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...
It’s all about helping mankind? Then an inexplicable viewpoint, one that has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years, must need a re-think:
A student at one of my talks on the nonprofit sector asked if I could name a for-profit company that was making a difference on the scale that nonprofits do. I said I’d be hard-pressed to name one that wasn’t.
Our youth are growing up with the strange notion that the only way to make a big difference in this world, or to be of service, is to work for a nonprofit organization, or become the next Bill Gates and establish a private foundation, or to start some kind of “social enterprise,” often without any understanding of what that means.
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What a loss to humanity it would have been if [Steve] Jobs had dedicated the last 25 years of his life to figuring out how to give his billions away, instead of doing what he does best.
Following that last sentence, it gets interesting. RTWT. Thanks to Instapundit.
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This is the problem with a philosophy too complex to fit on bumper stickers (and hey, whaddaya know? This “we’re so much smarter than you” sanctimony is kinda fun. May I continue with it? Thanks!).
Lowering taxes IS much more effective at growing an economy, but to see why that’s so, you have to follow a chain of reasoning out three or four steps… maybe even do a little math. Any one of which steps can be short-circuited by claiming “so, you just want the rich to have more, eh?” (It seems to be a requirement of leftist argumentation that each step contain some nugget of emotional crack). Same thing with the “difference-making” nature of private enterprise, etc. It’s not insta-validating, though, so a certain emotional type simply won’t stick with it.
[Although it’s really odd if you think about it. I mean, the idea that employment — as opposed to nonprofit “philanthropy” — is more economically beneficial in the long run is rather Keynesian, isn’t it? Aren’t we in effect proposing that a regular paycheck will “stimulate” more economic activity than a one-off charity donation, or even a series of subsistence-level subsidies like those provided by the Peace Corps? Isn’t that economic activity, in turn, in the same ballpark as the famous Keynesian “multiplier” that our leftists kept going on about back in the Stimulus days?
Chalk that up as another frustrating thing about dealing with leftists — each one of their “arguments” is hermetically sealed off from the rest. They have these pat little “cases” for each point on their agenda, but nothing glues them all together but sanctimony].
- Severian | 10/17/2011 @ 06:02