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...
That’s the Wright Fiasco, as in Jeremiah, as in Barack “Don’t You Mention His Middle Name Anymore” Obama. When Ace is good, he is very very good:
What the Media (The People I Trust To Make Decisions) Decided for Me about Wright
1. Wright’s anti-semitic, anti-American, hardcore Marxist radical hatred was entirely occluded from Obama, the world, and most especially the NYT until yesterday. It came as a complete shock to one and all, and no one should hold it against Obama that he cultivated a mutually advantageous political partnership with a Nazi for 20 years. Now he’s “repudiated” the Nazi, and we all know that you can consort with Nazis for almost all of your adult life and then simply “repudiate” them at a press availability and the issue goes away entirely.
2. Obama’s 20 year political partnership with Wright may raise questions about his judgment, but it is wrongful for his political opponents to raise such questions in campaign ads. Some questions, it seems, are properly raised, but silently, in deep personal meditation, perhaps on an alpine hill while reading Rilke. Certainly we do not need to audibly ask questions about a presidential candidate. That’s just hurtful and corrosive of our political process, which relies, at its core, of utter trust in our political leaders without question.
And…more.
H/T: Rachel.
Update: The Anchoress notices more-or-less the same thing…
…the man keeps running his open sore of a mouth and the press keeps saying, “home run!” while trying to downplay what the rest of us see and hear with our lying eyes and ears.
Soledad O’Brien, quite by accident, points out the problem:
He was funny, he was witty. This is a guy who’s got two masters and his doctorate in divinity. Here is a guy who speaks five languages, they took pains in his introduction to point out all his accomplishments.
This points me down a little bit of a tangent, but it’s a worthy tangent to pursue.
I’ve often thought that the human experiment, should it be thought of as a success at all and allowed to run its course, has staggered only a fraction of a percent closer to the goal it is supposed to reach prior to Armageddon than it was at Creation. Our demise could, therefore, be millions of years off, with our performance so sluggish it must be measured across Jurassic dimensions of time.
What goal would your Selected Deity have in mind for us that is lifted so loftily above all we have achieved since the day we discovered fire…or bit into the apple? A far simpler one than you might think: The capacity to embrace education, and humility, at the same time.
I continue to see sheepskins paraded before my eyes, not to instill genuine confidence that a particular individual is strongly tethered to truth, wisdom, stability and competence — but rather to lift that individual above the heavy fog of legitimate criticism.
Higher education will be a badge of shame before this trend has run its course. It’ll be widely recognized that if you haven’t said anything stupid, you have no need to brag about a Master’s, Bachelor’s or Ph.D. Those who are held in the highest esteem will be the ones who are clean, or perceived to be clean, of any such disgracing blackhead or pockmark. Those who have them, will keep quiet about them, and beg any who know about them to stay equally silent. The diploma will be reduced to a skeleton in the closet.
It’ll happen in my lifetime. If this keeps up, I swear it will.
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