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...
During the campaign, [Mitt] Romney frequently criticized Obama for foolishly attempting to make common cause with the Kremlin, and repeatedly referred to Russia as “our number one geopolitical foe.”
Many observers found this fixation strange, and Democrats tried to turn it into a punchline…in an October debate, [Pres. Barack] Obama sarcastically mocked his opponent’s Russia rhetoric. “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” the president quipped at the time.
That line still chafes Robert O’Brien, a Los Angeles lawyer and friend of Romney’s who served as a foreign policy adviser.
“Everyone thought, Oh my goodness that is so clever and Mitt’s caught in the Cold War and doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” O’Brien said. “Well guess what. With all of these foreign policy initiatives — Syria, Iran, [Edward] Snowden — who’s out there causing problems for America? It’s Putin and the Russians.”
Not sure what Romney’s role is from here-on-out. If there isn’t going to be one for him, then whatever vindication comes about from this, would be functionally meaningless.
I’d like to think of it as a slap in the face, not quite so much to Obama, as to this weird fatalistic “low information voter and proud of it” cultural leitmotif upon which He was drawing with that “1980’s called” comeback. Just act apathetic and surly against any unwelcome observation, concern or inquiry that comes along, and everything will all turn out alright and you can sort of “myeh” your way through life. I guess we’re all like that at some time or another. I’m occasionally fighting that battle with my sixteen-year-old. Trying to get it across that some things are real problems, and have to be anticipated. Tough sell.
It is disconcerting, to say the least, to see our sitting President showing the same ignore-it-away attitude…during a live, televised debate. That’s a sign that a cultural disease has taken hold. Hope now we’re on the mend, or will be soon.
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“…and you can sort of “myeh” your way through life.”
It’s been my observation that “pensive” uh…um…er…, liberally strewn amongst and between every tersely enunciated “The Paper Chase” Houseman modeled sentence, is the “new” language.
Subsequent “intellectual” discourse style follows that of a conversation between females of “The Gilmore Girls”.
“myeh” has officially been replace with “meh” in “The Week”, and other “hipster” distractions desperately struggling for prominence in the “pop” bucket of crabs.
HuffPo is currently soliciting votes (early and often) for the “pop” status” (they call it hotness) only ever attained by The National Inquirer in the US. Historically, I’m fairly sure PuffHo was the shark AOL “service” jumped.
- CaptDMO | 09/07/2013 @ 06:09Errata:
- CaptDMO | 09/08/2013 @ 06:31The supplanting of “Myeh” with “”meh” attributed to “The Week” magazine cited above should have been attributed to The New York Times Magazine (Sunday). We regret the error.
As in, “The meh list,” described as…
I see this is a quote, backed up with a hyperlink to a Boston Globe location that returns a 404 error.
Meh.
- mkfreeberg | 09/08/2013 @ 06:40Pro tip to Teh Awesome: Just because we’re not fighting the Russians anymore doesn’t mean they’re our friends.
- Rich Fader | 09/08/2013 @ 12:33