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...
I really don’t get it.
And then, although I didn’t say anything about it at the time, there’s this…
It’s like they’re trying to ad-lib something from the The Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations (L.I.A.R.): “In my opinion, you will be very fortunate to get this person to work for you” or “whatever task he undertakes, he will be fired with enthusiasm.”
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Why Do democrats Say Such Weird, Strange Things?
Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! I know!!! [waving hand frantically] Is it because they’re pathological narcissists? Or because they’re mentally and emotionally stuck in their early teens? Or is it because those are basically the same thing?
I’ve spent quite a bit of time around early-teenagers lately — my friends’ kids are hitting that age — and they display a very Clintonesque attitude towards the truth. It’s not that they’re lying, exactly… it’s like their circuits don’t really process time linearly, or their glands override their internal chronometers, or something, and so they tell you these whopping, bald-faced lies, and will stick with them in the face of mounds of evidence, and then instead of admitting they were wrong, they’ll sulk for a day or two. They’re able to act, in other words, like they’re personally offended that you caught them lying, because to them it doesn’t feel like a lie — they’re not rationalizing, they’re not post-hoc justifying, they’re just telling the emotional truth as it appears to them right now…. and if that contradicts the factual truth of events in the real world, well that’s just too bad.
And since Dems’ supporters are equally childish, they take this attitude as a badge of honor — “Clinton’s so passionate,” they say, when we catch him (or her) in another whopper. [And it is always we who do the catching — any liberal who has ever remarked on a Dem politician’s struggles with the truth is very soon a new-minted conservative].
- Severian | 11/05/2012 @ 06:22“…emotional truth…”
Hmmm…yes, this is food for thought. That feeling of “if it isn’t true, it damn well ought to be.” I recall running into this, most consistently when pointing out the unemployment rate was down-there during George Bush’s presidency, and way-up-here during Obama’s. There’s a lot of topic shift and nebulous screeching going on in the wake of that, but the one thing you can’t get out of them is a concession that 10.1 is greater than 4.6.
- mkfreeberg | 11/05/2012 @ 08:07Well, I know that *I* will be firing someone with enthusiasm on Tuesday.
- nightfly | 11/05/2012 @ 13:35the one thing you can’t get out of them is a concession that 10.1 is greater than 4.6.
Oh yes, I think you have about 600 comments in your archive somewhere illustrating that little truth….
Which is a perfect illustration of the general case. Liberals and clever teenagers come off as smarmy, deceitful little shits in arguments, because for teenagers and liberals there’s no such thing as a freestanding fact. It’s all contextualized — why yes, two plus two does equal four, but only because the hegemonic patriarchial power structure decreed that math must be done that way, because that’s the way that best maintains their sociocultural dominance….
And who’s to say that’s even wrong? Math — the pure, abstract Thing — has to be true in some noumenal or metaphysical sense in order to work, but neither I nor the clever teenager could possibly articulate how…. and so, of course, the clever teenager “wins” the argument, because I have no coherent response. I can deflate his emotional high by asking him to build a bridge with non-patriarchial mathematics, but sadly politics doesn’t work that way…. and so a clever teenager who gets off on “winning” arguments turns to lefty politics, and another virtue junkie is born.
- Severian | 11/05/2012 @ 14:10