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...
Via Gateway Pundit, we managed to find out about the exploits of erstwhile super-secret Republican campaign adviser Albert Arnold Gore Jr., who has been paid massive amounts of money to share his opinions on things and has finally managed to distill the ultimate message from the party we have been told we should presume he’s representing.
As befits the cinematographic auteur of An Inconvenient Truth, Mr Gore’s speech was a rhetorical tour de force.
“We, the human race, are confronting a planetary emergency – a threat to the survival of our civilisation that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here,” he said.
“The Earth has a fever, and the fever is rising. The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself.
“We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.” [emphasis mine]
We are what is wrong. We, as in “the human race.”
You have this issue of ManBearPig, which is all about humanity being a blight on an otherwise pristine landscape. Sometimes the Church of the Scary ManBearPig says the planet is heating up. Sometimes it says it’s cooling down. Sometimes it says it’s simply changing…sometimes it’s because of carbon dioxide, sometimes it’s because of other greenhouse gases, sometimes it’s CFCs — but always always always the cause of it all is — man.
This thing we call “global warming” isn’t about science, it’s about how to look at science. How to cherry-pick little nuggets out of what the scientists might be saying, and from that piece together an indictment against “the human race.” See, it all makes sense now. And we have this secret Republican political operative named Al Gore to thank for pointing it out to us.
In fact, the more evidence we gather, the more sense Al’s tirade against humanity, in fact, makes. We have this other ideologically-dividing event that takes place over here, that is riveted in both the God-versus-Not-God and Guns-versus-Not-Guns splits…and isn’t that interesting. The Not-God people say that we God people are self-destructive because we seek protection against life’s daily challenges from some deity that isn’t really there, instead of relying on ourselves. Except the Not-God people tend, overwhelmingly, to be Not-Gun people as well. Meaning when trouble’s on the town you’re supposed to head for the hills…or dial 911…maybe both. On the other side of the fence, out of ten God people, nine of those will be Gun people — probably more. So it seems this fails. Believing in God is all about believing in yourself, both in theory and in practice.
But getting back to this stealth Republican political operative Al Gore. He makes good sense here, and his proposal for a Republican vs. Democrat theme for next year seems a lot more potent than any other I’ve heard thus far. I mean, think on this long and hard, what he has said. Go through issue by issue by issue…all the things about which tighty-righties and lefty-loosies are doing their arguing.
It stays consistent, what he said, does it not? We really do have one ideological camp that says humanity is worth something, like among other things, a vigorous defense involving deadly force if necessary…and another ideological camp that says no, we aren’t worth any such thing.
Let’s take Al Gore’s advice, I say. Let’s have an election about that. Quit beatin’ around the bush…so to speak.
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