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...
Surreal…it plays out like parody.
Seriously. If you told me it came straight off Saturday Night Live, the only thing missing would be some suppressed giggling at the end. Everything else is there and it fits like a hand in a glove. But no, it isn’t parody, it’s real.
From Allahpundit, who once again provides the link to the spot where these people can pay some extra taxes. Every single nickel they want to, any time they choose.
Has it been, perhaps, a little too easy to become a millionaire? Have we got people rolling in cash who are too stupid to click open a link on the web and fill out an online form? I really don’t know the answer to that…but I do know one thing: We’ve got a lot of millionaires in this country who think the rest of us are complete idiots.
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A game I like to play is, “where did American culture go wrong?” Guess I’m a masochist. Anyway, my current favorite answer is “sometime around 1960, when we discovered hypocrisy but forgot about sanctimony.”
Used to be, people were all kinds of hypocritical. You know, back in the old Mad Men days. You preached certain things — tolerance, justice, a fair deal– while being the ruthless Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. And that was ok…. because there was an unwritten corollary to this unwritten rule: you weren’t allowed to be a sanctimonious fuckwidget about it.
It’s the same rule that allows politicians, then as now, to praise the American public school system to the skies (and take a buttload of cash from the teachers’ unions) while sending their own kids to Choate and Andover. The difference was, back then they were lying, and the public knew they were lying… but that was ok, because the unspoken understanding was “hey, if I were in that situation, I’d do it too…. and I’d expect the same kid-gloves treatment.”
These days, we’ve forgotten the latter half of that implicit bargain. These days, people feel free to get all sanctimonious about stuff and trumpet their moral superiority to the skies, with no expectation they’ll ever be called on their own behavior. I’m not entirely sure why this is — my guess is because it’s just too useful to paint the Republicans as “billionaires for Bush” even when you’re running an actual billionaire (cf. Kerry, John, 2004) — but whatever. Point is, somehow the shame circuit has been broken, and so people feel free to act like self-righteous douchetards even though they themselves have no intention of living up to their own words….
[forgive the profanity and general incoherence — it’s been a long damn day here in liberaltopia and I’m just sick and tired of it all]
- Severian | 06/08/2011 @ 16:56funny thing, i bet those millionaires have hidden their income pretty well, so their taxes will increase very little, meanwhile us working stiffs will shoulder the burden. How about we just have you give everything over 2 million to the government. All those boats, planes, ranches, 2nd, 3rd, 4th houses go. then let’s see how you like it when you really feel the pain like the working bunch does!
- Rob in Katy | 06/09/2011 @ 20:26The divide between “Rich Republicans and Working Stiff democrats” has been thoroughly corrupted. The democrats have all these seething resentments with — not “Wall Street” Republicans, but rather, red-state Republicans who put in a full day making a living with their hands, then head out to bars, wearing caps on their heads and jeans on their butts, with circular wear marks in their back pockets where they carry their chaw. And if Mike Rowe hasn’t already interviewed them, he will, or he’d like to. They make things people actually use. There’s your target of left-wing hatred. Guys with “CAT” and “Thudpucker” on their hats. Not the so-called millionaires.
You know where I think the dividing line is in 2011? It isn’t rich versus poor, or high-income versus low-income. It isn’t college-educated versus high-school. It’s producers versus paper-pushers…there’s where you’re going to find your relatively clean, low-exception rule-of-thumb. If you’re a legal citizen and you produce durable goods that people actually purchase of their own free will because they can find a use for it — you’re probably voting Republican, and if you’re not, then the democrats don’t appreciate your support and they don’t give a rat’s ass about you. They want votes from illegal aliens, lawyers, bureaucrats, union officials, government hacks, and shrinks. People who don’t actually produce anything. Overhead.
- mkfreeberg | 06/09/2011 @ 20:35