its borders and also the year that America started offshoring.
They would not be where they are at if it were not for offshoring
And as we continue to offshore, I believe we will end up where they were at.
Virgil
- vbierschwale | 12/24/2010 @ 20:38http://www.KeepAmericaAtWork.com