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...
Jonathan Chait: Restore Saddam Hussein back to power.
Up until now, this has been a joke. A sarcastic one. Like, okay mister wise guy, whaddya think we should do, put Saddam back in? Now we got Chait saying we should look at doing exactly that.
I’m still the opposite. You know that joke about the lawyers in the bottom of the lake? Whaddya call five of them…a good start? That’s how I see Saddam right now. The fucker’s a good start. If our execution has been flawed, let’s do a detailed post-mortem on everything. And then let’s test the post-mortem process by taking down the next asshole, and the next one and the next one. Keep practicing until we get it right.
Our situation with sociopathic world dictators who are possibly dealing arms to terrorists, or trying to get into the position of doing so…is exactly the same as our situation with people talking on their cell phones. Or people playing their car stereos way too loud. Or women walking dogs. Or kids on razor scooters. Or four-wheel-drive trucks driven by people who live in the city and don’t need 4WD. Or people buying lottery tickets when the jackpot is over 50 mil. It’s exactly the same as those, albeit more lethal…
There are too fucking many of them. There are so many representations of the one class, it’s a form of pollution. The damage done by the whole, is greater than the sum of the parts.
And so allowing for the whole “Saddam was not a threat” thing and the “Iraq was better off under him” thing…and I’m allowing those only hypothetically, and only with the snarkiest of sneers…I must call Mr. Chait’s attention to the issue of flooding a market already flooded. Murderous dictators all the world over, venomous vipers all across the world’s stage, are so damn plentiful in 2006 that we need to start charging a license fee for applicants. Just nevermind the danger — or threat — posed by each one of them. They’re overcrowding us.
Really, if I wanted to become a tinpot dictator and start selling WMDs to terrorists…I’d be worried sick about starting a new career in a saturated market. I’d probably name my banana-republic country “AAAAA” so it would be listed in the terrorist yellow pages first. Chait has shown himself to be blissfully unaware of the problem at hand, without even trying to.
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