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...
We Need More Adjectives!
Suspending no less than twenty officers in the San Francisco Police Department, Police Chief Heather Fong commented in a joint statement with Mayor Gavin Newsom that the punishment was being taken in response to a video whose content was “immature and vulgar to sexist, racist and homophobic.” Newsom commented separately that the videos were “a series of vignettes, skits, that are some of the most egregious skits I’ve seen.”
It seems the home video was made without any intention of airing it outside of the department. Someone within the department, “snitched.” That last word is mine. Nobody in the story has used it, to my knowledge, but it does seem to be an apt description of what happened here.
Here at House of Eratosthenes, when the time is right, we call things immature and egregious and sexist and vulgar, and even racist and homophobic. But we don’t form such opinions because others have told us to. We form opinions, here, based on facts, which means we like to see the raw data for ourselves.
Therefore, leaving uncommented-upon the question of whether or not the video is egregi– oh, hell, you know, all them fancy adjectives up there — I’d just like to say this. It is of great concern to me, how much easier it is to dig up this denunciation of the videos, which the officials of San Francisco would obviously like every two-legged mammal within broadcast distance to adopt as their own. Compared to, how breathtakingly difficult it is to find the actual footage, which, obviously, you need to do if you want to form your own opinion.
Okay, not breathtakingly. This is the Age of Google. But the point is, for a society in which everone wants to claim credit for forming their own individual opinion, it sure is a helluva lot easier to “download” someone else’s opinion, than it is to get the raw data so you can form your own. Here is your link.
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